The British, Belgian, French and Netherlands Regions of the International
Biometric Society are organising a joint conference

At the University of Leicester

From Tuesday 5th to Friday 8th April, 2005.

The Invited Programme for the Conference includes:

Opening Keynote Presentation: Bioinformatics

        The Bioinformatics Challenge: are we up for it?
                Wally Gilks (Medical Research Council, Cambridge UK)

Invited Session 1: Climate Change

        The influence of climate change on the phenology of plants and
animals
                Tim Sparks (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK)

        Analysis of Extremes of Synthetic Sea Surge Data
                Jonathan Tawn & Adam Butler (Lancaster University, UK)

Invited Session 2: Microarrays

        Dense Scatterplots
                Paul Eilers (Leiden University Medical Centre, The
Netherlands)

        Statistical models to correct for saturadtion effects in cDNA
microarrays
                Chris Glasbey & Mizanur Khondoker (Biomathematics and
Statistics, Scotland)

Invited Session 3: Biometry in the EU

        Modelling gene flow at the landscape level
                Antoine Messean (INRA, France)

        Quantification of transmission of viruses in livestock with and
without vaccination
                Mart de Jong (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)

        Statistical challenges for the GenoEUtwin project
                Hein Putter (Leiden University Medical Centre, The
Netherlands)

Closing Keynote Presentation: Biometry in Society

        Disputed Science and Government Policy
                Robert Curnow (University of Reading, UK)

Full details of the invited programme, and further details of the
conference, including registration and accomodation information, are
available on the British Region web-site (see Regional Conference in April
2005) at:

        http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~rab/biometrics/british.html

To complete the scientific programme for the conference we are now calling
for contributed papers and posters on any biometrical topics.

Abstracts should be noe more than one side of A4, including title, names of
all authors (with email address of presenting author), affiliation of all
authors and any references.  Please also state your preference for an oral
paper or poster presentation (or no preference!).  Abstracts should be set
to the Secretary to the Scientific Programme Committee, Andrew Mead,
preferably by email ([log in to unmask]) as either Word or plain text
files.  Alternatively they can be posted to him at:

        Andrew Mead
        IBS Multi-Regional Conference 2005
        Warwick HRI
        University of Warwick
        Wellesbourne
        Warwick
        CV35 9EF
        United Kingdom

All abstracts must be received by January 31st, and authors will be notified
regarding acceptance by February 14th.