Applied Statistics in Animal and Plant Sciences.
Joint meeting of Rothamsted Research and the British and Irish Region of the
International Biometric Society
(to mark the retirement of Robin Thompson from official duties at
Rothamsted)
This meeting is being held on Thursday 19th January 2006, in the Fowden
Conference Hall, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts., AL5 2JQ. It has
been organised by Sue Welham ([log in to unmask]) and Frank van den
Bosch ([log in to unmask]) of Rothamsted Research on behalf of
the IBS British and Irish Regional Committee
Please note that although there is no charge for this meeting,
pre-registration is necessary.
If you plan to attend this meeting, please notify Sue Welham
([log in to unmask]) before January 13th 2006.
Session I: (Chair: David Balding (Imperial College))
14.00 Opening Remarks - Joe Perry (President, International
Biometric Society, British and Irish Region)
14.00 - 14.30 REML, Rothamsted and Robin: a Review
Roger Payne (VSN International)
14.30 - 15.00 Statistical interactions between Robin Thompson and
quantitative genetics
Bill Hill (University of Edinburgh)
15.00 - 15.30 Future possibilities in the dissection of quantitative
genetic variation
Chris Haley (Roslin Institute)
15.30 - 16.00 Tea break
Session II: (Chair: Chris Rawlings (Rothamsted Research))
16.00 - 16.30 Colonial Collaborations - applications of REML for plant
improvement
Brian Cullis, Alison Smith (NSW-DPI), Ari Verbyla
(BiometricsSA), Jo Stringer (BSES)
16.30 - 17.00 The challenge of bioinformatics
Chris Glasbey (BioSS)
17.00 - 18.30 Drinks and snacks.
Further details can be viewed at
http://www.maths.qmw.ac.uk/~rab/biometrics/apaps.html
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