The Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet herby announce a one-day symposium; State of the Art Biostatistics in Medical Research. The symposium is held in conjunction with the 200-year anniversary celebration of Karolinska Institutet. The symposium takes place on March 26, 2010 in Nobel Forum at Karllinska Institutet and aims to highlight the contribution of biostatistics to medical research. Three themes will be presented: 'Genetic epidemiology', 'Design of epidemiologic studies' and 'High-throughput data analyses'. Invited speakers are: Bianca de Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Wolfgang Huber, EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Heidelberg, Germany Jonathan Marchini, University Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK Ornulf Borgan, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway Simon Tavaré, University of Cambridge, UK Els Goetghebeur, Ghent University, Belgium For program, registration and more information please visit www.meb.ki.se/~biostatsymposium On behalf of the organising committee Marie Jansson You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.