The Edinburgh-based Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics, generously
sponsored by the Genetics Society, will hold its 19th meeting on 28th
June. Details below.

If you would like to attend please do so here: 
https://tinyurl.com/ACTG19signupsheet

Josephine Pemberton

Edinburgh Alliance for Complex Trait Genetics
19th Meeting - Friday 28th June 2024
Royal Society of Edinburgh
22-26 George Street, EH2 2PQ

>From  13.30 Arrival & registration

Session 1 Chair: Smaragda Tsairidou (Global Academy of Agriculture
and Food Systems)

14.00 welcome

14.05 Athina Spiliopoulou (Usher Institute)

Identifying core genes for complex diseases through genome-wide
aggregation of trans-effects.

14.30  Rongrong Zhao (Roslin Institute)
>From human to cattle: Using machine learning to identify functional
variants across species

14.55  Luke Holman (Napier University)
Phenome-wide variation in the response to sex-specific selection in
Drosophila.

15.20 
Daniel Garrick
(The Helical Company Ltd and School of Agriculture and Environment
Massey University, NZ) Helical: building blocks for every step of
genomic prediction.

15.45 Tea and Coffee

Session 2 Chair:
James Prendergast (Roslin Institute)

16.15 Lizy Mittell (Institute of Ecology and Evolution)
The missing fraction problem when measuring selection.

16.40  Meenu Bhati (Roslin Institute)
Impact of sex on gene expression and regulation across cattle tissues.

17.05 Mark Adams (Psychiatry)
>From hypothesis-free to hypothesis-driven depression genetics.

17.30  Drinks and nibbles.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th'
ann anOilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh
SC005336.

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