Apologies for cross-posting. Please kindly contact Prof. Lewis (details below and cc-ed) with any questions regarding the course. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Announcing the 13th MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry SUMMER SCHOOL 18th - 22th June 2012. The SGDP Summer School provides an introduction into the technical and conceptual aspects of genetics and consists of three, parallel 5-day courses involving both lectures and practical sessions in addition to shared lectures from experts in the field. This year’s courses are in: I) Analysis of Genetic Association Studies (Scientific Directors: Cathryn Lewis and Tom Price) II) Introduction to R (Scientific Directors: Leonard Schalkwyk, Matt Davies & Oliver Davis) III) Introduction to Molecular Methods in Functional Genomics (Scientific Directors: Cathy Fernandes and Emma Dempster) Applications are made via our website from 4th January 2012 and require some background information and reasons for applying to the program. Applications will be accepted until courses are full, with a final application date of June 1st. A limited number of bursaries in the form of a reduction in the course fee are available. Deadlines for the bursary applications are February 2012 and April 2012. Further details are available from the web http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/summerschool/si/sgdp/index.html or e-mail any questions to sgdp-summerschool@kcl.ac.uk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Cathryn Lewis Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics, King's College London http://www.kcl.ac.uk/medicine/research/divisions/gmm/sections/clusters /statisticalgenetics.aspx MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, KCL Tel: 44-(0)20-7848-0661. Fax: 44-(0)20-7848-0866 and Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, KCL School of Medicine Tel: 44-(0)20-7188-2601. Fax: 44-(0)20-7188-2585 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]