APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS The Society for Social Medicine & UK Molecular Epidemiology Group Joint one-day meeting 17th May 2005, 10.00am to 4.30pm GENES, POPULATIONS AND DISEASE: GENOMIC, PROTEOMIC AND METABONOMIC APPROACHES IN EPIDEMIOLOGY Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre, Leeds University Business School, Leeds, LS2 9JT Aim: This meeting will draw together people with backgrounds in laboratory science, epidemiology, biostatistics, public health and clinical medicine among others. The aim of the meeting is to critically address how the new technologies of genomics, proteomics and metabonomics might be best incorporated into population studies. Presentations at the meeting will be made by individuals with either laboratory or epidemiology expertise but with an awareness of the multidisciplinary nature of the audience. Topics: Genomics and Populations; Proteomics and Populations; Metabonomics and Populations; Epidemiological Study Design and the "omics" Technologies; Life-course aspects of Genetic Epidemiology; UK Biobank: a case study; Integrating Biology into Human Genome Epidemiology. Speakers: John Findlay (Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, Leeds, UK), Alison Dunning (Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge), Elaine Holmes (Biological Chemistry, Imperial College, London), George Davey-Smith (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol), Paolo Vineis (Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK), Lyle Palmer (Genetic Epidemiology, University of Western Australia), Paul Burton (Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester). Registration: The cost for registration prior to 30th March is ?65 for SSM and MEG/UKEMS members; ?95 for non-members and ?25 for full-time students. Registration includes coffee, tea and lunch. For registration forms and further details please contact: Jenny Duckmanton, MEG Secretary, 76, Stockton Lane, York YO31 1BN, UK. E-mail: meg- secretariat@tiscali.co.uk Other enquiries to: Prof Chris Wild (c.p.wild@leeds.ac.uk) or Dr Mark Gilthorpe (m.s.gilthorpe@leeds.ac.uk). ---------------------------------------------- Dr Mark S Gilthorpe BSc PhD ILTM Reader in Statistical Epidemiology & Head Biostatistics Unit http://www.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/biostatistics Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics LIGHT, University of Leeds 30/32 Hyde Terrace, Leeds, LS2 9LN Tel:+(44)113 343 1913; Fax:+(44)113 343 1816