Celebrating Sue Wilson's 34 years at ANU

A celebration of Professor Sue Wilson's 34 years at ANU will be held on Thursday 11th December 2008 at the ANU. The celebration will involve a day of talks on topics related to Sue's interests and a dinner in the evening.

The program of talks is under development: at this stage, the speakers include Professor Terry Speed, Professor Geoff McLachlan, Professor Patty Solomon, Dr Michael Adena, Dr Conrad Burden and Dr Yvonne Pittelkow. Other contributions to the program are very welcome. A small number of short, contributed talks of up to 30 minutes will be considered. The intention is to arrange the program so that talks on Bioinformatics will be grouped in the afternoon to enable people interested only in Bioinformatic talks to attend part of the celebration.

Pre-dinner drinks and dinner will be held in "The Gods Cafe" at ANU from 6:00pm and the cost will be between $40.00-$50.00 per head. More details on this soon.

Abstracts

Schedule

9.30 - 9.45 Welcome
9.45-10.00 Kaye Basford
"Sue Wilson - Statistician Extraordinaire!"
10.00-10.30 Michael Adena
"My introduction to generalised linear models"

10.30-11.00 Tea

11.00-11.30 Yvonne Pittelkow
"Collaborating over the Decades"
11.30-12.30 Geoff McLachlan
"Use of Mixture Models in Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Applications in Bioinformatics"

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch

2.00 - 2.30 Melanie Bahlo
"Linkage analysis in the high density SNP chip era"
2.30 - 3.00 Conrad Burden
"Alignment-free sequence comparisons using k-word matches"
3.00 - 3.30 Sylvain Foret
"From oligos to socio-genomics via a few simple stats"

3.30 - 4.00 Tea

4.00 - 5.00 Terry Speed
"Some uses of principal components with gene expression and microarray data"

6.00 Dinner