Conference Schedule

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

9:00 am – 10:30 am	Session 1 – Gene-environment Interplay (GxE) - I
Dalton Conley	Beyond orchids and dandelions: Testing the 5HTT “risky” allele for evidence of phenotypic capacitance and frequency dependent selection
Monica Uddin	Socioeconomic position modifies the relation between methylation of nervous-system related loci and risk of PTSD in an urban community-based sample
10:30 am – 10:45 am	Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm	Session 2 – Genome-wide Assessments
Dan Belsky	A method to select genomic risk markers from GWAS results: Development & evaluation of a genomic risk score for obesity
Dan Notterman/   John Hobcraft	Genome-wide epigenetic signatures of family environment in 9 year old children
Christopher Dawes	A genome-wide association study of voter turnout
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Session 3 – Gene-environment interplay (rGE)
Pete Hatemi	Are spouses more genetically similar for ideology?
Colter Mitchell	Genes, mothers' relationship instability, and children’s socioemotional wellbeing
Kathryn Paige Harden	Gene-environment interplay in the association between early pubertal timing and delinquency in adolescent girls
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Session 4 – Infant Health and Child Development
Elliot Tucker-Drob	Parenting and early cognitive development
Stephanie Von Hinke	Child height, health and human capital: evidence using genetic markers
George  Wehby	Genetic instrumentation for multiple maternal behavioral effects on infant health using genome-wide association study data
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Happy Hour

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

9:00 am – 10:30 am	Session 1 – Gene-environment Interplay (GxE) - II
Jaime Settle	The effects of exposure to contention on voting: The moderating role of individual differences
Jason Fletcher	GxE in taxation and tobacco use
Jason Boardman	Genome-wide gene-environment interactions for the risk of obesity among young adults
10:30 am – 10:45 am	Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm	Session 2 – Personality and Social Behavior
Dan Benjamin	Genes, cognition, and social behavior
Jan Emmanuel De Neve	Born to lead? A twin design and genetic association study of leadership
Brad Verhulst	Exploring the genetic component of political participation
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Session 3 – Health
Justin Cook	The role of lactose tolerance in pre-colonial development
Jonathan D Daw	Racial inequalities in kidney transplantation
Sarinnapha Vasunilashorn	Apolipoprotein E, health, and mortality in Taiwanese older adults
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Break
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm	Session 4 – Behavior Genetics
Yuxiu Zhang	The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Early Childbearing
Evan Charney	Behavior genetics and post-genomics
Dalton Conley	The equal environments assumption in the post-genomic age: Using misclassified twins to estimate bias in heritability models
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm	Wrap Up

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 ~ Genome-Wide Analysis Workshop for Social Scientists

8:00 am – 8:30 am	Registration
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Lecture 1: Introduction to Genome-Wide Data
9:00 am – 9:30 am	Tutorial 1: Getting Started with the Data
10:00 am – 10:15 am	Break
10:15 am – 11:00 am	Tutorial 2: Data Cleaning Procedures
11:00 am – 12:00 noon	Tutorial 3: Genetic Ancestry and Relatedness Measures
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm	Lunch Break
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm	Lecture 2: Introduction to Genome-Wide Analyses
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm	Break
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm	Tutorial 4: Genome-Wide Association Analysis - Unrelated Samples
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm	Tutorial 5: Genome-Wide Association Analysis - Family-Based
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Practical Application (with exercises)