Social Medicine Seminar Programme

Everybody is very welcome to the seminars.

4.00p.m. - 5.00 p.m. in room LG.08, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Road unless otherwise stated.

Oct 1

Dr. Nic Timpson: Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol.

Pigmentation and anthropometry: Sampling in the Pacific and the value of new population cohorts .

Oct 8

Dr. Martin Tobin: Department of Health Sciences and Genetics, University of Leicester.

Genome-wide association studies and prospects for copy number variation association studies.

Oct 15

Dr. Catherine Heeney: Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford.

The social creation of ethical imperatives in collaborative scientific networks.

Oct 22

Professor Stanley Ulijaszek: School of Anthropology, University of Oxford.

Revisiting inequality and obesity.

Oct 29

No seminar - half term

Nov 5

Dr. Jeff Barrett: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge

New adventures in genome-wide association studies.

Nov 12

Professor Ian Craig: Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

Can genetic and pharmacogenetic analysis of major depressive disorder, MDD, provide clues to its aetiology and improved treatment?

Nov 19

Dr. Isabel Oliver: Health Protection Agency South West

Field epidemiology in the Health Protection Agency: building the evidence base for health protection.

Nov 26

Dr. Andrew Jackson: Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine Edinburgh.

Cellular pathways determining human brain size.

Dec 3

Dr. Jane Meyrick: School of Life Sciences, University of the West of England.

Can evidence change the world; discuss?

Dec 10

Dr. John Odling-Smee: School of Anthropology, University of Oxford.

How cultural niche construction co-directs human evolution.