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LOGICAL REASONING IN HUMAN GENETICS Course III, Helsinki, 11-15.01.2010
Event Start date: 14 Nov 2009
Event End date: 31 Dec 2009
The course is meant primarily for graduate students and post-docs in human genetics. The course is organized by the Nordic Centre of Excellence in Disease
Genetics (NCoEDG) and Helsinki Biomedical Graduate School (HBGS).

The course content is designed to examine the conceptual, empirical, and theoretical approaches to understanding the complex cause and effect relationships underlying human variation.

Course Faculty:
*Joseph D. Terwilliger, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience (in Psychiatry, in Genetics and Development, and in the Columbia Genome Center), Columbia University, New York, USA; Finland Distinguished Professor, Helsinki University & FIMM
*Kenneth Weiss, PhD, Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Genetics and Science, Technology, and Society, Department of Anthropology, Penn State University, USA
*Patrik Magnusson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
*Markus Perola, MD, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Public Health Genomics, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) Adjunct Professor in Quantitative Genetics, University of Helsinki & FIMM

There will be also several guest lecturers who will be announced later.

How to apply
We will be able to accept only about 50 students for the course and the students will be selected according their applications. Please send the following 3 (three) documents to the teaching assistant Tero Hiekkalinna (tero.hiekkalinna (at) thl.fi) no later than Monday December 7th, 2009.

1. A one-page CV.
2. One page description of your current research projects and what you hope to gain from attending the course.
3. One page recommendation from your current supervisor, and statement that they agree to sponsor the costs of your attendance at the course

Students from NCoEDG centers are free of charge but expected to pay for own travel and accommodation.

Find out more about the course >>

More details about the course, the accommodation options and travel to Helsinki can be found on the course web site >>

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reference: http://www.helsinki.fi/~tsjuntun/LR2010/
Article Id: 316049
Event Start date: 14 Nov 2009
Event End date: 31 Dec 2009
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