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The 2012 Sir Ronald Fisher Lecture

Date/Time: Friday, 13 July 2012, 3:30 pm

Location: Napier Rm G04, Napier Building, North Terrace Campus

Cost: FREE, all welcome.

Professor Peter Donnelly FRS FMedSci will present the 2012 Sir Ronald Fisher Lecture: Statistical and population genetics in the genomic age - opportunities and challenges

Peter Donnelly is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford.

Professor Donnelly currently chairs the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), a large international collaboration studying the genetic basis of more than 20 common human diseases and conditions in over 60,000 people.

The Sir Ronald Fisher Lectures were endowed in 1989 by Emeritus Professor P.A. Parsons AM a former student of Fisher. The series commemorates Fisher's strong association with scientists in Australia and, in particular, with CSIRO and the University of Adelaide.

Contact: Associate Professor Gary Glonek, Email: gary.glonek@adelaide.edu.au, Acting Head of School, School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Business: 08 83133218

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