AusUKB2024
The 1st Australian UK Biobank Research Symposium
About The Symposium
The 1st Australian UK Biobank Research Symposium will be held in-person on February 7 and 8, 2024, at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The goal of the Symposium is to showcase a unique research resource that is available for researchers around the world, through the presentation of cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines.
The Symposium will be preceded by a UK Biobank Instruction Day on Tuesday February 6th, where participants will learn how to navigate the UK Biobank data resource and how to perform large-scale analyses in epidemiology, genomics and imaging.
We welcome you all to Brisbane in the summer!
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Sir Rory Collins is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Clinical Trial Service Unit within the University of Oxford, the head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. His work has been in the establishment of large-scale epidemiological studies of the causes, prevention and treatment of heart attacks, other vascular disease, and cancer, while also being closely involved in developing approaches to the combination of results from related studies. Since September 2005, he has been the Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of the UK Biobank, a prospective study of 500,000 British people aged 40–69 at recruitment.
Sir Rory Collins is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Clinical Trial Service Unit within the University of Oxford, the head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health and a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. His work has been in the establishment of large-scale epidemiological studies of the causes, prevention and treatment of heart attacks, other vascular disease, and cancer, while also being closely involved in developing approaches to the combination of results from related studies. Since September 2005, he has been the Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of the UK Biobank, a prospective study of 500,000 British people aged 40–69 at recruitment.
Thomas Nichols is the Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics at the Oxford Big Data Institute, in the Nuffield Department of Population Health. He is a statistician with a solitary focus on modelling and inference methods for brain imaging research. He has a unique background, with both industrial and academic experience, and diverse training including computer science, cognitive neuroscience and statistics. He is a developer of both the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) and FMRIB Software Library (FSL) tools, and is well known for bringing advanced statistical methodology to brain imaging and making it accessible to non-statisticians. His current work includes methodology for population scale neuroimaging data, neuroimaging meta-analysis and neuroimaging genetics.
Thomas Nichols is the Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics at the Oxford Big Data Institute, in the Nuffield Department of Population Health. He is a statistician with a solitary focus on modelling and inference methods for brain imaging research. He has a unique background, with both industrial and academic experience, and diverse training including computer science, cognitive neuroscience and statistics. He is a developer of both the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) and FMRIB Software Library (FSL) tools, and is well known for bringing advanced statistical methodology to brain imaging and making it accessible to non-statisticians. His current work includes methodology for population scale neuroimaging data, neuroimaging meta-analysis and neuroimaging genetics.