IBC Welcome

08:30

08:30	Session 11a: Invited Session: Experimental Design for Microarrays
	Chair: Linda Haines, University of Cape Town, South Africa

08:30	Session 11b: Invited Session: Recent developments in joint analysis of survival longitudinal data
	Chair: Eva Petkova, New York University, United States

08:30	Session 11c: Spatial Modelling
	Chair: Avner Bar-Hen, Université Paris Descartes, France

08:30	Session 11d: Biometrical Methods
	Chair: Graham Hepworth, The University of Melbourne, Australia

08:30	Session 11e: Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials
	Chair: Laurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Israel

08:30	Session 11f: Correlated Data in Epidemiology
	Chair: Thomas Lumley, University of Washington, United States

08:30

Session 11g: Poster Session 7: Biometry

10:15

Coffee Break

10:45

10:45	Session 12a: Invited Session: Statistical analysis of networks
	Chair: Chris Glasbey, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, United Kingdom

10:45	Session 12b: Special Session: A Editor's Choice of Recent Papers in Pharmaceutical Statistics
	Chair: Michael O'Kelly, Quintiles, Ireland

10:45	Session 12c: Epidemiological Methods III
	Chair: Michel Chavance, INSERM U780, France

10:45	Session 12d: Mixed and Random Effect Models I
	Chair: Maria Durban, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

10:45	Session 12e: Agricultural Applications
	Chair: Jeff Wood, The Australian National University, Australia

10:45	Session 12f: Model Uncertainty and Diagnostics
	Chair: Peter Macdonald, McMaster University, Canada

10:45

Session 12g: Poster Session 8: Bayesian Methods

12:30

Lunch

14:00

14:00	Session 13a: Invited Session: Frailty models for correlated family data
	Chair: Juni Palmgren, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

14:00	Session 13b: Special Session: Showcase of papers published in JABES
	Chair: Carl Schwarz, Simon Fraser University, Canada

14:00	Session 13c: Bioinformatics
	Chair: Claus Mayer, Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, United Kingdom

14:00	Session 13d: Clustering and Classification
	Chair: Rodger White, Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

14:00	Session 13e: Survival Analysis I
	Chair: Gilbert Mackenzie , University of Limerick , Ireland
	Cure (Split Population) Models in Parametric Survival Analysis Rebecca Shanmugam, Medical Research Council, South Africa A Measure of Explained Variation of Survival Models Janez Stare, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Exploiting a Gold Standard to Compare Nonparametric Estimators of Survival in the Presence of Truncated Data Mauro Gasparini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Non-PH Survival Modelling with Frailty and Structured Dispersion Joseph Lynch, University of Limerick, Ireland Truncated Mixture Models for Mortality and Survival up to Weaning of Calves Lucas Lopez Segovia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

14:00	Session 13f: Statistics in Epidemiological Research
	Chair: John Neuhaus, University of California, San Francisco, United States

14:00

Session 13g: Poster Session 9: Regression Methods

15:45

Coffee Break

16:15

16:15	Session 14a: Invited Session: Advances in dynamic regimes and sequential treatments
	Chair: Erica Moodie, McGill University, Canada

16:15	Session 14b: Microarray II
	Chair: Terry Therneau, Mayo Clinic, United States

16:15	Session 14c: Bayesian Methods
	Chair: Bas Engel, Wageningen University Research, Netherlands

16:15	Session 14d: Models and Methods for Ecological Research
	Chair: Kevin Dawson, Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom

16:15	Session 14e: Analysis of Genetic Data II
	Chair: Nuala Sheehan, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

16:15	Session 14f: Computational Methods
	Chair: Roger Payne, VSN International, United Kingdom

16:15

Session 14g: Poster Session 10: Epidemiological Research

19:00

Conference Dinner