The International Imaging Genetics Conferences bring together national and international experts in neuroimaging, genetics, data-mining, visualization and statistics. Targeting physicians and scientific researchers, this annual conference features presentations from investigators world-wide and places emphasis on facilitating in-depth discussions among the participants and presenters. 

Given the known importance of both genetics and environment in brain function, and the role of neuroimaging in revealing brain dysfunction, the synergism of integrating genetics with brain imaging will fundamentally change our understanding of human brain function in disease. To fully realize the promise of this synergy, we must develop novel analytic, statistical, and visualization techniques for this new field. 

The Ninth Annual International Imaging Genetics Conference will be held on January 22^nd and 23^rd, 2013 at the Beckman Center of the National Academy of Sciences in Irvine, CA. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting upcoming event.

Monday, January 22^nd, 2013

Fred Gage, Salk Institute for Biological Studies: "Developmental and regulatory role of transposable elements on brain genes"

Michael Arbib, University of Southern California: “The role of mirror neurons in the development of human empathy”

Daniel Geschwind, UCLA: “Brain transcriptome and development of functional networks in autism and other disorders”

Nicholas Schork, UCSD: "Polygenetic modeling of imaging phenotypes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder"

John Blangero,  Texas Biomedical Research Institute: "The Utility of Whole Genome Sequencing for Identifying Causal Genes Influencing Human Brain Variation"

Andrew Schork, UCSD: "Novel Enrichment Analyses Improve Power of GWAS: Application to PING Imaging Phenotypes"

Fabio Macciardi, University of California, Irvine: “Understanding regulatory elements in psychiatric diseases by deep sequencing”

Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago: "Genetic association analysis and Functional Phenotypes"

Tuesday, January 23^rd, 2013

Kristi Bigos, Lieber Inst. for Brain Development: "The Role of Cytochrome P450s in Brain Function"

James Kennedy and Aristotle Voineskos, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto:  "Disease Risk and Phenotypic Heterogeneity: Imaging-Genetics in Healthy Controls vs. Patient Populations"

Steven Potkin, UC Irvine: “The influence of genes on brain connectivity in schizophrenia”

Theo van Erp, UC Irvine: "Schizophrenia miR-137 Risk Genotype is Associated with DLPFC Hyperactivation"

Daniel Weinberger, Lieber Inst. for Brain Development: TBA

SOLAR Workshop Tuesday afternoon January 23^rd, 2013:

SOLAR is an extensive, flexible software package for genetic variance components analysis, including linkage analysis, quantitative genetic analysis, SNP association analysis (QTN and QTLD), and covariate screening. Operations are included for calculation of marker-specific or multipoint identity-by-descent (IBD) matrices in pedigrees of arbitrary size and complexity, and for linkage analysis of multiple quantitative traits and/or discrete traits which may involve multiple loci (oligogenic analysis), dominance effects, household effects, and interactions. For workshop information:http://www.imaginggenetics.uci.edu/workshops.asp