Interuniversity Institute
for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 10.00–13.00, room C 104
	Scientific Meeting regarding BOF, FWO and related projects in I-Biostat. (a general introduction followed by short presentations)
	Provisional program:
	10.00–10.30	Geert MOLENBERGHS A Flexible modeling framework for overdispersed hierarchical data
	10.30–10.40	Liesbeth BRUCKERS
	10.40–10.50	Achmad EFENDI
	10.55–11.05	Mehreteab FANTAHUN
	11.05–11.15	Aklilu HABTEAB GHEBRETINSAE
	11.20–11.30	Samuel IDDI
	11.30–11.40	George KALEMA
	11.45–11.55	Elasma MILANZI
	11.55–12.05	Edmund NJAGI NJERU
	12.10–12.20	Thomas NEYENS
	12.20–12.30	Birhanu TESHOME
	12.30–13.00	further discussion

Friday 12 March 2010, 12.30–13.30, room C 105
	Noura CHELBAT (Institute of Bioinformatics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Reliability issues in Affimetrix microarray data

Friday 19 March 2010, 12.30–14.00, room C 104
	Francisco GUDE SAMPEDRO (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Flexible hazard ratio curves for continuous predictors in multistate models
	This talk will be followed by an open discussion on the topic “How to write a research grant ?” (introduction by Gude and discussion by Geert Molenberghs, Paul Janssen and others)

Friday 7 May 2010, 12.30–13.30, room C 110
	Nele GOEYVAERTS (Universiteit Hasselt) Estimating infectious disease parameters from data on social contacts and serological status

Friday 4 June 2010, 12.30–13.30, room C 105
	Qi ZHU (Universiteit Hasselt) Modelling of high-resolution mass spectra