Workshop Announcement: Call for Applications Stanford Workshop on Biodemography - May 6-8, 2013 Deadline for Applications: March 22, 2013.
The Stanford Centers for Population Research and the Demography and Economics of Health & Aging announce a workshop on Biodemography. This year's topics include: mortality disparity (patterns, causes, change); genes and aging (expression data, GWAS and SNPS, EWAS); quantitative traits, environments and variation; and evolutionary data and theory. Faculty in attendance will include Shripad Tujlapurkar (Stanford), Hal Caswell (WHOI) and Carol Horvitz (Miami), among others. Applications for this 3-day workshop are invited from advanced students, postdocs and junior faculty. We provide materials and meals at the workshop. Students are expected to arrange for their own travel. A limited number of scholarships are available to help pay for lodging and/or travel. To apply for the workshop, please email your CV and a short statement of research interest by Friday, March 22, 2013, to Neesha Joseph ([email protected]). To apply for a scholarship, specify whether you are requesting support for travel, lodging or both and include a recommendation letter from your faculty advisor. Sponsors: National Institute on Aging, Stanford's Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford's Center for Population Research, Stanford's Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, and the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging at the University of California, Berkeley. Shripad Tuljapurkar Professor 454 Herrin Labs Biology Department Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 [email protected]
