Wednesday 10th May

Pre-conference training: working with family data

Aula F, via Andreatta 8 – please note this is a different location to the conference

15.00-19.00	Alexander Young (UCLA): ‘Disentangling nature and nurture using genomic family data’
16:30-17:00	Coffee break

Thursday 11th May

9.30-11.00	Coffee break/ registration
11:00-12:15	Parallel session I Aula 12 · Chair: Stephanie von Hinke Alex Young (UCLA): ‘Parents’ genes affect their child’s educational achievement through the environment: Evidence from three-generation polygenic index analysis’ Andrea Allegrini (University College London): ‘Investigating direct and indirect genetic contributions of psychiatric risk to childhood psychopathology using family- level genomic data’ Sjoerd van Alten (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): ‘A chip off the old block? Genetics and the intergenerational transmission of wealth’ Sala Feste · Chair: Hans van Kippersluis Margherita Malanchini (Queen Mary University of London): ‘Do family environments mediate the pathway from genotype to observed variation in academic achievement? A developmental investigation’ Perline Demange (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): ‘No effect of parental psychopathologies on children’s educational achievement: A within-family study’ Tilbe Atav (Erasmus School of Economics): ‘Patterns in sibling correlations, heritability and intergenerational elasticity of educational attainment in the Netherlands’
12:15-13:45	Lunch/poster session I Alexandros Giannelis (University of Minnesota): ‘A century of behavioural genetics at the University of Minnesota’ • David Ong (Jinan University): ‘Marrying for height’ Dimitri Kuznetsov (Bielefeld University): ‘The mediating role of shame in the association of coping style and day-to-day stress: Applying the biometrical mediation model’ Filip Oskar Kaleta (King’s College London): ‘Self-harm and age of initiation: Investigating social and aetiological factors in twins’ Helena Davies (King’s College London): ‘Genes and environment in psychiatric disorders: Perceptions and beliefs of mental health professionals in the United Kingdom’ Katherine Thompson (King’s College London): ‘The overlap between social isolation and mental health problems: A longitudinal behavioural genetic analysis’ Liam Wright (University College London): ‘Changing polygenic penetrance on childhood and adolescent body mass index in Great Britain between 1946-2018: A cross-cohort analysis of two British birth cohort studies’ Michelle Arellano Spano (University of Bristol): ‘The intergenerational transmission of mental health disorders’ Qinya Feng (Uppsala University): ‘Triangulating the relationship between education and immigration attitudes’
13:45-15:00	Parallel session II Aula 12 · Chair: Nicolai Vitt Bo Zhao (University of Oxford): ‘Individual attitudes towards identity, privacy, and health insights from personal genomics: Evidence from a full archival search on Twitter’ Margaret Waltz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): ‘Polygenic scores for social traits: The translation of harms and benefits from the scientific literature to the lay media’ Matthis Krischel (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf): ‘Reform Eugenics? Georg Gerhard Wendt and the establishment of the first genetic counselling center in West Germany in 1972’ Sala Feste · Chair: Aysu Okbay Jason Fletcher (University of Wisconsin): ‘Estimating causal effects of fertility outcomes: Evidence using a dyadic genetic instrumental variable approach’ Elisabetta De Cao (University of Bologna): ‘Gene- environment effects on female fertility’ Philipp Dierker (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research): ‘Does parental separation moderate the heritability of health risk behaviour among adolescents?
15:00-15:15	Break
15:15-16:30	Parallel session III Aula 12 · Chair: Nicola Barban Alex Mas-Sandoval (University of Bologna): ‘The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing admixing American populations’ Nurfatima Jandarova (University of Minnesota): ‘Selection and the Roy model in the Neolithic transition’ Luca Pagani (University of Padova): ‘Ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores for recently mixed individuals’ Sala Feste · Chair: Dilnoza Muslimova Evelina Akimova (University of Oxford): ‘Gene-×- Environment analysis supports protective effects of eveningness chronotype on self-reported and actigraphy- derived sleep duration among regular night shift workers in the UK Biobank’ Ruijun Hou (University of Bristol): ‘Long-term health and human capital effects of early-life economic conditions’ Blas Marin-Lopez (University of Alicante): ‘Gendered patterns in subjective ADHD diagnosis: Evidence from genetic data’
16:30-17:00	Coffee Break
17:00-18:30	Keynote Prof. Nicole Soranzo: ‘A population genomics strategy for Italy’
20:00- 21:30	Dinner at Buca San Petronio, Via de’ Musei, 2/4

Friday 12th May

9:30-10:45	Parallel session IV Aula 12 · Chair: Alexander Young Aysu Okbay (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): ‘Polygenic Index Repository v2’ Dilnoza Muslimova (Erasmus University Rotterdam): ‘Rank concordance of polygenic scores’ Steve Lehrer (Queen’s University): ‘An applied econometric assessment of polygenic indices’ Sala Feste · Chair: Eivind Ystrom Gaia Ghirardi (European University Institute): ‘Do high-SES parents compensate for child’s low genetic predisposition for cognitive and non-cognitive skills?’ Marina Aguiar Palma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): ‘Life’s two lotteries: modelling the effects of genes and environments in human capital formation’ Tobias Wolfram (Bielefeld University): ‘Lower heritability of gendered occupational placement for women than for men in the UK labour market’
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-12:30	Parallel session V Aula 12 · Chair: Niels Rietveld Laurel Raffington (Max Planck Institute for Human Development): ‘Measuring the long arm of childhood in real- time: Epigenetic predictors of BMI and social determinants of health across childhood and adolescence’ Eric A. W. Slob (Erasmus University Amsterdam and University of Cambridge): ‘Polygenic indices for censored outcomes: The problem for G×E analysis and a solution’ Qiongshi Lu (University of Wisconsin-Madison): ‘Reimagining gene-environment interaction analysis for human complex traits’ Sala Feste · Chair: Oskar Pettersson Henrik Dobewall (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare): ‘Do genes linked to educational attainment influence socioeconomic outcomes beyond school? Insights from a Nordic Welfare state’ Stefano Lombardi (VATT Institute for Economic Research): ‘Genetic endowments, earnings trajectories and graduating during a recession’ Mirko Ruks (Bielefeld University): ‘Testing for genetic heterogeneity in the economic returns of education’
12:30-14:00	Poster session II Oskar Pettersson (Uppsala University): ‘Exploring gene- environment interactions for educational and economic outcomes using socioeconomic contexts based on population registers’ Qi Qin (University of Oslo): ‘School and geographical differences in the effect of heritable emotional and behavioural traits on educational performance’ Stefanos Mastrotheodoros (Utrecht University): ‘Negative parenting, epigenetic age, and psychological adjustment: Prospective associations from adolescence to young adulthood’ Uku Vainik (University of Tartu and McGill University): ‘Triangulating causality between childhood obesity and neurobehavior: Twin and longitudinal evidence’ Wei Huang (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute): ‘Phenotype imputation increase the power of genetic study of fluid intelligence score in UK Biobank’ Wikus Barkhuizen (University College London): ‘Genetic nurture versus genetic transmission of risk for ADHD traits in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study’ Yayouk Willems (Max Planck Institute for Human Development): ‘Associations of self-control with DNA- methylation measures of aging-related health’ Ziada Ayorech (University of Oslo): ‘The structure of psychiatric co-morbidity without selection and assortative mating’ Liam Wright (University College London): ‘Polygenic and socioeconomic risk for high body mass index: 69 years of follow-up across life’
14:00 -15:15	Parallel Session VI Aula 12 · Chair: Pietro Biroli Nicolai Vitt (University of Bristol): ‘Accuracy of birth location information in the UK Biobank: An analysis based on sibling data’ Tabea Schoeler (University of Lausanne): ‘Exploring causes and consequences of self-reporting biases in biobank-scale data’ Robel Alemu (University of California Los Angeles): ‘Examining the relative predictive performance of polygenic indexes (PGIs) across diverse ancestral populations’ Sala Feste · Chair: Rosa Cheesman David Hugh-Jones: ‘Trading social status for genetics in marriage markets: evidence from UK Biobank’ Joakim Ebeltoft (University of Oslo): ‘The inheritance of economic inequality’ Tobias Edwards (University of Minnesota): ‘Pleiotropy between cognitive traits and political beliefs’
15:15-15:30	Break
15:30-17:00	Keynote Prof. Kathryn Paige Harden: ‘On the Gordian Knot of nature and culture’
18:30-21:00	Aperitivo at Fior di Sale, via Altabella 11D