Epigenetics and Social Science Network Meeting. St Thomas' Hospital, London. 20 June 2017

Epigenetics and Social Science Network Meeting London. A day to share progress and make plans for the future.

Epigenetics and Social Science Workshop. Engineers House, Bristol. 8 June 2017

Epigenetics and Social Science Wokshop. An afternoon workshop. Epigenetics presentations and a lively panel discussion focusing on the population sciences and social perspectives of epigenetics.

Epigenetics in public health: the stuff of legends? Public talk. Rise/Friska, Bristol. 17 May 2017

Epigenetics in public health: the stuff of legends. Lotte Houtepen represented the E4 and Interstela projects in her public talk as part of the Pint of Science festival.

Imputation workshop. Bristol. 13 April 2017

Imputation workshop. A focused session on imputation and missing data in epigenetic studies. An engaged group of researchers came together to share experiences at this one day workshop in the Richmond Building Students Union in Bristol.

Statistical approaches for epigenetics: Challenges and potential solutions workshop 9 December 2016

Statistical approaches for epigenetics: Challenges and potential solutions. A one day workshop. An engaged group of 31 researchers gathered for this one day workshop in Beacon House, Bristol.

'Early life adversity alters normal sex-dependent developmental dynamics of DNA methylation' November 2016

'Early life adversity alters normal sex-dependent developmental dynamics of DNA methylation' Early life adversity alters normal sex-dependent developmental dynamics of DNA.. (PDF, 913kB) Authors: Massart R, Nemoda Z, Suderman MJ, Sutti S, Ruggiero AM, Dettmer AM, Suomi SJ, Szyf M

Matt Suderman from the Interstela project was a key author in this paper.

Poster presentation at 2016 Human Behaviour and Evolution Society conference 29 June 2016

'Associations between psychosocial adversity and epigenetic ageing: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children' Lawn et al poster presentation 2016 (PDF, 571kB) Authors: R Lawn, EL Anderson, M Suderman, AJ Simpkin, C Relton, I Penton-Voak, LD Howe. 

Rebecca Lawn represented the Interstela project at the 2016 Human Behaviour and Evolution Society conference in Vancouver, Canada by presenting this poster.

Epidemiology Congress of the Americas Miami - Pre conference workshop 21 - 24 June 2016

Epigenetic Epidemiology, a pre conference workshop chaired by Matthew Suderman, Riccardo Marioni and Andrew Simpkin on behalf of the Interstela Project. An interactive workshop covering relevance of epigenetics to human health; design, execution and interpretation of population-based epigenetic studies, measurement technologies and statistical analyses. Interpretation covered techniques for uncovering the biological relevance of findings, including utilization of other molecular profiles such as gene expression. 

Mediation Analysis Workshop 11 March 2016

Mediation Analysis: Challenges and novel approaches, a workshop sponsored by the Society for Social Medicine in conjunction with the Interstela Project held in Bristol. This workshop outlined the challenges of traditional methods for mediation analysis and some of the novel approaches based on counterfactual theory or instrumental variable methods including Mendelian Randomization.