Seminars and lectures
The MRC IEU seminar series hosts distinguished and cutting-edge scientists from around the world working in the fields of causal inference and causal epidemiology research, and whose research complements that being done at the IEU. Highlighted seminars from the past 12 months can be watched here, with older content available on our YouTube channel.
12 March 2024
Vittal Katikireddi from the University of Glasgow presents on Developing evidence to address the economic determinants of health inequalities.
20 February 2024
Matt Tudball from 5 Prime Scientist presents on Genetics-based drug discovery: Some stories from the frontline.
3 November 2023
Michael Inouye from the University of Cambridge presents on 'Systems genomics for population health: From risk prediction to aetiology'.
4 October 2023
David Ray from the University of Oxford presents on 'The relevance of circadian biology in medicine: how evolutionary ancient timing systems clash with modern life'.
13 July 2023
Hiroki Ueda from the University of Tokyo presents on 'Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep'.
28 June 2023
David Evans from the University of Queensland presents on 'Investigating the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease Using Statistical Genetics Methods'.
15 March 2023
John Lynch from the University of Adelaide presents on 'Trying to be a more useful epidemiologist: From heart disease to child maltreatment'.
23 November
Kazem Rahimi from the University of Oxford presents on 'The changing paradigm in pharmacological treatment of elevated blood pressure
11 October
Zoltan Kutalik from Institute from the University of Lausanne presents on 'Mendelian randomisation in many flavours
5 October
Frank Dudbridge from Institute from the University Leicester presents on 'Objective measures of statistical evidence
13 September
Tom Lumbers from Institute from University College London;presents on 'Aetiological decomposition the heart failure syndrome using genomics and health records
13 September
Jared Balbona from Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) in Boulder, Colorado presents on 'Estimation of Parental Effects Using Polygenic Scores'
6 July
Carlos Cinelli presents on Robust Mendelian randomization in the presence of residual population stratification, batch effects and horizontal pleiotropy
Aspirin Man: Celebrating the career of Professor Peter Elwood - 19 May 2022
To honour the long and valuable career of Professor Peter Elwood from the MRC Epidemiology Unit, South Wales, held in Oxford on 19 May 2022, organised by IEU's Professor George Davey-Smith and Professor John Gallagher (Director of the Dementia Platform UK).
IEU Public Lecture: Paul Rosenbaum - May 2022
Professor Paul Rosenbaum presents on Using Evidence Factors in Observational Studies: Concepts, Examples and Selected Methods
8 March 2022
Michael Love from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents on 'Gene-to-trait effect estimation with MRLocus.'
8 February 2022
Fernando Hartwig from Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil) presents on 'The NO Simultaneous Heterogeneity assumption for average causal effect estimation via instrumental variables.'
1 February 2022
Fernando Hartwig from Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil) presents on 'Contributions of the Pelotas birth cohorts to studying the relationship between early-life poverty and health'.
25 January 2022
Fernando Hartwig from Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil) presents on 'Exploiting genetic data to address (some) questions of public health relevance'.
16 November 2021
Meng Le Zhang from Sheffield University presents on 'The potential of NILS for studying peer effects in health: A case study of fertility amongst neighbours using a natural experiment'.
4 November 2021
Tom Irving from the Depatment of Health & Social Care and Ellen Brooks-Pollock from the University of Bristol presents on 'Two perspectives on the Government’s use of modelling during the pandemic'.
21 July 2021
Art Petronis from University of Toronto presents on chronoepigenetics of human disease.
21 June 2021
Stephen Chanock from DCEG presents on radiation, genomic alterations in papillary thyroid carcinoma and transgenerational studies following the Chernobyl accident.
24 May 2021
Sander Greenland from the UCLA Fielding School presents on Advancing statistics reform part 1: Counting and causation before probability and inference advancing statistics. Part 2 of this talk, "Scientific results are information, not inferences or decisions", was recorded on Thursday 27 May by the University of Geneva.
17 May 2021
George Davey Smith from the University of Bristol presents on Modern or modish epidemiology?: What is lost when fashions change”. John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Translational Epidemiology Seminar Series on 17 May 2021.
26 April 2021
Recent findings in sociogenomics have transformed our understanding of how the genomes and environment combine to affect socioeconomic outcomes. The wider implications of these findings for society have been hotly debated. Four leading researchers will review recent discoveries. Recorded on 26th April 2021.
22 March 2021
Lia van der Hoek from Amsterdam University presents on SARS-CoV-2 re-infections: lessons from other coronaviruses.
16 March 2021
Jennie Lavine from Emory University presents on immunological characteristics govern the transition of COVID-19 to endemicity.
10 March 2021
Professor George Davey Smith from the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit presents on historical considerations of individual and population immunity in the age of coronavirus (COVID-19).
3 February 2021
Xu Shi from the University of Michigan, Wang Miao from Peking University and Eric T Tchetgen from the University of Pennsylvania
15 December 2020
Thiemo Fetzer from the University of Warwick presents 'Does contact tracing work? Quasi-experimental evidence from an Excel error in England'.
2 December 2020
Sarah Stock, from the University of Edinburgh presents 'Timing is everything: improving care for women and babies at risk of preterm birth'.
25 November 2020
Zonghua Liu from the the University of Hong Kong gives a talk on Mendalian randomization mixed-scale treatment effect robust identification (MR MiSTER1) and estimation for causal inference.
5 November 2020
Andrew McIntosh from the University of Edinburgh gives a talk on uncovering the genetic architecture of depression and putting it to good use.
28 October 2020
Bikram Karmakar from University of Florida gives a talk on replication and evidence factors in observational studies.
21 July 2020
Professor Chrissie Thirlwell from University of Exeter Medical School gives a talk on her life in cancer genomics.
11 June 2020
Professor Jonathan Sterne, Deputy Director of the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Reserach Centre, gave an overview of the HDR UK South West Better Care Partnership.
19 May 2020
Professor John Hardy of the UK Dementia Research Instititue talks about the genomic analysis of neurodegeneration.
18 May 2020
Dominka Seblova of the Taub Institute at Columbia University (New York, USA) talks about causal effects of education on cognition and dementia: the use of natural and quasi-experiments.
7 April 2020
George Davey Smith of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit talks about plagues and imperialism: the birth of clinical trials in late nineteenth century India.
19 May 2019
Professor George Davey Smith of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology unit, as visiting Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in May 2019. Unfortunately the recording is not very distinct and cut off Judea Pearl in the middle of his response. The Book of Why presentation transcription (PDF, 259kB). Book of Why Presentation Slides (PDF, 3,664kB)
IEU YouTube channel
Find a range seminars, lectures and tutorials published on the MRC IEU YouTube channel.