The 8th Annual CeFH Symposium

We will host our 8th Annual Symposium on May 15-16th, in Oslo, Norway. The symposium gathers researchers from Norway and abroad with an interest in using our rich national data to understand causes and consequences of changing fertility and family patterns. We aim at arranging a symposium with good opportunities to connect and establish new collaborations.

Registration deadline: Wednesday, April 30th. 

We aim to create a research atmosphere that results in fruitful collaborations across disciplines and incentivise research that allows a better understanding of fertility patterns and health outcomes than what each discipline can do alone. Our research team consists of experts in disciplines such as epidemiology, demography, genetics, statistics, economics and medicine.

Program:

Day 1, May 15 

08:30-09.00 Registration, coffee and mingling 

09.00-09.15  Opening – Guri Rørtveit 

09.15 -10.00    KEYNOTE TALK  Anne Goujon: “Future fertility: What we know, what we think, and what we still don’t understand”

Chair: Vegard Skirbekk

10:00-10:30  SPEED TALKS: PhDs and postdocs at CeFH 

Chair: Karoline H. Skåra

Speakers: Karoline H. Skåra, Maria L. Andersen, Siri N. Skodvin, Dena T. Alavi, Kate Beck, Thea Grindstad, Huong Thu Nguyen, Arno Van Hootegem,Hans Fredrik Sunde, Pekka J. Vartiainen, Marianne R. Grefslie

10.30-11.00    BREAK 

11:00-12:00    SESSION 1: Fertility behaviour 

Chair: Martin Flatø 

Kieron Barclay: “Birth spacing and parental health” 

Linus Andersson: “Religious affiliation and fertility in Finland” 

Pieter Vanhuysse: “Do low-fertility societies implicitly tax their own reproduction?"

12.00-13.00    LUNCH 

13:00-14:00    SESSION 2: Chair: Population genetics and kinship 

Chair: Hans Fredrik Sunde 

Magnus Dehli Vigeland: “Estimating relatedness and pedigree relationships from genomic data”

Eivind Hovig: “Aspects of population genetics in health” 

Ellen Røyrvik: “Population genetics, Norway, and the scope for epidemiology” 

14:00-14:30    BREAK 

14:30-15:15    SESSION 3: Fecundity and reproductive health 

Chair: Maria Magnus 

Kim Danielsson: “Sperm DNA fragmentation and infertility” 

Marc Vaudel: “Women’s symptoms early in pregnancy” 

Liv Kvalvik: “Pregnancy complications and cardiovascular mortality” 

15:15-16:00    PANEL DISCUSSION: Do we need more children? 

Chair: Øystein Kravdal 

Kalle Moene, Peder Skjelbred and Rannveig Kaldager Hart 

16:30-17:30  Walk and talk with Kåre Bævre 

17:30-18:00  Mingling at restaurantDapper Bistro (Dronning Eufemias gate 42, 0191 Oslo)

18:00  Dinner at Dapper Bistro (Dronning Eufemias gate 42, 0191 Oslo)

Day 2, May 16 

08:45-09:00Coffee and mingling 

09:00-10:00    SESSION 4: Methods 

Chair: Anders Skrondal 

Jo Thori Lind: “What epidemiologists can learn from econometrics” 

Yunsung Lee: “Calculating polygenic scores: methods, challenges and advances” 

Miriam Gjerdevik: “Gestational age determination in pregnancies conceived by assisted reproductive technologies” 

10:00-10:30    BREAK 

10:30-11:15    SESSION 5: Perinatal and childhood health 

Chair: Pekka Vartiainen 

Birgitte Kahrs: “New abortion law and fetal development” 

Pol Solé Navais: “Maternal age and time-to-miscarriage” 

Stefan Johansson: “The intricate role of genetics in steering growth throughout childhood” 

11:15-12:00    KEYNOTE TALK  Ken Ong: “Lessons from studies of the genetics of reproduction”

Chair: Per Magnus

12:00-13:00  LUNCH 

13:00-14:00    SESSION 6: Genetics and epigenetics 

Chair: Jon Bohlin 

Xavier Tekplie: “Single cell analyses of breast cancer” 

Astanand Jugessur: “GWAS of infertility” 

Robert Lyle: “A primer of epigenetics” 

14:00-14:45    SESSION 7: Family, education and health 

Chair: Jonathan Wörn 

Mine Kühn: “Single parenthood, gender, and health” 

Martin Blomhoff Holm: “Housing and fertility – theory and evidence” 

Arne Lervåg: “How to promote equality in education: CREATE – Centre for Research on Equality in Education” 

14:45-14:50 Final remarks – Siri Håberg