The 8th Annual CeFH Symposium
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Welcome to the 8th Annual Symposium with the Centre for Fertility and Health in Oslo, Norway!
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 restaurant Dapper Bistro (Dronning Eufemias gate 42, 0191 Oslo)
18:00 Dinner at Dapper Bistro (Dronning Eufemias gate 42, 0191 Oslo)
Day 2, May 16
08:45-09:00 Coffee 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
