The BMS-ANed fall meeting took place on wed. November 5  13.30 - 17.15 h. and was organised by the working group Biometry Colloquium Wageningen, by occasion of the Biometry Award 2008 won by Martin Boer.

The meeting was themed:

Genetical statistics and the Biometry Award 2008

Location: Forum building (nr 102), roomP635 (6th floor), Wageningen UR, Droevendaalsesteeg 2, 6708 PB Wageningen

Following this meeting the general assembly of BMS-ANed was held. Also there were drinks.

The program was: 

13.00 - 13.30	Coffee and tea
13.30 - 13.35	Opening by Fred van Eeuwijk
13.35 - 14.10	A Mixed Model Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis for Multiple Environment Trial Data
	Martin Boer (Biometris, Wageningen UR)
14.10 - 14.45	Fun with SNPs
	Paul Eilers (Utrecht University, Leiden University)
14.45 - 15.20	Accounting for relations between genotypes in association mapping
	Marcos Malosetti (Biometris, Wageningen UR)
15.20 - 15.45	Coffee and tea
15.45 - 16.20	A comparison of analysis methods for late-stage variety evaluation trials
	Robin Thompson (Rothamsted Research)
16.20 - 16.55	On the fundamental theorem of the HapMap
	Aad van der Vaart (dept. Mathematics, VU Amsterdam)
16.55 - 17.25	Annual meeting of BMS-ANed
17.00 - 18.00	Drinks and snacks

 Voor abstracts see the website of biometris