Conference on Epidemiological Birth Cohort Studies
Dedicated to the memory of Professor Paula Rantakallio

Thursday 12 – Friday 13 June, 2014
Leena Palotie Auditorium, Aapistie 5, Oulu, Finland

Organized by The Northern Finland Birth Cohort Studies (http://www.oulu.fi/nfbc/)
University of Oulu, Finland  (http://www.oulu.fi/)

Registration by Friday 30 May, 2014, www.oulu.fi/nfbc 

Program

Thursday June 12th
8.30 – 9.00	Coffee
Session I 	Chair, Juha Veijola, University of Oulu
9.00 – 9.15	Opening words
Kyösti Oikarinen, Dean of the Medical Faculty, University of Oulu
9.15 – 9.45	A New Dawn for Longitudinal Studies
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, University of Oulu, Imperial Collage London
9.45 – 10.15 	Contributions of Finnish Twin Cohort Studies to Understanding Use and Abuse of Alcohol 
	Richard J. Rose, Indiana University
10.15 – 10.45		Computational medicine: a multidisciplinary and global endeavour to understand health and disease aetiology 
	Mika Ala-Korpela, University of Oulu & University of Bristol
10.45 – 11.15	Benefits of cohort studies for child and adolescent psychiatry Irma Moilanen, University of Oulu
11.15 – 12.30	Lunch

Session II 	Chair, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, University of Oulu
12.30 – 13.00	Population Neuroscience of the Adolescent Brain 
	Tomas Paus, University of Toronto 
13.00 – 13.30	Musculoskeletal research in Northern Finland Birth Cohorts Jaro Karppinen, University of Oulu 
13.30 – 14.00	From infancy to middle-age: a mental journey through NFBC 1966 
	Graham Murray, University of Cambridge 
14.00 – 14.30	Coffee 
14.30 – 15.00	Physical activity and fitness during the lifecourse 
	Tuija Tammelin, LIKES – Research Center for Sport and 	Health Sciences
15.00 – 15.30	Prevalence and background factors of temporomandibular disorders 
	Kirsi Sipilä, University of Eastern Finland
15.30 – 16.00	Preterm birth and maternal pregnancy disorders as models to understand early origins of adult health and disease 
	Eero Kajantie, National Institute for Health and Welfare
18.00 - 	Dinner at the restaurant Rauhala, Mannenkatu 4, Oulu

Friday June 13th
8.45 – 9.15	Coffee
Session I 	Chair, Minna Männikkö, University of Oulu
9.15 – 9.45	Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: what have we learned from the cohort studies 
	Laure Morin-Papunen, Oulu University Hospital
9.45 – 10.15 	Using population isolates in disease genetics 
	Aarno Palotie, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
10.15 – 10.45	Complex disease genetics: moving beyond GWAS to impact on population health 
	Mark Daly, Harward Medical School 
10.45 – 11.15		Development of schizophrenia  from a lifespan perspective within the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort Study 
	Matti Isohanni, University of Oulu
11.15 – 12.30	Lunch
12.30 – 13.00		Dispositional optimism in NFBC-1966, relations and antecedents 
	Ellen Ek, University of Jyväskylä 
13.00 – 13.30	Early adversity, epigenome and adolescent obesity 
	Zdenka Pausova, University of Toronto 
13.30 – 14.00	Design options in cohort studies: Sampling-based alternatives to a census of the study population 
	Esa Läärä, University of Oulu
14.00 – 14.15	Closing words 
	Juha Veijola, University of Oulu
 www.oulu.fi/nfbc