Previous Seminars

Date Speaker Topic

2019-2020

November 7, 2019 Tuuli Lappalainen, Columbia University Functional Variation in the Human Genome: Lessons from the Transcriptome
September 19, 2019 Mary-Claire King, University of Washington Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer: from Gene Discovery to Precision Medicine and Public Health

2018-2019

April 11, 2019 Joanna Mountain, 23andMe 23andMe's Customer-Powered Research
February 22, 2019 Kathryn Roeder, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Carnegie Mellon University Learning From the Transcriptome: Analysis of Single Cell and Bulk RNA Sequence Data
October 23, 2018 Po-Ru Loh, Harvard School of Public Health, Broad Institute Leveraging Long Range Phasint to Detect Mosaicism in Blod at Ultra-low Allelic Fractions

2017-2018

August 27, 2018  Lang Li, Ohio State University  Learning Health System Working Towards a Home Run for Drug Interaction and Pharmacogenetics
April 13, 2018 Eric Fauman, Pfizer The Use of Human Genetics in the Identification and Prioritization of Therapeutic Drug Targets
April 9, 2018 Timothy Thornton, University of Washington Challenges and New Approaches for Whole Genome Analysis in Multi-Ethnic Populations
April 4, 2018 Evan Eichler, University of Washington Human Evolution by Segmental Duplication and Structural Variation
March 23, 2018 Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington Mapping Causal DNA Through the Shared Descent of Genome in Population Samples
November 13, 2017 Fernando Pardo-Mnauel de Villena, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Structural Variation and the Evolution of the Mouse Genome

2016-2017

April 21, 2017 Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania Statistical Issues in Single-cell RNA Sequencing Analysis
April 13, 2017 Sandrine Dudoit, University of California Berkeley Using Single-cell Transcriptome Sequencing to iInfer Olfactory Stem Cell Fate Trajectories
April 11, 2017 Mike Snyder, Stanford University Managing Health and Disease Using Omics Data
March 21, 2017 Jonathan Terhorst, University of California Berkeley Robust and Scalable Inference of Population History and Selection from Hundreds of Whole Genomes
March 10, 2017 Claus Ekstrom, University of Copenhagen Integrative Data Analysis of the Danish Registries
February 23, 2017 Lars Fritsche, K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology Exploring the Potential of Genome x Phenome-wide Association Studies
February 16, 2017 Yun Li, University of North Carolina Statistical Methods, Computation Tools, and Visualization of Hi-C Data
September 12, 2016 Soumya Raychaudhuri, Harvard Medical School The Genomics of Immune-mediated Diseases and Traits

2015-2016

May 5, 2016 Kenneth Lange, University of California  Next Generation Statistical Genetics
April 21, 2016 Yun Li, University of North Carolina DISSCO: Direct Imputation of Summary Statistics Allowing Covariates 
April 18, 2016 Noah Zaitlen, University of California San Francisco Methods for Genetic Studies Across Multiple Phenotypes
April 14, 2016 Hongyu Zhao, Yale University Prioritization of Disease-Causing Genetic Variants Through Integrated Analysis of Association Signals and Genomic Annotations
April 5, 2016 Andrew Clark, Cornell University Training the Genome - the Silver Fox Story
February 9, 2016 Qing Lu, Michigan State University A Generalized Similarity U Test for Multivariate Analysis of Sequencing Data
January 12, 2016  Jay Shendure, University of Washington New Methods in Genetics and Genomics
September 28, 2015 David Cutler, Emory University Quantitative Genetics Theory Informs Our Understanding of Male-Female Differences in Autism

2014-2015

April 27, 2015 Carole Ober, University of Chicago Integrated–omics and the Discovery of Fertility Genes in a Founder Population
April 14, 2015 Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University New Approaches to Integrating Large-Scale Data for Genomic Studies of Common Disease
April 13, 2015 Eleanor Feingold, University of Pennsylvania Next Gen GWAS
April 7, 2015 Steve McCarroll, Harvard Medical School The Variation Within: Somatic Mutation and Single-cell Transcriptional Variation in Biology and Disease 

2013-2014

April 6, 2014 Yun Song, University of California Berkeley Identifiability of Demographic Models and Distortion of Genealogical Properties for Very Large Samples
January 13, 2014 Suzanne Leal, Baylor College of Medicine Rare Variant Extensions of the Transmission Disequilibrium Test: Application to Autism Exome Sequence Data
November 13, 2013 Andrew Morris, Oxford University Discovery and Fine-mapping of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) Susceptibility Loci via Trans-ethnic Meta-analysis
September 28, 2013 Simon Gravel, McGill University Reconstructing Native American Migrations from Whole-genome and Whole-exome Data
September 24, 2013 Aravinda Chakravarti, Johns Hopkins University Genomic Analysis of Hirschsprung Disease

2012-2013

April 5, 2013 Dajiang Liu, University of Michigan Statistical Methods for Detecting and Interpreting Rare Variant Associations: Application to Human Lipids Variation
March 28, 2013 Ming Hu, Harvard University Bayesian Inference of Spatial Organizations of Chromosomes
March 25, 2013 Hae Kyung Im Harnessing the Power of Statistics in Genomic Science
March 21, 2013 Shaun Purcell, Harvard Medical School Investigating the Role of Rare Coding Variation in Schizophrenia Through Whole-exome Sequencing
March 19, 2013 Bryan Howie, University of Chicago Statistical Methods for Studying the Genetics of Complex Disease and the Evolution of Human Immunity
March 18, 2013 David Altshuler, Broad Institute Genomic Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Disease
March 14, 2013 Michael DeGiorgio Using Models of Evolutionary History to Understand Human Genetic Variation
December 3, 2012 Elaine Ostrander Both Ends of the Leash.  Good Dogs with Bad Genes Information Human Health and Biology.
October 12, 2012 Saurabh Ghosh Association Mapping of Quantitative Traits: Populations Stratification and Count Phenotypes
September 27, 2012 Rafael Irizarry Bump Hunting in the Epigenome