Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
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2025-2026 |
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| November 17, 2025 | Molly Przeworski, Columbia University |
Why does the Human Germline Mutation Rate Depend on Age and Sex? |
2024-2025 |
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| September 26, 2024 | Jennifer Smith, University of Michigan | Studying the Genomics of Cognitive Function in India: Opportunities, Challenges, and Insights |
| October 3, 2024 | Dylan Cable, University of Michigan | Application of High-throughput Genomics Technologies to Understand Human Health and Disease |
| January 30, 2025 | Stephen Montgomery, Stanford University | Multi-omics to Study Rare Variants in Genetic Diseases |
| March 10, 2025 | Rick Myers, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology | Genomics, Gene Regulation, and the Human Brain |
| June 5, 2025 | Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University | Learning Biology a Few Genes at a Time |
2023-2024 |
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| May 6, 2024 | Prija Moorjani, University of California | Reconstructing Evolutionary History and Processes: Insights from Analysis of Present-day and Ancient Genomes |
| March 7, 2024 | Hilary Finucane, Broad Institute | Insights from Complex Trait Fine-mapping Across Diverse Biobanks |
| November 10, 2023 | Michael Epstein, Emory University | Identifying Latent Genetic Interactions in GWAS using Multiple Traits |
| October 12, 2023 | Hae Kyung Im, University of Chicago | Next-Generation PrediXcan: Integrating Deep Learning with Population-Based Techniques |
| September 19, 2023 | Eleazar Eskin, University of California Los Angeles | Swab-Seq: Detecting Pathogens using Sequencing |
| July 28, 2023 | Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania | Integrating Spatial Transcriptomics with Histology to Infer Super-resolution Tissue Architecture |
2022-2023 |
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| April 18, 2023 | Alicia Martin, Broad Institute | Genomics for the World: A Comprehensive Framework for Genetic Studies in Diverse Populations |
| March 23, 2023 | Peter Kharchenko, Altos Labs | Analysis of Somatic CNVs in Cancer and Normal Tissues with RNA Data |
| February 15, 2023 | Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University | How we can use Genetics to Reduce Health Inequities |
| January 23, 2023 | Cole Trapnell, University of Washington | Whole-embryo Development Genetics at Single Cell Resolution |
| November 17, 2022 | John Novembre, University of Chicago | Visualization and Study Design Implications of Geographic Structure in Genetic Data |
| November 2, 2022 | Elliott Margulies, Illumina | From First Ever to Every Patient: “An Academic Pushing Clinical Adoption of Genomics from Industry" |
2021-2022 |
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| March 15, 2022 | Mark Daly, University of Helsinki | Biobanks, Disease Consortia, and the Road Ahead in Human Genetics |
| February 21, 2022 | Bogdan Pasaniuc, University of California Los Angeles | Large Uncertainty in Individual Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Estimation Impacts PRS Implementation in Personalized Medicine |
| February 9, 2022 | Michael Epstein, Emory University | Life Moves Pretty Fast: Lessons Learned from ~20 Years in Academia |
| November 12, 2021 | Michelle McNulty, Boston Children's Hospital | Using Transcriptomics to Better Understand the Role of APOL1 in Kidney Disease |
| November 5, 2021 | Eric Fauman, Pfizer | Toward a Gold Standard SNP to Gene Set |
| September 17, 2021 | Mark Reppell, AbbVie Pharmaceuticals | Leveraging Computational Genomics to Advance a Pharmaceutical Pipeline |
2020-2021 |
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| April 13, 2021 | Lynn Jorde, University of Utah | Human Mutation Rates: Implications for Health and Disease |
| February 16, 2021 | Eimear Kenny, Mount Sinai | Population Genetics in an Era of Genomic Health |
| January 21, 2021 | Charles Rotimi, National Human Genome Research Institute | Importance of Diversity in Genome Science and Medicine |
| October 7, 2020 | Jonathan Pritchard, Stanford University | Why are Human Complex Traits so Enormously Polygenic? Lessons from Molecular Biomarker Traits |