Seminars

Date Speaker Topic

2024-2025

October 30, 2024 Carlos Bustamante, University of California TBD
September 26, 2024 Jennifer Smith, University of Michigan Studying the Genomics of Cognitive Function in India: Opportunities, Challenges, and Insights

2023-2024

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

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

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

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

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