PQG Seminar Series

2012-2013

The Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard School of Public Health host another monthly seminar series for the 2012-2013 school year starting in the fall.

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays from 12:30-2:00 PM in Krese G2, unless otherwise noted.

The aim of the PQG Seminar Series is to encourage the exchanging of ideas, promote interaction, collaboration, and research in quantitative genomics. It also aims to promote the mission of the PQG which is to improve health through an interdisciplinary study of genetics, behavior, environment and medicine. The seminar series looks to include the development and application of quantitative methods, especially for high dimensional data, as well as a focus on the training of quantitative genomic scientists.

 

Upcoming Seminar

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
12:30-2:00, FXB G13 **please note room change**
a pizza lunch will be provided

Franziska Michor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Evolution of a Cancer Genome

Cancer emerges due to an evolutionary process in somatic tissue. The fundamental laws of evolution can best be formulated as exact mathematical equations. Therefore, the process of cancer initiation and progression is amenable to mathematical investigation. Current areas of research of the lab include cancer stem cells, evolution of drug resistance, and the dynamics of metastasis formation. In this talk I will introduce two examples of the application of evolutionary theory to cancer genomics and treatment

2012-2013 Seminar Schedule

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• September 18, 2012
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago
  
  
• October 16, 2012
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Mark Gerstein, Yale University
  
  
• November 13, 2012
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Peter Laird, University of Southern California
  
  
• December 11, 2012
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Cecilia Lindgren, University of Oxford
  
  
• January 29, 2013
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Brad Bernstein, Harvard Medical School
  
  
• February 19, 2013
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Benjamin Neale, MGH/The Broad Institute
  
  
  
• March 12, 2013
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G2
  Francis Ouellette, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
  
  
• April 9, 2013
  12:30-2:00, Kresge G3
  Douglas M. Robinson, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, Inc.
  
  
• April 30, 2013
  12:30-2:00, FXB G12 **PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE**
  Jonathan Pritchard, University of Chicago
  
  
  
• May 7, 2013
  12:30-2:00, FXB G13 **PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE**
  Franziska Michor, HSPH & DFCI
  
  
  
  

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