2011
Date: February 4th, 2011
Speaker: Peter Kraft, HSPH-Epidemiology, Associate Professor Title: “Finding hidden heritability for complex diseases using linear mixed models“ |
Date: March 25th, 2011
Speaker: Gaurav Bhatia, HSPH-Epidemiology, Doctoral Student Title: “Genome-wide Comparison of Closely Related African Populations Reveals Signals of Natural Selection“ |
Date: April 1st, 2011
Speaker: Sara Lindstrom, HSPH-Epidemiology, Research Scientist Title: “Genetic Predictors of Mammographic Density and Breast Cancer“ |
Date: April 15th, 2011
Speaker: Peter Lipman, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate in Medicine Title: “On the Analysis of Sequencing Data: Testing for Disease Susceptibility Loci using Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium“ |
Date: April 22nd, 2011
Speaker: Mousheng Xu, HSPH-Epidemiology, Postdoctoral Fellow Title: “In the Search of Genetic Contributors of Handedness“ |
Date: April 29th, 2011
Speaker: Noah Zaitlen, HSPH-Epidemiology, Postdoctoral Fellow Title: “Components of Heritability“ |
Date: May 6th, 2011
Speaker: Gourab De, HSPH-Biostatistics, Research Assistant Title: “Testing Association for Rare Variants in Family-Based Design“ |
Date: September 9th, 2011
Speaker: Seunggeun Lee, HSPH-Biostatistics, Research Fellow Title: “Rare Variant Association Testing Using the Sequence Kernel Association Test (SKAT)“ |
Date: September 23rd, 2011
Speaker: Emile Chimusa, HSPH-Epidemiology, Visiting Scholar from the University of Cape Town- South Africa Title: “Genetic Fine Characterization of the Admixed Ancestry of the South African Coloured Population“ |
Date: September 30th, 2011
Speaker: Bogdan Pasaniuc, HSPH-Epidemiology, Postdoctoral Fellow Title: “Extremely Low-coverage Sequencing Enables Cost Effective GWAS“ |
Date: October 21st, 2011
Speaker: International Congress of Human Genetics 2011- Reports from PMAGE ICHG attendees |
Date: October 28th, 2011
Speaker: Ioannis Politopoulos, HSPH-Epidemiology, Visiting Scholar from the University of Southampton-United Kingdom Title: “Breast Cancer Risk & Survival: Identifying their Genetic Component“ |
Date: December 9th, 2011
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Karlson, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine Title: “OurGenes, OurCommunity, OurHealth“ |
Date: December 16th, 2011
Speaker: Levi Waldron, HSPH-Biostatistics, Research Fellow Title: “Gene expression profiling of archival tissues for long-term health studies“ |