2013 Seminars
Date |
Speaker |
February 1st | Internal Lab Group meeting |
February 15th | Alexander Gusev, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Quantifying Missing Heritability at Known GWAS Loci” |
February 22nd | Lori Chibnik, Ph.D. Instructor in Neurology Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital “GWAS of Cognitive Decline using Multi-factor Longitudinal Datasets” |
March 1st | Internal Lab Group meeting |
March 8th | Chia-yen Chen Doctoral Student HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Improving Phenotype Prediction using Ancestry Information” |
March 15th | Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Ph.D. Associate Professor HSPH Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics “A Simple and Efficient Regression Framework for the Analysis of a Secondary Phenotype in Case-Control Studies” |
March 22nd | No Seminar- Spring Break |
March 29th | Alkes Price, Ph.D. Assistant Professor HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Dangerous Adventures with Mixed Models” |
April 5th | Internal Lab Group meeting |
April 12th | Gaurav Bhatia Doctoral Student Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Ancestry Inference in Dense Genotype and Sequence Data” |
April 19th | Seminar Cancelled |
April 26th | Giovanni Parmigiani, Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health “Evaluating the predictivness of genomic signatures by systematic reviews and cross-study reproducibility” |
May 3rd | Internal Lab Group |
May 10th | Irene Shui Postdoctoral Fellow HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Do Prostate Cancer Risk Variants Predict Disease Progression?”andMarta Crous Bou, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School and Channing Laboratory “Colorectal Cancer: Genetic Epidemiology and Diagnostic Biomarkers” |
May 17th | Maxine Chen Master’s Student HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Exome-wide Association Study of Endometrial Cancer in a Multi-ethnic Population”andAkl Fahed Research Fellow, HMS Department of Genetics MPH Student, Harvard School of Public Health “Targeted Resequencing in Congenital Heart Disease” |
Date |
Speaker |
September 6th | Internal PGSG Lab Group meeting |
September 20th | Jinyan Huang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow HSPH Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics “Meta-analysis on eQTL mapping identify insertion and deletion (INDEL) specific eQTLs in LCL, PBMC and skin tissues” |
September 27th | Edward Ruiz Narvaez, Sc.D. Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Boston University School of Public Health “Genetic Basis of Complex Diseases in African Americans: The Black Women’s Health Study” |
October 4th | Internal PGSG Lab Group meeting |
October 11th | Bjarni Vilhjalmsson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Efficient Bayesian Polygenic Risk Prediction” |
October 18th | Tristan Hayeck Doctoral Student HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Mixed Model Association Statistic with Correction for Case-control Ascertainment” |
November 1st | Internal PGSG Lab Group meeting |
November 8th | Po-Ru Loh, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Fast and Powerful Extensions of Mixed Model Methods for GWAS” |
November 22nd | Jun Chen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow HSPH Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics “Effective Adjustment of Differential Cell Populations in Epigenome-wide Association Studies” |
December 6th | Internal PGSG Lab Group |
December 13th | Zhonghua Liu Doctoral Student HSPH Department of Epidemiology “Metabolite profiling identified several novel susceptible biomarkers associated with body mass index in Caucasians” |