Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology

Seminar Series

Fridays 12:30-1:30 in the EPI Library (Kresge 907)

The Spring 2013 PMAGE Seminar Series will be held the following Fridays at 12:30 PM in the Epi Library (Kresge 907).  If you would like to see more information on topics from previous years, please visit our Past PMAGE Seminars page.

 

Date
Speaker
February 1st Internal PMAGE 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 PMAGE 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 PMAGE 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 PMAGE Lab Group
May 10th Irene Shui
Postdoctoral Fellow
HSPH Department of Epidemiology

“Do Prostate Cancer Risk Variants Predict Disease Progression?”

and

Marta 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”

and

Akl Fahed
Research Fellow, HMS Department of Genetics
MPH Student, Harvard School of Public Health

“Targeted Resequencing in Congenital Heart Disease”