Past PMAGE Seminars
2012
| Date: January 27th, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Hoge, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, HMS Title: “Mindfulness Meditation:Stress and Health” |
| Date: February 10th, 2012
Speaker: Amit Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology Title: “Relative excess risk due to interactions between GWAS identified susceptibility loci and risk factors of breast cancer” |
| Date: February 17th, 2012
Speaker: Noah Zaitlen, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology Title: “Richer models of human diseases and their genetic architectures” |
| Date: February 24th, 2012
Speaker: Gaurav Bhatia, Doctoral Student, HSPH-Epidemiology Title: “Augmenting heritability estimates by analyzing haplotypes“ |
| Date: March 9th, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Josee Dupuis, Professor of Biostatistics, Boston University Title: “Network-guided sparse regression modeling for detecting gene-gene interactions“ |
| Date: March 23rd, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Jorge Chavarro, HSPH-Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and HMS-Assistant Professor of Medicine Title: “Epidemiologic studies of human fertility: current directions and opportunities“ |
| Date: March 30th, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Heather Eliasson, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH Title: “Nuts and Bolts of the NHS/HPFS Blood Lab“ |
| Date: April 13th, 2012
Speaker: Dr. Alkes Price, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, HSPH Title: “Tantalizing Dilemmas in Genetic Risk Prediction“ |
| Date: April 20th, 2012
Speaker: Alexander Gusev, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology Title: “Quantifying Recent Variation and Relatedness in Human Populations“ |
| Date: April 27th, 2012
Special PMAGE Seminar on Mendelian Randomization Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen Tyler Vanderweele Stefan Walter Marilyn Cornelis Lu Qi
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| Date: May 11th, 2012
Speaker: Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH Title: “Gene-environment Interaction in Youth Depression: Review and Recommendations“ |
| Date: May 15th, 2012
Speaker: Noah Zaitlen, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology Title: “Learning About the Differences in the Genetic Basis of Phenotype Around the World via Heritability Analysis of Admixed Individuals“ |
| Date:September 14th, 2012
Speaker:Jennifer Prescott, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Title:“BMI and Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Risk Prediction Scores and Endometrial Cancer Risk” |
| Date:September 21st, 2012
Speakers: and Xuefeng Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Date:September 28th, 2012
Speaker:Hugues Aschard, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology Title:“Relaxing Genetic Models to Improve Detection of Genetics Variants having Heterogeneous Effect on Quantitative Phenotypes” |
| Date:October 12th, 2012
Speaker:Akweley Ablorh, Doctoral Student, HSPH-Epidemiology Title:“Breast Cancer Risk and Rare Variants” |
| Date:October 19th, 2012
Speaker: Bjarni Vilhjalmsson, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology Title:“Bayesian Polygenic Risk Prediction using GWAS Summary Statistics” |
| Date:October 26th, 2012
Speakers: and Chaolong Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Date:November 30th, 2012
Speakers: and Cindy Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow, HSPH-Epidemiology |
| Date:December 14th, 2012
Speaker:Linda Hiraki, Doctoral Student, HSPH-Epidemiology Title:“Joint Effects Known Colorectal Cancer Risk Markers and 25(OH)D in Relation to Vitamin D Receptor Binding Sites” |
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“ |