Past PGSG Seminars

2021 PGSG Seminars

PGSG Faculty Lightning Talks

Liming Liang & Immaculata de Vivo
September 10, 2021

 

ASHG Practice Talks

Alkes Price, Tiffany Amariuta, Ben Strober, Richard Border, Sam Kim
September 17, 2021 (at 10:30 am)

 

Approaches for Evaluating Pan Cancer Pleitropy

Rebecca Graff
September 24, 2021

 

Regular aspirin use, breast tumor characteristics and long-term breast cancer survival

Cheng Peng
October 1, 2021

 

Understanding generic correlation estimates in the context of multivariate assertive mating

Richard Border
October 8, 2021

 

The impact of age on genetic risk for common diseases

Xilin Jiang
October 15, 2021

 

Prioritizing variants for complex diseases as base-pair resolution

Kushal Dey
October 22, 2021

 

PGSG Graduate Students’ Reflections on ASHG Conference: Favorite Talks & Posters

Jun Li, Jie (Jack) Hu, Sarah Kalia, Martin Zhang, Xilin Jiang & Yon Ho Jee
October 29, 2021

 

Dynamic cell-type-specific eQTL from single-cell RNA-seq of inflamed and non-inflamed colon elucidate biological mechanisms of ulcerative colitis

Karthik Jagadeesh
November 5, 2021

 

Leveraging DNA-methylation data in weight-loss long-term large-scale RCT setting

Anat Yasolka Meir
November 12, 2021

 

Integrating genetics and metabolomics from multi-ethnic and multi-fluid data reveals putative mechanisms for age-related macular degeneration

Xikun Han
November 19, 2021

 

PGSG Faculty Lightning Talks

Alkes Price, Pete Kraft, Kathryn Penney, Lori Chibnik
December 3, 2021

2016 PGSG Seminars

 

NicoloFusiFebruary 12th, 2016: Nicolo Fusi, Ph.D.
Researcher
Microsoft Research
Talk Title: “The Warped Linear Mixed Model: Finding Optimal Phenotype Transformations Yields a Substantial Increase in Signal in Genetic Analyses

 

 

LukeFebruary 19th, 2016: Luke O’Connor
Doctoral Student
Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Program
Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Estimating Components of Heritability Explained by Gene Expression

 

 

gusev 002February 26th, 2016: Alexander Gusev, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “Transcriptome- and epigenome-wide association study of brain-related traits uncovers specific regulatory mechanisms

 

 

Kevin GalinskyMarch 11th, 2016: Kevin Galinsky
Doctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “Population Structure and Natural Selection in the UK

 

 

YakirMarch 25th, 2016: Yakir Reshef
MD/PhD Student
Harvard Medical School and
Harvard University Department of Computer Science
Title: “New Methods for Jointly Analyzing GWAS Summary Statistics and Fine-grained Functional Genomics Data

 

 

April 1st, 2016: Richard Barfield
RichardDoctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “Estimating cell type specific associations from whole blood methylation

 

 

CMAstley_PhotoApril 8th, 2016: Christina M. Astley, M.D., Sc.D.
Fellow in Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute
Title: “Mendelian Randomization for traits with complex genetics

 

 

 

April 22nd, 2016: Peter Kraft, Ph.D., and Xia Jiang, Ph.D.
April 2013_KraftProfessor and Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “Quantifying and functionally characterizing the genetic contribution to common cancers: Results from the OncoArray study of ca. 500,000 subjects

 

 

April 29th, 2016: Ryan Sun
RyanSunDoctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “SNP-set Tests Using Generalized Berk-Jones Statistics in Genetic Association Studies

 

 

 

May 13th, 2016: Angelo Canty, Ph.D.
CantyAssociate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Member, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McMaster University
Title: “A Genome-wide Association Study of Longitudinal Renal Function in Type 1 Diabetes

 

 

 

May 20th, 2016: Yu-Han Hsu
YuHan HsuDoctoral Student
Bioinformatics & Integrative Genomics Program
Harvard Medical School
Hirschhorn Lab, Boston Children’s Hospital
Title: “Pathway-based annotation for unknown signals in untargeted metabolomics

 

 

 

Pier PalamaraMay 27th, 2016: Pier Francesco Palamara, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “Reconstructing deep genealogical structure and the phenotypic contribution of rare genetic variation

 

 

June 3rd, 2016: Steven Gazal, Ph.D.
GazalPostdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “The linkage disequilibrium dependent architecture of human complex traits reveals action of negative selection

 

 

June 10th, 2016: Gaurav Bhatia, Ph.D.
bhatiaPostdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Title: “Correcting for subtle stratification in GWAS summary statistics

 

 

 

June 17th, 2016: Mark W. Miller, Ph.D.
MillerClinical Research Psychologist,
National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine
Title: “Neuroimaging-genetic Studies of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury

 

 

 

July 8th, 2016: Shaila Musharoff, PhD
MUSHAROFF-headshotPostdoctoral Scholar, Zaitlen Lab
UCSF Department of Medicine, Lung Biology Center
Title: “Modeling ancestry-dependent phenotypic variance reduces bias and increases power in genetic association studies

 

 

 

July 15th, 2016: Maksim Imakaev
Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “Formation of chromosomal domains by loop extrusion”

 

 

July 22nd, 2016: Erika J. Wolf, PhD
erika_wolfClinical Research Psychologist
National Center for PTSD
VA Boston Healthcare System
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Boston University School of Medicine
Title: “PTSD and Accelerated Aging

 

 

September 9th, 2016: Chi Gao
Doctoral Student
Harvard Chan Department of Epidemiology
Talk Title: “Validation of Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Models using Nurses Health and Nurses Health II Studies

 

 

 

Po-Ru LohSeptember 16th, 2016: Po-Ru Loh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Chan Department of Epidemiology
Talk Title: “Toward an Early-warning System for Leukemia: Characterizing Mosaic Copy Number Abnormalities

 

 

September 23rd, 2016: Armin Schoech
ArminDoctoral Student
Harvard Chan Department of Epidemiology
Harvard Systems Biology Program
Talk Title: “Estimating the Frequency Dependence of SNP Effect Sizes in the UK Biobank Data Set

 

 

CarlaMarquezLunaSeptember 30th, 2016: Carla Marquez Luna
Doctoral Student
Harvard Chan Department of Biostatistics
Talk Title: “Leveraging multiethnic and rare variants annotation to improve polygenic prediction in the UK Biobank Data Set

 

 

October 7th, 2016: Bryce van de Geijn, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Chan Department of Epidemiology
Talk Title: “Leveraging Histone Modification Heritability to Understand Complex Disease Genetics

 

 

Hilary FinucaneOctober 14th, 2016: Hilary Finucane
Doctoral Student
Harvard Chan Department of Epidemiology
MIT Department of Mathematics
Talk Title: “Heritability Enrichment of Specifically Expressed Genes Identifies Disease-relevant Tissues and Cell Types

 

 

XuanyaoOctober 28th, 2016: Xuanyao Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Chan Department of Epidemiology
Talk Title: “Inferring Polygenic Selection by Quantifying the Genetic Component of Phenotypic Differences

 

 

November 18th, 2016: Jun Li
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Chan Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology
Talk Title: “Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation and Acute Coronary Syndrome

 

 

chunyanDecember 2nd, 2016: Chunyan He, Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Post-GWAS Research on Breast Cancer

 

 

 

RichardDecember 9th, 2016: Richard Barfield
Doctoral Student
Harvard Chan Department of Biostatistics
Talk Title: “Assessing the Genetic Effect Mediated through Gene Expression from Summary eQTL and GWAS Data

 

 

December 16th, 2016: Richa Saxena, Ph.D.
saxena
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia,
Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Genetics, Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Talk Title: “Genetics of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in UK Biobank and Links to Disease