PQG Seminar Series

The goal of the PQG Seminar Series is to encourage the exchanging of ideas and promote interaction, collaboration, and research in quantitative genomics.  It seeks to further the development and application of quantitative methods, especially for high dimensional data, as well as focus on the training of quantitative genomic scientists.

2023/2024 Seminar Organizers: Luca Pinello and Wei Zhou 

Please direct any logistical questions to Amanda King

All PQG seminar meetings for the semester will be held in person unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming Seminar


Tuesday, December 5, 2023
1:00-2:00 PM
Updated location: FXB G11

Shamil Sunyaev

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

The puzzling variation of complex traits

 

2022-2023 Dates


September 19, 2023 - Luke O'Connor, Broad Institute

Luke O’Connor

Associate Member
Broad Institute

Graphical models of linkage disequilibrium and applications
Linkage disequilibrium graphical models (LDGMs) are an efficient new approach to model LD, with promising applications in GWAS. They give rise to a very sparse precision matrix whose inverse closely approximates the LD correlation matrix. My talk will cover what LDGMs are, how they are inferred, and why they are useful. Then I will discuss two applications, to polygenic risk prediction and heritability partitioning with GWAS summary statistics.

 

October 24, 2023 - cancelled

 

 

November 7, 2023 - Jinghui Zhang, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jinghui Zhang

Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Therapy-related clonal evolution driven by mutations and structural alterations of pediatric cancers and long-term survivors

 

December 5, 2023 - Shamil Sunyaev, HMS and the Brigham

Shamil Sunyaev

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Function and Population Genetics of Variants Involved in Complex Traits

Feb 6, 2023 - Xiang Zhou, University of Michigan

Xiang Zhou

Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan

 

March 5, 2024 - Ruben Dries, Boston University

 

March 26, 2024 - Bo Wang, University of Toronto

April 23, 2024 - Iuliana Ionita-Laza, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health

May 14, 2024 -


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