2014 PGSG Seminars
January 31st, 2014: Rulla Tamimi, Sc.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “NHS Tissue Repository: Research Opportunities and Examples from Breast Cancer”
February 14th, 2014: Alexander Gusev, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Functional Interpretation of Hidden Heritability in Complex Disease”
February 28th, 2014: Peter Kraft, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
and
Sara Lindstroem, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “A Comprehensive Survey of Genetic Variation in over 19,000 Subjects from the Nurses’ Health Study, Nurses’ Health Study 2, and Health Professional Follow Up Study”
March 14th, 2014: Jennifer Sinnott, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Research Fellow
Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Talk Title: “Improving the Power of Genetic Association Tests with Imperfect Phenotype Derived from Electronic Medical Records”
March 28th, 2014: Gaurav Bhatia
Doctoral Student
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Estimating Heritability by Analyzing Haplotypes: Challenges Due to LD, and Potential Ways Forward”
April 11th, 2014: Deanna Alexis Carere, MA, MS, CGC
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
Genetic Counselor and Researcher
Genomes2People Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Talk Title: “The Impact of Personal Genomic Testing on Perceptions of Cancer Risk: Findings from The PGen Study”
April 18th, 2014: Chaolong Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Control for Population Stratification in Case-control Studies when Combining Sequencing and Genotyping Data of Different Samples”
April 25th, 2014: Nadia Micali, MD, MRCPsych, Ph.D., FAED
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist
Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit
Institute of Child Health, University of College London
Talk Title: “Eating Disorders: Investigating Epidemiology and Risk using Population-based Studies”
May 9th, 2014: Godwin Yung
Doctoral Student
Interdisciplinary Research Training in Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Secondary Trait Analysis for Case-control Association/Sequencing Studies”
May 16th, 2014: Allan C. Just, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Talk Title: “Environmental Exposures and Epigenome-wide DNA Methylation: EWAS in the Normative Aging Study”
September 12th, 2014:
Emily Slade
Doctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “Extending Concepts of Gene-Environment Interaction Testing to a DNA Methylation Framework”
and
Chi Gao
Master’s Student
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “Mendelian Randomization Study of Obesity-associated SNPs and Five Cancer Types: Breast, Ovarian, Prostate, Lung and Colorectal Cancer”
Monday September 15th, 2014: Hugues Aschard, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “Playing Musical Chairs in Big Data to Uncover Associations”
September 19th, 2014: Mel Hernandez
Senior Ion Torrent Business Development Lead
Life Science Solutions
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Title: “Introduction to Ion Torrent Next-generation Sequencing and Applications”
September 26th, 2014: Wonil Chung, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “Genetic Risk Prediction of Complex Traits using Multiple Phenotypes”
October 3rd, 2014: Wan Xu, MSc
Research Assistant
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “DNA Extraction Efficiency Estimations for Subclasses of Leukocytes”
and
Hugues Aschard, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “A New Test for Gene-environment Interaction with Measurement Error in E”
October 10th, 2014: Hilary Finucane
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: “Partitioning Heritability by Functional Category using Summary Statistics”
October 24th, 2014: Ga Liao, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Associate Professor of State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases
West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University
Title: “Power to Detect Cell Specific Association in EWAS using Cell Mixture Samples”
November 14th, 2014: Akweley Ablorh
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “Breast Cancer Heritability at 12 Breast Cancer Associated Loci”
December 5th, 2014: Po-Ru Loh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
Title: “Genetic Correlation and Regional Architecture of Complex Traits via Fast Variance Components Analysis”
December 12th, 2014: Deanna Alexis Carere, MA, MS, CGC
Doctoral Student
HSPH Department of Epidemiology
Genetic Counselor and Researcher,
Genomes2People Program
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Title: “Direct-to-consumer Personal Genomic Testing for Pharmacogenetic Variation: Interest, Expectations and Impact in the PGen Study”
See the 2013 Seminars here.
