Fridays 1:00-2:00pm in the EPI Library (Kresge 907)
The Winter/Spring 2019 PGSG Seminar Series will be held on the following Fridays at 1:00 PM in the Epi Library (Kresge 907).
If you would like to see more information on topics from previous years, please visit our Past PGSG Seminars page.
Fine-mapping with polygenic functional priors
Omer Weissbrod
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
January 4, 2019
A genome-wide association study of circulation plasma metabolomics
Oana Zeleznik
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
January 11, 2019
Investigating the gene-architecture of human complex traits by connecting functional heritability to genes
Steven Gazal
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
January 18, 2019
Genome-wide association studies in over 1,000,000 participants identify more than 400 loci associated with smoking and drinking behaviors
Sarah Kalia
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology
February 1, 2019
The Truth Wears Off? the Reproducibility Crisis in Historical Perspective
Nicole Nelson
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical History and Bioethics
University of Wisconisin-Madison
February 8, 2019
Detection and replication of rare variant driven gene expression outliers via joint modeling of total and allele-specific expression
Bryce van de Geijn
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
March 1, 2019
Quantifying pleiotropy among complex traits
Luke O’Connor
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology
March 8, 2019
Two Tales of Modern Science Data
Martin Zhang
PhD Candidate
EE, Stanford University
March 15, 2019
TBD
Zhaozhong Zhu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
March 29, 2019
TBD
Huwenbo Shi
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
April 5, 2019
TBD
Jun Li
Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology
April 12, 2019
TBD
Farhad Hormozdiari
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
April 19, 2019
TBD
Kushal Dey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
April 26, 2019
TBD
Sharon Lutz
Faculty
Department of Population Medicine
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
May 3, 2019
TBD
Wouter Peyrot
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epidemiology
May 10, 2019
Boosting known functional annotations: prioritizing variants using supervised machine learning
Sam Kim
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology
May 17, 2019
See Spring 2018 Seminars here.
