The Fall 2018 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.
Heritability enrichment of regulatory elements is concentrated in elements with ancient sequence age and conserved function
Margaux Hujoel
Doctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
September 21, 2018
Transcriptomic analysis reveals molecular mechanisms linking radon exposure to breast cancer etiology
Cheng Peng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Channing Lab
October 5, 2018
Asthma Pharmacogenetics from a Health Services Researcher’s Point of View
Ann Wu
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
October 26, 2018
Progress and controversy in understanding the genetic basis of complex human traits
David Balding
University of Melbourne and UCL Genetics Institute
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
(Room change: FXB G03)
Genetic associations between psychiatric disorder risk and phenotypic factors in the UK Biobank
Caitlin Carey
Postdoctoral Associate
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
November 9, 2018
Predicting Skin Cancer Risk
Maryam Asgari
Associate Professor
Department of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School
November 16, 2018
Genome-wide Assessment for Resting Heart Rate and Shared Genetics with Cardio-metabolic Traits and Type 2 Diabetes Using UK Biobank Data
Yanjun Guo
Postdoctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
November 30, 2018
Estimating the autocorrelation of causal SNP effect sizes as a function of genomic distance
Armin Schoech
Doctoral Student
Department of Epidemiology
December 7, 2018
Shared genetic architecture between metabolic traits and Alzheimer’s disease: A large scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis
Yifei Lin
Doctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
December 14, 2018
See Fall 2017 Seminars here.
