Statistical Genetics Seminar Series

Welcome to Statistical Genetics Seminar Series. The Statistical Genetics Seminar meets regularly from 9:30 to 11:00 A.M. every other Friday, (September to June) in 801 Massachusetts Avenue Crosstown building room 305. The goal is to get to know each other, learn cutting edge research, foster collaboration, and get help. The group brainstorms together in September to lay out the year-long topics of interest for discussion. At each session one person or a group of participants or an invited outside speaker presents (formally/informally) the material, usually pertaining to his or her area of expertise, interest or research and leads the discussion. Our participants include a mix of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics students, in addition to Faculty members involved in genetics research.

The Statistical Genetics Seminar Series will be held on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month at 9:30am through zoom for the 2020-2021 academic year. To email gpeloso@bu.edu if you want to be added to the mailing list.

Word Cloud from recent presentation topics

Word Cloud from presentation topics

Current Schedule

Date Topic Presenter Note
9/4/2020 Planning/Brainstorming All
9/18/2020 An Introduction to VA Million Veteran Program (MVP) Research Jenny Huffman VA Boston
10/2/2020 An efficient and accurate frailty model approach for genome-wide survival association analysis controlling for population structure and relatedness in large-scale biobanks Wei Zhou MGH/Broad
10/16/2020 ASHG practice talks/posters Dom, Sophie, Zeyuan BUSPH
11/6/2020 TBD Sam Lent
11/20/2020 CANCELLED – SPH retreat for faculty and staff
12/4/2020 Polygenic scores for type 2 diabetes in diverse populations Josep Maria Mercader Broad
12/18/2020 Multi-Omics Data Integration with Sparse Multiple Canonical Correlation Analysis in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Study Min-Zhi Jiang UNC
1/1/2021 CANCELLED – New Years’ Day
1/15/2021 CANCELLED – Intersession
2/5/2021 Tackling disparities in genetics research: Building the research and researchers together Lori Chibnik Harvard SPH
2/19/2021 TBD Audrey Hendricks UColorado
3/5/2021 Application of statistical genetics in drug discovery and development Audrey Chu GSK
3/19/2021 TBD Honghuang Lin BU Computational Biology
4/2/2021 CANCELLED – Cupples award day before
4/16/2021 Genetics of lipids levels in the population Gina Peloso BU Biostatistics
5/7/2021 CANCELLED – CHARGE meeting
5/21/2021 SSB and branch-chain amino acids Biqi BU Biostatistics

 

Previous Events

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