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
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
2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020.