Seminar Series

Speaker: James G. Wilson, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Talk Title: "Genetic Research in African Ancestry Populations: Findings and Opportunities"
Host & Intro: Dr. Steve Horvath

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019   

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Speaker: Evan G. Williams, PhD, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH)
Talk Title: "Breakthroughs (And Hype) in Applying Proteomics and Multi-Omics to Complex Trait Genetics"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jake Lusis

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Monday, January 28, 2019

CANCELLED

Speaker: Hooman Allayee, PhD, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Talk Title: "RESCHEDULED TO MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2019"
Host & Intro: Dr. Rita Cantor

Speaker: Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD, Stanford School of Medicine
Talk Title: "Transient nuclear reprogramming promotes multifaceted rejuvenation at the cellular and tissue levels: towards a new cure for aging?"
Host & Intro: Dr. Steve Horvath

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Speaker: Leo D. Wang, MD, PhD, City of Hope National Medical Center
Talk Title: "Engineering CAR T Cells for Pediatric Neuromalignancies"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jessica Li

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Speaker: Amy Goldberg, PhD, Duke University
Talk Title: "Inferring human evolution in tens to hundreds of generations"
Host & Intro: Arun Durvasula

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Speaker: Cynthia Casson Morton, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: "Informing Clinical Interpretations of Structural Chromosome Rearrangements: Implementing Evolving Knowledge from Chromatin Structure"
Host & Intro: Dr. Rita Cantor

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Speaker: Alex K. Shalek, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Talk Title: "Translating Single-Cell Genomics to the Clinic"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jessica Li

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Monday, April 22, 2019

Speaker: Stephan Ripke, MD, PhD, Charite University
Talk Title: "Transdiagnostic Genomics for Precision Medicine in Psychiatry"
Host & Intro: Dr. Roel Ophoff

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Speaker: Hooman Allayee, PhD, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Talk Title: "Integrative Genetic Studies for Complex Traits in Mice and Humans"
Host & Intro: Dr. Rita Cantor

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

10:00 - 11:00 AM

Speaker: Heribert Schunkert, MD, Technical University of München
Talk Title: "Genetics of Myocardial Infarction"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jake Lusis

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Speaker: Vera Gorbunova, PhD, University of Rochester
Talk Title: "Transposable elements - the source of age-related inflammation"
Host & Intro: Dr. Steve Horvath

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Speakers: Brenda DeGerald, Rishi Porecha and Bret Barnes, Illumina Inc, San Diego

Talk Title: "New methylation- and SNP arrays from Illumina"
Host & Intro: Dr. Steve Horvath

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Joint Seminar with Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCDB)

Speaker: Maria Rivera, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University
Talk Title: "The Ribosome Structure, the Ecdysozoa and Lophotrochozoa Phyla, and the Rings of Life: Highlights of Jim Lake’s Contributions to Biology"
Host & Intro: Drs Janet Sinsheimer (Human Genetics) and John Merriam (MCDB)

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Speaker: Kelley Harris, PhD, University of Washington
Talk Title: "The more things change, the more they stay the same: a study of great ape mutation spectrum variation"
Host & Intro: Arun Durvasula

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Speaker: Nandita Garud, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: "Rapid Adaptation in Natural Populations: Lessons from Drosophila and the Human Microbiome"
Host & Intro: Dr. Janet Sinsheimer

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Speaker: Caroline Relton, PhD, University of Bristol
Talk Title: "Investigating the mediating role of molecular mechanisms in common complex diseases using epidemiological tools"
Host & Intro: Dr. Steve Horvath

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Speaker: Jehannine C. Austin, PhD, The University of British Columbia
Talk Title: "Psychiatric genetic counseling: using the products of psychiatric genetics research to improve outcomes for patients"
Host & Intro: Dr. Christina Palmer

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Speaker: Paul Boutros, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Talk Title: "Using cancer genetics to inform non-invasive biomarker development"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paivi Pajukanta

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Speaker: Morten Dybdahl Krebs, MD, Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research
Talk Title: "Genetic heterogeneity across disease trajectories in Schizophrenia"
Host & Intro: Dr. Noah Zaitlen

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Speaker: Michael Gandal, MD, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Talk Title: "Systems-level characterization of genetic risk for psychiatric disorders in human brain"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paivi Pajukanta

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Monday, November 25, 2019

CANCELLED

Speaker: Kathryn Roeder, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Talk Title: CANCELLED
Host & Intro: Dr. Daniel Geschwind

CANCELLED

Speaker: Wenyi Wang, PhD, University of Texas
Talk Title: "Global tumor transcriptional activity reveals aggressiveness across multiple cancers"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paul Boutros

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Speaker: Markku Laakso, MD, PhD, University of Eastern Finland
Talk Title: "Precision medicine in type 2 diabetes"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jake Lusis

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Speaker: Daniel D. De Carvalho, PhD, University of Toronto
Talk Title: "Ultra-Sensitive Tumor Detection and Classification using Methylome Analysis of Plasma cfDNA"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paul Boutros

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Speaker: William Foulkes, MBBS, PhD, McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer
Talk Title: "Inherited defects in microRNA biogenesis and tumor susceptibility"
Host & Intro: Katherine Sheu

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Speaker: Ryan Morin, PhD, Simon Fraser University
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paul Boutros

Speaker: Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Katherine Sheu

Speaker: Francesca Luca, PhD, Wayne State University
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Kirk Lohmueller

Speaker: Pleuni Pennings, PhD, San Francisco State University
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Jazlyn Mooney

Speaker: Noah Zaitlen, PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paivi Pajukanta

Speaker: Clement Chow, PhD, University of Utah
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Kirk Lohmueller

Speaker: Vadim Gladyshev, PhD, Brigham And Women's Hospital
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Steve Horvath

Speaker: Charles R. Farber, PhD, University of Virginia
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jake Lusis

Speaker: Emily Davenport, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Nandita Garud

Speaker: Peter Andolfatto, PhD, Columbia University
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Kirk Lohmueller

Speaker: Ie-Ming Shih, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Katie Leap

Speaker: William Valdar, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Talk Title: "TBD"
Host & Intro: Dr. Jonathan Flint