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: Brenna M. Henn, PhD, University of California (UC), Davis
Talk Title: "No Evidence for Recent Selection at FOXP2 among Diverse Human Populations"
Host & Intro: Jazlyn Mooney

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Speaker: Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä, PhD, University of Eastern Finland
Talk Title: "Integrative genomics of coronary artery disease"
Host & Intro: Dr. Paivi Pajukanta

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Speaker: Sara Mostafavi, PhD, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Talk Title: "Combining heterogeneous genomics data to understand complex human traits"
Host & Intro: Drs Nelson Freimer and Jonathan Flint

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Speaker: Lluis Quintana-Murci, PhD, Pasteur Institute, Paris
Talk Title: "Human (epi)genetic adaptation to pathogens and infectious diseases"
Host & Intro: Drs Kirk Lohmueller and C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim

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Monday, December 17, 2018

Joint Seminar with Integrative Center for Neurogenetics

Speaker: Dan Benjamin, PhD, University of Southern California
Talk Title: "Social-Science Genomics: Promises, Pitfalls, and Progress Report"
Host & Intro: Dr Jonathan Flint

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