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Unless otherwise specified, all event details are as follows:
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: Gonda Building 1st Floor Conference Room, 1357

2019 Human Genetics Seminar Series

Date Seminar Information
Monday, January 14, 2019          

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

Click here for Dr. Wilson's seminar flyer

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

Click here for Dr. William's seminar flyer

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

Monday, February 11, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Sebastiano's seminar flyer

Monday, March 4, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Wang's seminar flyer

Monday, March 18, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Goldberg's seminar flyer

Monday, March 25, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Morton's seminar flyer

Monday, April 1, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Shalek's seminar flyer

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

Click here for Dr. Ripke's seminar flyer

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

Click here for Dr. Allayee's seminar flyer

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

Click here for Dr. Schunkert's seminar flyer

Monday, May 6, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Gorbunova's seminar flyer

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

Click here for talk flyer

Monday, June 3, 2019

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)

Click here for Dr. Rivera's seminar flyer

Monday, June 10, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Harris' seminar flyer

Monday, October 7, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Garud's seminar flyer

Monday, October 21, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Relton's seminar flyer

Friday, October 25, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Austin's seminar flyer

Monday, October 28, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Boutros' seminar flyer

Monday, November 4, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Krebs' seminar flyer

Monday, November 18, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Gandal's seminar flyer

Monday, November 25, 2019

CANCELLED

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

CANCELLED

Monday, December 2, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Wang's seminar flyer

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Laakso's seminar flyer

Monday, December 9, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. De Carvalho's flyer

Monday, December 16, 2019

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

Click here for Dr. Foulkes' seminar flyer

2020 Human Genetics Seminar Series

Date Seminar Information
Monday, January 13, 2020

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

Monday, January 27, 2020

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

Monday, February 10, 2020

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

Monday, March 2, 2020

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

Monday, March 9, 2020

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

Monday, March 23, 2020

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

Monday, March 30, 2020

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

Monday, April 6, 2020

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

Monday, April 13, 2020

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

Monday, April 20, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020

Monday, May 4, 2020

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

Monday, May 11, 2020

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

Monday, May 18, 2020

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

Monday, June 1, 2020
Monday, June 8, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020

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