The role of Genomics and Metagenomics in Human Health
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Ryan Hernandez, McGill University
Monday Feb 4, 2019 09:07 - 09:34
Human evolutionary history has shaped the genetic architecture of complex trait.
Kirk Lohmueller, University of California, Los Angeles
Monday Feb 4, 2019 09:41 - 10:11
Inference of the mutational target size supports the omnigenic model for complex traits.
Iain Mathieson, University of Pennsylvania
Monday Feb 4, 2019 10:13 - 10:33
Performance of polygenic risk scores in diverse populations.
Julia Fukuyama, Indiana University
Monday Feb 4, 2019 11:04 - 11:32
Unboxing a black box: Properties of phylogenetically-informed distances for microbiome data.
ZhengZheng Tang, University of Wisconsin Madison
Monday Feb 4, 2019 11:37 - 12:08
Zero-Inflated Generalized Dirichlet Multinomial (ZIGDM) Regression Model for Microbiome Compositional Data.
Christian Mueller, Simons Foundation
Monday Feb 4, 2019 12:09 - 12:35
It’s just a matter of perspective - tuning-insensitive and robust sparse regression for microbiome data.
Hugues Aschard, Pasteur Institute
Monday Feb 4, 2019 14:00 - 14:30
Balancing complexity in inferring genetic network of multifactorial diseases.
Hae Kyung Im, University of Chicago
Monday Feb 4, 2019 14:33 - 14:58
Current and future method development opportunities to understand the biology of complex traits.
Celia Greenwood, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Monday Feb 4, 2019 15:14 - 15:46
Smooth modeling of covariate effects in bisulfite sequencing-derived measures of DNA methylation.
Xihong Lin, Harvard University
Monday Feb 4, 2019 16:10 - 16:40
Dynamic Scan Procedure for Detecting Rare-Variant Association Regions in Whole Genome Sequencing Studies.
Michael Hoffman, University Health Network/University of Toronto
Monday Feb 4, 2019 17:23 - 17:48
Virtual ChIP-seq: predicting transcription factor binding by learning from the transcriptome.
Ma Jing, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 09:03 - 09:20
Improved Variance Component Score Tests of Marker-Environment Interactions.
Kristin Wallace, Medical University of South Carolina
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 09:32 - 10:03
Racial differences in microbial and immune infiltrate in colorectal cancers.
Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 10:07 - 10:47
Estimating the overall contribution of human oral microbiome to the risk of developing cancers based on prospective studies.
Mingyao Li, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 11:37 - 12:13
Deep learning enables accurate clustering and batch effect removal in single-cell RNA-seq analysis.
Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 12:13 - 12:39
Learning from the Transcriptome: analysis of single cell and bulk RNA sequence data.
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Brown University
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 14:02 - 14:30
Archaic introgression in admixed individuals.
Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 14:34 - 15:14
Inference of population structure from time-series genotype data.
Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 15:44 - 16:21
Leveraging Polygenic Architecture of Complex Traits to Inform Biology, Causality and Prediction.
William Xiaoquan Wen, University of Michigan
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 16:23 - 16:51
Bayesian TWAS: a causal inference approach.
Xin He, University of Chicago
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 16:53 - 17:24
Accounting for confounding in Mendelian randomization analyses of summary statistics from genome-wide association studies.
Xiang Zhou, University of Michigan
Tuesday Feb 5, 2019 17:25 - 17:50
Controlling and Testing Horizontal Pleiotropic Effect with the Probabilistic Two- Sample Mendelian Randomization for Transcriptome Wide Association Studies.
Ekta Khurana, Weill Cornell Medicine
Wednesday Feb 6, 2019 09:05 - 09:36
Prediction of the impact of mutations on chromatin conformation using deep learning.
Luis Barreiro, University of Chicago
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 09:32 - 10:11
Pathogen exposure and pathogen type moderate social status effects on gene regulation in adulthood
Lluis Quintana-Murci, Pasteur Institute
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 10:12 - 10:46
Evolutionary genetic dissection of the genus Homo and its immune response
Michael Epstein, EMORY UNIVERSITY
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 11:09 - 11:34
Flexible Strategies for Identifying Factors Involved in Genetic or Metabolic Dysregulation.
Ying Wei, Columbia University
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 11:41 - 12:11
Quantile Regression in the Post GWAS Secondary Phenotype Analysis.
Andrew Allen, Duke University
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 12:15 - 13:24
Improved Pathogenic Variant Localization using a Hierarchical Model of Sub-regional Intolerance.
Laura Scott, University of Michigan
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 14:31 - 14:58
Determinants of differential gene expression in skeletal muscle and in adipose tissue.
Michael Sohn, University of Rochester
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 15:31 - 15:56
Compositional Mediation Model for Binary Outcome.
Zhigang Li, University of Florida
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 15:57 - 16:26
Mediation analysis for zero-inflated mediators.
Lei Liu, Washington University in Saint Louis
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 16:27 - 16:59
Testing mediation effect in high-dimensional compositional microbiome data.
Huilin Li, New York University
Thursday Feb 7, 2019 17:01 - 17:32
A powerful two-stage microbiome-wide association test.
