Addressing precision medicine gaps in diverse populations
Event Calendar
Join us for our Invited Speaker Series
Center meetings occur virtually every other Thursday at 9:30 am PT
If you are interested in attending as a guest or speaker please email Elad Ziv ([email protected]) for meeting details and logistics. We hope to see you there!
Starting December 2021, lecture recordings will be available for viewing on YouTube within 48 hours.
Past and upcoming speakers
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Date/Time |
Speaker | Affiliation | Title of Presentation |
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Last Update: 02/16/22 |
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| 02/17/22 | Alexander (Sasha) Gusev | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School | Learning the influence of genetic ancestry on cancer outcomes from 25,000 sequenced tumors |
| 02/03/22 | Alicia Martin | Broad Institute/Harvard Medical School | Genomics For the World: a comprehensive framework for genetic studies in diverse populations |
| 12/08/21 | Tim Thornton | University of Washington | Transcriptome-Wide Association Studies (TWAS) in Ancestrally Diverse Populations: Challenges and New Opportunities |
| 12/02/21 | David Conti | USC | A Trans-Ancestry Polygenic Risk Score for Prostate Cancer |
| 10/28/21 | Aleks Rajkovic | UCSF | The 3D study - UCSF's Whole Genome Sequencing Effort |
| 09/30/21 | Elisabeth Atkinson | Baylor College of Medicine | Enabling GWAS in Admixed Populations with Tractor |
| 08/12/21 | Jian Carrot-Zhang | Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Memorial Sloan Kettering CC | |
| 07/29/21 | Eimear Kenny | Icahn School of Medicine Mt Sinai | Race, genetic ancestry and machine learning in genomic medicine." |
| 06/24/21 | Jonathan Witonsky | Post-doctoral fellow, UCSF | Ancestry based lung function prediction |
| 06/10/21 | Dezheng Huo | Professor, University of Chicago | Breast Cancer Epidemiology in Diverse Populations: Etiology and Outcomes |
| 05/13/21 | Genevieve Wojcik | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
The role of ancestry in polygenic risk scores for admixed populations |