Institute for Human Genetics
Seminar Series and Journal Club

The Institute for Human Genetics Journal Club will be held on the 3rd Monday of each month at noon in room HSW 302. Lunch will be provided.
 
In addition to a new day and time, the Human Genetics Journal Club will now provide a forum for open discussion about topical issues in Human Genetics.  Journal articles will still provide an impetus for the Club, but instead of formally presenting the article in a lecture format, leaders will give a brief overview and then facilitate discussion among the attendees.  Tangential issues and intellectual differences of opinion are encouraged! Please go to http://ucsf.junto.googlepages.com/ for current schedule and papers to be discussed.

The seminars will be held in S214 unless noted below.

Friday, November 2
Corneila Van Duijin
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
Genome Wide Association and Linkage Studies on Complex Diseases in a
Genetically Isolated Dutch Population

Monday, November 26
12:00
Journal Club

Friday, December 7
Ying-Hui Fu
Professor, Neurology
Lamin B1 Duplications Cause Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy

Monday, December 17
Journal Club

Friday, January 11
Rob Graham, Ph.D.
Scientist
Genentech, Inc.
Identification of Novel Risk Loci in Human Lupus Through Genome-Wide Association Scans

Monday, January 14
12:00
Journal Club

Friday, February 8
Lecture in HSW 302
Faculty Candidate Lecture
Alkes Price
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT
Population Structure in Genetic Association Studies: A Curse or a Blessing?

Friday, February 15
Faculty Candidate Lecture
Paul Scheet
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan
Linkage Disequilibrium-Based Association Mapping and
Worldwide Haplotype Variation

Monday, February 18
12:00
Journal Club

Thursday, February 21
Lecture in HSW 303, 4:00
Faculty Candidate Lecture
Lauren Weiss
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Research Unit
Center for Human Genetic Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
A Genome-Wide Study of Autism

Thursday, March 13
Lecture in S214 at 2:00
Faculty Candidate Lecture
Hunter Fraser
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Common Polymorphic Transcript Variation in Humans

Monday, March 17
12:00
Journal Club

Friday, March 21
Faculty Candidate Lecture
Gad Kimmel
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Computer Science Division
UC Berkeley
Computational Problems in Human Genetics

Friday, May 2
Nadav Ahituv
In vivo characterization of evolutionary conserved noncoding sequences

Friday, June 6
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris
TBA