Institute for Human Genetics Seminars
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2005-2006
April 24
Joanna Mountain, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropological Sciences
and Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Multilocus Inference of African Prehistory
August 18
Lon Cardon, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioinformatics & Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow
University of Oxford
Emerging Strategies and Expectations for Whole Genome Association Studies
September 9
Mark Seielstad, Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader
Population Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology
Genome Institute of Singapore
The Genetics of Susceptibility to Tuberculosis: a Whole Genome Approach
September 16
Dennis Drayna, Ph.D.
Professor, Howard University
NIDCD/NIH
Rockville, Maryland
Genetics of Human Communication Disorders
September 30
Hua Tang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Population History, Disease and Genetic Variation
October 6
Rick Kittles, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Genetic Ancestry and Prostate Cancer Risk
October 21
Jeff Wall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
University of Southern California
Linkage Disequilibrium and Human Demographic History
November 4
Chiara Sabati, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Human Genetics and Statistics
UCLA
High Density SNP Genotyping: Challenges and Opportunities for Statistical Analysis
December 10
Miguel Robinson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCSD
Health Disparities in the Context of Population Genetics
January 6
Renee Reijo Pera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, OB/GYN
Human Developmental Genetics and Embryonic Stem Cell Research
January 13
Robert Nussbaum, M.D.
Holly Smith Professor in Medicine
Chief, Medical Genetics, Medicine
Genetic Approach to Parkinson Disease
January 20
Whittemore Tingley, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
A Common SNP in AKAP10 Affects Heart Rhythm, Vagus Nerve Sensitivity and Lifespan
January 27
Alea Mills, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Cold Spring Harbor
The Quest for the 1p Tumor Suppressor: A Chromosome Engineering Approach
March 3
Eddy Rame, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Genetic Variation in the Cardiac Hormonal System: Implications for Hypertensive Heart Disease
March 10
Cedric Shackleton, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Senior Scientist, CHORI
Upstream from Cholesterol: Enzyme Defects in Sterol Biosynthesis Associated with Malformation Syndromes
March 24
Steve Hamilton, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Antidepressant Pharmacogenetics
April 7
Saunak Sen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Selective Genotyping in a Complex Trait Context
April 14
Donglei Hu, M.D.
Associate Specialist, General Internal Medicine
Adjustment for Population Stratification
April 28
Matt McQueen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Candidate
Harvard School of Public Health
Mapping Genetic Determinants of Bipolar Disorder
May 12
Luba Kalavdjieva, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Head, Laboratory for Molecular Genetics
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research
Genetics of the Roma
May 19
Lindsey Crisswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc.
Professor of Medicine
The Identification of PTPN22 as an Autoimmunity Susceptibility Gene
June 2
Eric Jorgenson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Coverage and Power in Genome Wide Association Studies
June 9
Damini Jawaheer, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Geneticist
UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
The Genetics of Rheumatoid Arthritis
2006-2007
September 8
Jane Gitschier, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
What I Did on My Summer Sabbatical at Cambridge
September 15
Jennifer Puck, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics
Progress and Challenges in Human Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
October 6
Stefan Feske, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
CBR Institute for Biomedical Research
CRAC Channels and Calcium Signaling in Lymphocytes – New Kids on the Block
October 27
Eric Peters, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCSF
Antidepressant Pharmacogenetics: From Candidate Genes to the Whole Genome
November 3
Kevin Shannon, M.D.
Roma and Marvin Auerback Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Molecular Oncology
Hyperactive Ras in Developmental Disorders and Myeloid Leukemia
November 21
Gail Pairitz Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Mapping Genes for Dyslipidemias
December 1
John Kane, M.D., M.S., Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine
Genetic Determinants of Coronary Artery Disease
December 8
Jose C. Florez, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant in Endocrinology, Diabetes Unit
Research Fellow in Molecular Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Clinical Translation of Genetic Predictors for Type 2 Diabetes
December 15
Penelope Bonnen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Rockefeller University
Leveraging Population Genetics for Gene Mapping
January 5
Elad Ziv, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Association Studies in Admixed Populations
January 12
Ivan Ovcharenko, Ph.D.
Computational Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Using Comparative Genomics to Understand Principles of Gene Regulation
January 19
Paul de Bakker, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Massachusetts General Hospital
Genetic Variation and Human Disease
January 26
Nadav Ahituv, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Joint Genome Institute
Genomic Incursions into the Unconquered Terrains of Human Genetic Disease
February 16
Eric Jorgenson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Genetic Variation and Drug Response
February 2
Louis Ptacek, M.D.
John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Investigator, Howard Hughes
Professor, Neurology
Insights from Rare Mendelian Families in Characterizing the Molecular Basis and Complex Diseases
February 9
Pui Kwok, M.D., Ph.D.
Henry Bachrach Distinguished Professor and Investigator, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Tools for Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits
February 16
Eric Jorgenson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Genetic Variation and Drug Response
February 23
Gabriela Loots, Ph.D.
Senior Biomedical Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Use of Animal Models to Explore the Human Regulatory Genome in Health and Disease
March 2
Julie Andersen Ph.D.
Professor, Buck Institute for Age Research
Iron Dysregulation in Parkinson Disease
March 8
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
UCSD
An Essential Role for the L1S1 Neuronal Migration Complex in Neurogenesis and Mitosis
March 9
Chris Vulpe, Ph.D., M.D.
Associate Professor
UCB
Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Genetic Variation in Iron Metabolism
March 23
Jorge Oksenberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Neurology
Multiple Sclerosis Genetics: Leaving No Stone Unturned
April 6
Joseph Costello, Ph.D.
Karen Osney Brownstein Endowed Chair in Molecular Neuro-Oncology
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
Genome-Epigenome Interactions in Human Tumorigenesis
April 12
Bruce Ponder, FRCP, FRS
Director, Cancer Research
UK Cambridge Research Institute
Polygenic Susceptibility to Cancer: Gene Discovery and Practical Implications
April 13
Eddy Rubin, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Scientist
DOE Joint Genome Institute
Genome-Wide Studies of Human Gene Regulation
April 27
Anne Slavotinek, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Gene Identification in Sporadic Birth Defects
May 3
Mitchell Gail, M.D., Ph.D.
National Cancer Institute
May 4
Mike Boehnke, Ph.D.
Richard G. Cornell Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan, School of Public Health
A Genomewide Association Study for Type 2 Diabetes in Finns
May 11
Christian Vaisse, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine
Genetics of Metabolic Diseases
May 25
Helen Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Approaches for Population Stratification, Multivariate Phenotypes, and Linkage and Admixture Mapping
June 1
Kenneth Lange, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomathematics and Human Genetics
UCLA
Statistical and Mathematical Methods for Human Genetics and Population Growth, Image Reconstruction Algorithms
June 8
Laura Bull, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine
Study of Disease Caused by Mutation in FIC1(ATP8B1), and Characterization of Mouse Models of ATP8B1 Disease
2007-2008
November 2, 2007
Cornelia Van Duijin, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Dept Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
Genome Wide Association and Linkage Studies on Complex Diseases in a Genetically Isolated Dutch Population
December 7, 2007
Ying-Hui Fu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Neurology Department, UCSF
Lamin B1 Duplications Cause Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy
January 11, 2008
Rob Graham, Ph.D.
Scientist, Genentech, Inc.
Identification of Novel Risk Loci in Human Lupus Through Genome-Wide Association Scans
February 8, 2008
Alkes Price, Ph.D.
Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Population Structure in Genetic Association Studies: A Curse or a Blessing?
February 15, 2008
Paul Scheet, Ph.D.
Fellow, University of Michigan, Biostatistics
Linkage Disequilibrium-based Association Mapping and Worldwide Haplotype Variation
March 13, 2008
Hunter Fraser, Ph.D.
Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Common Polymorphic Transcript Variation in Humans
March 21, 2008
Gad Kimmel, Ph.D.
Fellow, UC Berkeley
Computational Problems in Human Genetics
May 2, 2008
Nadav Ahituv, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Institute for Human Genetics, UCSF
In Vivo Characterization of Evolutionary Conserved Noncoding Sequences
June 6, 2008
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D.
Charles J. Epstein Professor in Human Genetics & Pediatrics
Chief, Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, UCSF
Human Lissencephaly: Smooth Brains, Neuronal Migration and Neurogenesis
2008-2009
August 18
Eric Sijbrands, M.D. Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Genetics
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Modifier Genes of Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Candidate Methods and Genome-Wide Association Studies
September 15
Eric Schadt, Ph.D.
Executive Scientific Director, Genetics
Rosetta Inpharmatics, LLC/Merck Research Labs
Seattle, WA
Reconstructing the circuits of disease: From molecular states to physiological states
October 6, 2008
Walter Miller, M.D.
Chief, Endocrinology, UCSF
Genetics of P450 Oxidoreductase Deficiency: A New Disorder of Steroidogenesis Causing a Broad Spectrum of Human Disease”
November 3, 2008
Sergio Baranzini, Ph.D.
Neurology, UCSF
Mining GWAS Through Network-Based Pathway Analysis
December 1, 2008
Jill Hardin, Ph.D.
An Epidemiologic Investigation of the California Twin Population
January 5, 2009
Emmanuel Mignot, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Stanford University Center for Narcolepsy
Genetics of the Sleep Disorder Narcolepsy
January 12, 2009
Richard Shippy, Ph.D.
Affymetrix, Inc.
Personal MAQC Experience, Updata on Key Labs Using 6.0 for Copy Number Analysis & Innovative Software for Cytogenetic Work
January 13, 2009
Jun Song, Ph.D.
The Simons Center for Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study
Discovering Connections Among Chromatin, microRNAs, and Transcription Factors
February 2, 2009
Rosemary Akhurst, Ph.D.
Professor, Cancer Research Institute
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF
Genetic Modifiers of Development and Disease: From Mouse to Human
February 3, 2009
Sohini Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
The Spatial Distribution of Human Genetic Variation Across Continents and Chromosomes
February 5, 2009
David Conti, Ph.D.
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Pathway Thinking in Genome-Wide Times
February 9, 2009
Martin Storm, Ph.D.
Applied Biosystems, Inc.
SOLiD: Next Generation Sequencing Using SOLiD for Whole Transcriptome Profiling
February 13, 2009
Steven J. Schrodi, Ph.D.
Celera Corporation
Mapping Autoimmune Disease Genes Through Association: Experimental Data, Statistical Analysis, and Genetics Theory
February 17, 2009
Steven McCarroll, Ph.D.
Structural and Regulatory Variation in Human Genomes
March 2, 2009
Sharon Chung, M.D., M.A.S.
Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, UCSF
European Population Substructure and Phenotypic Variation in Lupus
March 4, 2009
Val C. Sheffield, M.D., Ph.D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa
The Molecular Genetics of Human Obesity Syndrome
March 9, 2009
Jennifer Wessel, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Navigenics
Genetic Epidemiology in the Whole Genome Era and Its Application to Communicating Genetic Risk for Common Diseases
March 10, 2009
Jason D. Barbour, Ph.D., M.H.S.
Positive Health Program, SFGH Department of Medicine, UCSF
Decryption of KIR Genetics and Natural Killer Cell Function in Early HIV-1 Disease
March 12, 2009
Yoav Gilad, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Comparative Functional Genomics in Primates
March 17, 2009
Noah Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan
Worldwide Human Genetic Variation: Implications for Disease-Association Studies in Diverse Populations
March 18, 2009
Mark Seielstad, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore
What Have Genome-Wide Association Studies Revealed About Immune-Related Diseases?
March 19, 2009
Dennis Drayna, Ph.D.
National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
National Institute of Health
Genetic Studies of Stuttering
March 23, 2009
Ryan Hernandez, Ph.D.
Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Distinguishing the Evolutionary Forces Driving Global Patterns of Human Genetic Variation
April 13, 2009
Caroline Dando, Ph.D.
Fluidigm, Inc.
Fluidigm BioMark System for High Throughput Gene Expression Analysis, Genotyping and Digital PCR
May 4, 2009
Carol Mathews, M.D.
Program for Genetics and Epidemiology of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
Department of Psychiatry, UCSF
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: What is the Best Phenotype for Genetic Studies?
May 11, 2009
Wilson Liao, M.D.
Department of Dermatology, UCSF
Case Study in Stabilization of Genomic DNA at Room Temperature
August 17, 2009
Dr. Santhi K. Ganesh
National Human Genome Research Institute
Genetics of Vascular Remodeling
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