Portfolio category: Research Talks

Kirk Lohmueller | Comparison of the Distribution of Fitness Effects across Species using the Poisson Random Field Framework | CGSI 2016

08/04/2016 @ 11:15-12:15 Research Talk by Kirk Lohmueller Comparison of the Distribution of Fitness Effects across Species using the Poisson Random Field Framework 1. Sawyer, S.A. and Hartl, D.L., 1992. Population genetics of polymorphism and divergence. Genetics, 132(4), pp.1161-1176. 2. Eyre-Walker, A. and Keightley, P.D., 2007. The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations. Nature…

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Sagi Snir | Research Talk on reconstructing Evolution from the Tiniest Fractions | CGSI 2016

08/04/2016: 10:30-11:15 Research Talk by Sagi Snir Research Talk on reconstructing Evolution from the Tiniest Fractions: Basics, Challenges, and Application 1. Steel, M., 1992. The complexity of reconstructing trees from qualitative characters and subtrees. Journal of classification, 9(1), pp.91-116. 2. Snir, S. and Yuster, R., 2012. Reconstructing approximate phylogenetic trees from quartet samples. SIAM Journal…

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Yi Xing | Elucidating the Complexity of the Mammalian m⁶A Epitranscriptome | CGSI 2016

07/29/2016 @ 11:45-12:30 Research Talk by Yi Xing Elucidating the Complexity of the Mammalian m⁶A Epitranscriptome 1. Molinie, B., Wang, J., Lim, K.S., Hillebrand, R., Lu, Z.X., Van Wittenberghe, N., Howard, B.D., Daneshvar, K., Mullen, A.C., Dedon, P. and Xing, Y., 2016. m6A-LAIC-seq reveals the census and complexity of the m6A epitranscriptome. Nature Methods.

Jonathan Flint | The Genetics of Depression | CGSI 2016

07/29/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Research Talk by Jonathan Flint The Genetics of Depression 1. Flint, J. and Kendler, K.S., 2014. The genetics of major depression. Neuron, 81(3), pp.484-503.

Saharon Rosset | Mixed Modeling for Case-control Genome-wide Studies | CGSI 2016

07/28/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Research Talk by Saharon Rosset Mixed Modeling for Case-control Genome-wide Studies: A Major Challenge 1. Golan, D., Lander, E.S. and Rosset, S., 2014. Measuring missing heritability: inferring the contribution of common variants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(49), pp.E5272-E5281. 2. Golan, D. and Rosset, S., 2014. Effective genetic-risk prediction using…

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Noah Rosenberg | Mathematical Bounds on Population-Genetic Statistics | CGSI 2016

We apologize that this video is not currently available. 07/26/2016 @ 10:15-11:00 Research Talk by Noah Rosenberg Mathematical Bounds on Population-Genetic Statistics 1. Jakobsson, M., Edge, M.D. and Rosenberg, N.A., 2013. The relationship between FST and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Genetics, 193(2), pp.515-528.

Kirk Lohmueller | The Interplay Between Demography and Selection in Dogs, Wolves, and Foxes | CGSI 2016

07/22/2016 @ 15:15-16:0 Research Talk by Kirk Lohmueller The Interplay Between Demography and Selection in Dogs, Wolves, and Foxes 1. Marsden, C.D., Ortega-Del Vecchyo, D., O’Brien, D.P., Taylor, J.F., Ramirez, O., Vilà, C., Marques-Bonet, T., Schnabel, R.D., Wayne, R.K. and Lohmueller, K.E., 2016. Bottlenecks and selective sweeps during domestication have increased deleterious genetic variation in…

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Jingyi Jessica Li | NMFP – Identifying mRNA Isoforms from RNASeq Data | CGSI 2016

07/22/16 @ 14:00-14:45 Research Talk by Jessica (Jingyi) Li NMFP – Identifying mRNA Isoforms from RNASeq Data 1. Ye, Y. and Li, J.J., 2016. NMFP: a non-negative matrix factorization based preselection method to increase accuracy of identifying mRNA isoforms from RNA-seq data. BMC genomics, 17(1), p.11.

Dan Geschwind | Integrative Genomics in Neuropsychiatric Diseases | CGSI 2016

07/21/2016 @ 16:00-16:50 Research Talk by Dan Geschwind Integrative Genomics in Neuropsychiatric Diseases 1. Parikshak, N.N., Gandal, M.J. and Geschwind, D.H., 2015. Systems biology and gene networks in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Nature Reviews Genetics, 16(8), pp.441-458. 2. Parikshak, N.N., Luo, R., Zhang, A., Won, H., Lowe, J.K., Chandran, V., Horvath, S. and Geschwind, D.H.,…

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Brian Browning | Genotype Imputation with Millions of Reference Samples | CGSI 2016

07/21/2016 @ 14:45-15:30 Research Talk by Brian Browning Genotype Imputation with Millions of Reference Samples 1. Marchini, J. and Howie, B., 2010. Genotype imputation for genome-wide association studies. Nature Reviews Genetics, 11(7), pp.499-511. 2. Howie, B., Fuchsberger, C., Stephens, M., Marchini, J. and Abecasis, G.R., 2012. Fast and accurate genotype imputation in genome-wide association studies…

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