Sriram Sankararaman | Inferring the Structure of Archaic Admixture in Modern Humans | CGSI 2016

08/05/2016 @ 11:15-12:00 Research Talk by Sriram Sankararaman Inferring the Structure of Archaic Admixture in Modern Humans 1. Patterson, N., Moorjani, P., Luo, Y., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Zhan, Y., Genschoreck, T., Webster, T. and Reich, D., 2012. Ancient admixture in human history. Genetics, 192(3), pp.1065-1093. 2. Sankararaman, S., Patterson, N., Li, H., Pääbo, S….

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…

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…

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

08/03/2016 @ 10:30-11:30 Tutorial by Sagi Snir Tutorial on reconstructing Evolution from the Tiniest Fractions: Basics, Challenges, and Application 1. Hinchliff, C.E., Smith, S.A., Allman, J.F., Burleigh, J.G., Chaudhary, R., Coghill, L.M., Crandall, K.A., Deng, J., Drew, B.T., Gazis, R. and Gude, K., 2015. Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life….

Noah Zaitlen | Conditioning in Association Studies | CGSI 2016

08/02/2016 @ 11:15-12:00 Tutorial by Noah Zaitlen Conditioning in Association Studies 1. Zaitlen, N., Lindström, S., Pasaniuc, B., Cornelis, M., Genovese, G., Pollack, S., Barton, A., Bickeböller, H., Bowden, D.W., Eyre, S. and Freedman, B.I., 2012. Informed conditioning on clinical covariates increases power in case-control association studies. PLoS Genet, 8(11), p.e1003032. 2. Aschard, H., Vilhjalmsson,…

Bogdan Pasaniuc | Integrative Fine-mapping for Causal Variants | CGSI 2016

08/02/2016 @ 10:30-11:15 Tutorial by Bogdan Pasaniuc Integrative Fine-mapping for Causal Variants 1. Kichaev, G. and Pasaniuc, B., 2015. Leveraging functional-annotation data in trans-ethnic fine-mapping studies. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 97(2), pp.260-271. 2. Kichaev, G., Yang, W.Y., Lindstrom, S., Hormozdiari, F., Eskin, E., Price, A.L., Kraft, P. and Pasaniuc, B., 2014. Integrating functional…

Emilia Huerta-Sanchez | Evolutionary Adaptation in Humans | CGSI 2016

08/01/2016 @ 10:15-11:00 Tutorial by Emilia Huerta-Sanchez Evolutionary Adaptation in Humans 1. Nielsen, R., 2005. Molecular signatures of natural selection. Annu. Rev. Genet., 39, pp.197-218. 2. Vitti, J.J., Grossman, S.R. and Sabeti, P.C., 2013. Detecting natural selection in genomic data. Annual review of genetics, 47, pp.97-120. 3. Racimo, F., Sankararaman, S., Nielsen, R. and Huerta-Sánchez,…

Jason Ernst | Epigenome Imputation | CGSI 2016

08/01/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Tutorial by Jason Ernst Epigenome Imputation 1. Ernst, J. and Kellis, M., 2015. Large-scale imputation of epigenomic datasets for systematic annotation of diverse human tissues. Nature biotechnology, 33(4), pp.364-376. 2. Kundaje, A., Meuleman, W., Ernst, J., Bilenky, M., Yen, A., Heravi-Moussavi, A., Kheradpour, P., Zhang, Z., Wang, J., Ziller, M.J. and Amin,…