08/09/2017 UCLA Undergraduate Research Program in Neurogenetics 12:00pm in the MacDonald Research Labs First Floor Conference Room Research Talk by Roel Ophoff Genomic Studies of Psychiatric Disorders
07/26/2017 UCLA Undergraduate Research Program in Neurogenetics 12:00pm in the Gonda First Floor Conference Room Research Talk by Jonathan Flint Genes can “Influence” Personality and Behavior
07/19/2017 UCLA Undergraduate Research Program in Neurogenetics 12:00pm in the Gonda First Floor Conference Room Research Talk by Nelson Freimer The Depression Grand Challenge: UCLA’s Big Data Initiative for Brain Health
07/26/2017 @ 10:30-11:00 Research Talk by Barbara Engelhardt Joint analysis of gene expression levels and histological images identifies genes associated with tissue morphology 1. Heard, N.A., Holmes, C.C. and Stephens, D.A., 2006. A quantitative study of gene regulation involved in the immune response of anopheline mosquitoes: An application of Bayesian hierarchical clustering of curves. Journal…
07/25/2017 @ 13:30-14:15 Research Talk by Fereydoun Hormozdiari Discovery of genetic variants and modules in neurodevelopmental disorders 1. O’Roak, B.J., Vives, L., Girirajan, S., Karakoc, E., Krumm, N., Coe, B.P., Levy, R., Ko, A., Lee, C., Smith, J.D. and Turner, E.H., 2012. Sporadic autism exomes reveal a highly interconnected protein network of de novo mutations….
07/25/2017 @ 10:30-11:30 Research Talk by Kirk Lohmueller Variation in positive and negative selection across the Tree of Life 1. Galtier, N., 2016. Adaptive protein evolution in animals and the effective population size hypothesis. PLoS Genet, 12(1), p.e1005774. 2. Kim, B.Y., Huber, C.D. and Lohmueller, K.E., 2016. Inference of the distribution of selection coefficients for…
07/25/2017 @ 09:00-10:00 Research Talk by Sriram Sankararaman Probabilistic PCA for large-scale genetic data
07/24/2017 @ 13:30-14:15 Research Talk by Fabio Vandin Computational methods for survival analysis in genome-wide cancer studies 1. Vandin, F., Upfal, E. and Raphael, B.J., 2011. Algorithms for detecting significantly mutated pathways in cancer. Journal of Computational Biology, 18(3), pp.507-522. 2. Raphael, B.J., Dobson, J.R., Oesper, L. and Vandin, F., 2014. Identifying driver mutations in…
07/24/2017 @ 10:30-11:15 Research Talk by Jessica (Jingyi) Li Neyman-Pearson (NP) classification algorithms and NP Receiver Operating Characteristic (NP-ROC) curves 1. Tong, X., Feng, Y. and Li, J.J., 2016. Neyman-Pearson (NP) classification algorithms and NP receiver operating characteristic (NP-ROC) curves. arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03109. 2. Li, J.J. and Tong, X., 2016. Genomic Applications of the Neyman–Pearson…
07/21/2017 @ 13:30-14:15 Research Talk by Sagiv Shifman Genomics approaches to study neurodevelopmental disorders 1. Ben-David, E. and Shifman, S., 2012. Networks of neuronal genes affected by common and rare variants in autism spectrum disorders. PLoS Genet, 8(3), p.e1002556. 2. Ben-David, E. and Shifman, S., 2013. Combined analysis of exome sequencing points toward a major…