The International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) and group discussions are free and OPEN TO ALL.
Seminars are broadcast to research centers interested in participating online.
Unless otherwise indicated, seminars and group discussions will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST on the first Friday of every month.
With this series, and in the context of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics research, STAGE aims to:
Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host | |
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Oct. 7, 2022 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Teri Manolio, MD, PhD Director, Division of Genomic Medicine National Human Genome Research Institute | Genomic Diversity and Genomic Healthcare | Andrew Paterson | |
Dec 2, 2022 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Andrea Ganna, PhD Instructor in Investigation, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Mass General Research Institute; Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School | Translating results from large-scale genetic association studies into public health-relevant measures. | Rayjean Hung | |
Mar 3, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Sylvia Richardson, PhD Programme Leader, Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit (BSU) Research Professor University of Cambridge | TBD | Shelley Bull | |
May 5, 2023 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Hugo Aerts, PhD Associate Professor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Director, Program for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Brigham and Women's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | TBD | TBD |
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Oct. 1, 2021 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Benjamin Neale, PhD Director, Genomics of Public Health Initiative, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Institute Member and Director, Genetics, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Disease, Broad Institute | Genetic methods for biology and epidemiology | James L. Kennedy | |
Nov. 5, 2021 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Jordana Bell, PhD Reader (Associate Professor) in Epigenomics Head of Epigenomics Research Group Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology Faculty of Life Sciences & MedicineKing’s College London | Genetic impacts on human methylome variation | Rayjean Hung | |
Dec 3, 2021 | 12:00-1:00 pm | Antonis Antoniou, PhD Professor of Cancer Risk Prediction Academic Course Director MPhil in Epidemiology Department of Public Health and Primary Care,University of Cambridge | CanRisk: Personalising cancer risk prediction for prevention and early detection | Jennifer Brooks | |
Feb. 4, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 pm | David Balding, PhD, FAA Professor of Statistical Genetics Melbourne Integrative Genomics Schools of BioSciences and of Maths & Stats University of Melbourne | How are the causes of complex disease distributed in the human genome? | Laurent Briollais | |
Mar 4, 2022 | 12:00-1:00 pm | André Uitterlinden, PhD Professor of Complex Genetics Head Genetic Laboratory and Human Genomics Facility Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands | Towards implementing (complex) genetics in health care settings. | Andrew Paterson | |
May 6, 2022 | 12:00-1:00 pm | David Conti, PhD Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California | Development of a Trans-Ancestry Genetic Risk Score for Prostate Cancer | TBC |
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Oct. 2, 2020 Register HERE | 12:00-1:00 pm | ![]() | Dr. Joan E. Bailey-Wilson Head, Statistical Genetics Section Co-Branch Chief, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch National Human Genome Research Institute National Institutes of Health, USA. | Detecting germline risk variants for complex diseases with illustrations for rare variants | Rayjean Hung |
Nov. 6, 2020 Register HERE | 12:00-1:00 pm | ![]() | Genevera I. Allen, Ph.D. Founder & Faculty Director, Rice D2K Lab Associate Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics & Computer Science, Rice University Investigator, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine | Data Integration: Data-Driven Discovery from Diverse Data Sources Abstract | France Gagnon |
Dec. 4, 2020 Register HERE | 12:00-1:00 pm | ![]() | Dr. Kathryn Roeder UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences Department of Statistics and Computational Biology Vice Provost for Faculty Carnegie Mellon University | Statistics and Genetics Offer a Window into Autism Abstract | Lei Sun |
Mar. 5, 2021 Register HERE | 12:00-1:00 pm | ![]() | Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP Dr. Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health The University of Chicago Medicine | What African Genomes Tell Us About the Origins of Breast Cancer | Steven Narod |
May 7, 2021 Register HERE | 12:00-1:00 pm | ![]() | Clare Turnbull, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath, MFPH, DCH, MA, MSc (Epidemiology) Professor of Medical Genomics, Institute of Cancer Research, London Honorary Consultant in Clinical Cancer Genetics, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health England, London | Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genetics: Expansion of Testing and Emerging Challenges | Jennifer Brooks |
Jun. 4, 2021 Register HERE | 12:00-1:00 pm | ![]() | Heather J. Cordell, PhD Professor of Statistical Genetics | A Bayesian network approach incorporating imputation of missing data enables exploratory analysis of complex causal biological relationshipsAbstract | TBC |
Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Partner | |
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October 25, 2019 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | ![]() |
Digging genomes for propelling medicine and understanding our past. Abstract | McLaughlin Centre, SickKids | |
November 1, 2019 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | ![]() |
Complexity of cancer susceptibility | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
December 6, 2019 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | ![]() |
The impact of early microbiome exposures on early life development and disease Poster and Abstract | The Hospital for Sick Children | |
April 3, 2020
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June 5, 2020 Register HERE | 12:00pm - 1:00pm | ![]() |
SNPs, Statistics, and Society: Lessons from Addiction Genetics Research |
Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Partner | |
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October 5, 2018 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
The Nature of Nurture: Effects of Parental Genotypes Abstract | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
March 22, 2019 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Inferring causal pathways from data: challenges and some solutions Abstract | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
May 21, 2019 | 10:30am to 11:30am (Princess Margaret Hospital Auditorium 6-604, 610 University Ave) | ![]() |
Racial Disparities and Precision Prevention of Colon Neoplasia Abstract | University Health Network | |
June 7, 2019 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Mapping the structure of genetic risk for common disease in the UK Biobank Abstract | McLaughlin Centre |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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October 6, 2017 | 12:15pm to 1:15pm | ![]() |
Insights into Human Health and Cardiometabolic Disease Using Large-Scale Genomics Abstract | Sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
November 3, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Come Join the Multiple Testing Party! Abstract | Sponsored by Ontario Institute for Cancer Research | |
December 1, 2017 | 12:15pm to 1:15pm | ![]() |
Examination of human knock-in models to identify protective genetic factors for Alzheimer disease: Exploring PSEN1 founder mutation carriers and adults with Down syndrome Abstract | Sponsored by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program | |
February 2, 2018 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Successful localization of genes that predispose to epilepsy using large pedigrees Abstract | Sponsored by CAMH | |
March 2, 2018 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Statistical Fine-mapping: Methods to Move Beyond Genome-Wide Association Studies Abstract | Sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
April 6, 2018 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Complex Model Building for Precision Medicine using Summary-Level Information from Big Data Sources Abstract | Sponsored by Ontario Institute for Cancer Research | |
May 4, 2018 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Adventures in the land of complex disease etiology with large clinical datasets Abstract | Sponsored by McLaughlin Centre | |
May 31, 2018 | 9:00am to 10:00am | ![]() |
Transancestral mapping and genetic load in systemic lupus erythematosus Abstract | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids | |
June 1, 2018 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Predictive ability of SLE genetic risk factors varies across ethnicities Abstract | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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September 30, 2016 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Recent advances in the integrative molecular epidemiology of breast cancer. Abstract: click here | Sponsored by OICR | |
November 4, 2016 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
The Genomics and Epigenomics of Prostate Cancer Abstract | Sponsored by McLaughlin Centre | |
December 2, 2016 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Computational re-annotation of the human transcriptome with the recount project Abstract | Sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
February 3, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Sequencing and Analysis of 10,000s of Human Genomes: Challenges and Opportunities Abstract | Sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
March 3, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Psychiatric Genomics and Pharmacogenomics: Recent Advances and Ongoing Challenges Abstract | Sponsored by CAMH | |
April 7, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Gene-Environment Interactions in Cardiovascular Disease: Air Pollution and Stress Abstract | Sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | |
May 5, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Integrative Molecular Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer Abstract | Sponsored by OICR | |
June 1, 2017 | 9:00am to 10:00am | ![]() |
Genetic Epidemiology Research Based in Electronic Health Records, Part 1. Population Structure, Mating Patterns and Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity Abstract | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids | |
June 2, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Genetic Epidemiology Research Based in Electronic Health Records, Part 2. Linking the genome to longitudinal disease and trait data Abstract | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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February 5, 2016 | noon to 1:00pm | ![]() |
A Method to Estimate the Contribution of Regional Genetic Associations to Complex Traits from Summary Association Statistics | France Gagnon This is a partnered seminar with the Centre for Genetic Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children | |
March 4, 2016 | noon to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Genome-wide mutation rates viewed through a seven-nucleotide window | Anna Goldenberg This is a partnered seminar with The McLaughlin Centre, University of Toronto | |
April 1, 2016 | CANCELED Will be rescheduled for a later date. | ![]() |
Molecular epidemiology of ovarian cancer | Jennifer Brooks This is a partnered seminar with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. | |
May 6, 2016 | 2016 Biostatistics Research Day | ||||
June 3, 2016 | noon to 1:00pm | ![]() |
Addressing the Correlated Feature in Sequencing-Based DNA Methylation Data for Detection of Differentially Methylated Regions | Shelley Bull This is a partnered seminar with the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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Oct. 3, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
What proportion of oropharynx cancers are caused by HPV, and can we use HPV antibodies to identify them early? | Rayjean Hung | |
Nov. 7, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Development of Predictive Classifiers Based on High Dimensional Data Validation for an Intended Use | Shelley Bull | |
Dec. 5, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Decoding the human genome: Reading nature’s text, punctuation, and ongoing edits | Michael Wilson | |
noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
TBC | TBC | ||
Mar. 6, 2015 | noon to 1:00 pm | TBC | TBC | TBC | |
Apr. 10, 2015 | noon to 1:00 pm | TBC | TBC | ||
May 1, 2015 | noon to 1:00 pm | TBC | TBC | ||
Jun. 5, 2015 | noon to 1:00 pm | TBC | TBC | TBC |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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Oct. 4, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Probability Machines: Estimating individual probabilities using machine learning methods | France Gagnon | |
Nov. 1, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Statistical analysis of pooled samples for whole-genome case-control associations: A SNP GWAS of lung cancer susceptibility genes in the Northern Thai population | France Gagnon | |
Dec. 6, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | Rescheduled for April 4, 2014. | |||
Jan. 31, 2014 | 1:00 to 2:00 pm | ![]() |
Genetic dissection of complex infection phenotypes | France Gagnon | |
Mar. 7, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Genetic Architecture of Lung Cancer Susceptibility | Rayjean Hung | |
Apr. 4, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Gene-environment interactions: new directions and novel applications | Howard Hu | |
May 2, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Explaining heritability and predicting risk with polygenic scores | Shelley Bull | |
Jun. 6, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Statistical Genetics and Genomics in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges in Research and Training | TBC |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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Sep. 14, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Genetics of Early Growth ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Lyle Palmer | |
Oct. 5, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Identity by descent in “unrelated” individuals ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Lei Sun | |
Nov. 2, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Two-phase family-based designs for next generation sequencing | Shelley B. Bull | |
Dec. 7, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Looking behind the curtain: Lead Toxicity as a Case Study of Methodologic Challenges in Gene-Environment Interactions Research | France Gagnon | |
Jan. 11, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Haplotypes & Imputation, Two Complementary Tools: A Case Study on GenomeWide Expression Studies | France Gagnon | |
Jan. 25, 2013 | 1:00 to 2:00 pm | ![]() |
Common and rare variants in the genetic susceptibility to melanoma ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Shelley B. Bull | |
Mar. 1, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
DNA Methylation Studies using Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadArrays ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Shelley B. Bull | |
Apr. 5, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Epigenomics reveal the function of genetic risk-variants in cancer ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Michael Wilson (TBC) | |
May 3, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
How Can Genetic Epidemiology Help Identify Modifiable Causes of Disease ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Lyle Palmer |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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October 7, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
The Search for Genes Associated with Ischemic Stroke through GWAS and Exome Sequencing ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Andrew Paterson | |
November 4, 2011 | |||||
December 2, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
New genomics technologies and complex traits: what do we gain, and what are the challenges? ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | France Gagnon | |
January 6, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
From Linkage Studies to Next Generation Sequencing and Back Again: Leveraging Next Generation Sequence Data and Families to Identify Disease Genes ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | TBC | |
January 27, 2012 | 1:00 to 2:00 pm | ![]() |
Using nuclear families to find genes related to conditions with onset early in life. ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Andrew Paterson | |
March 2, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Design and Analysis of Next-generation Genetic Epidemiological Studies. ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Rayjean Hung | |
April 13, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Calibration of Statistical Evidence using Principles of Thermodynamics | Lisa Strug | |
May 4, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Evaluating Personal Risk Models | Laurent Briollais | |
June 1, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm |
Date | Time | Guest Speakers | #colspan# | Talk Title | Host |
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October 5, 2010 | 3:30 to 4:30 pm | ![]() |
Copy Number Variation and Complex Human Disease: Examples of Two Recent Studies ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (1.5 MB) ] | Lyle Palmer | |
November 19, 2010 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Genome Variation and Cancer ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (556 KB) ] | France Gagnon | |
December 3, 2010 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Multi-reads enable detection of novel peaks in ChIP-seq analysis ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (1 MB) ] | Lei Sun | |
January 14, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Identifying Genes for Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits by Genome-Wide Association and Sequencing Studies | Shelley B. Bull | |
February 4, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Distinguishing Second Primary Cancers From Metastases: Statistical Challenges in Testing Clonal Relatedness of Tumors ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (600 KB) ] | Laurent Briiollais | |
March 4, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Lessons from Genome-Wide Association Studies in Venous Thrombosis ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (500 KB) ] | France Gagnon | |
April 1, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Genetics in a Finnish Birth Cohort ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (971 KB) ] | Lei Sun | |
May 6, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm | ![]() |
Impact of Study Design in Genome Wide Association Studies ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (532 KB) ] | John McLaughlin |
Seminars are sponsored by The Hospital for Sick Children (Genetics & Genome Biology Program), the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Toronto, the Ontario Cancer Institute of the University Health Network, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and the McLaughlin Centre.
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