ISSS

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:

expose trainees to high-caliber international research
further interdisciplinary research innovation, discovery, and learning
foster a cohesive research community of genetic epidemiologists and statistical geneticists in Canada
promote rigorous and relevant research in this field
enable new networks of collaborative research

October 2022 - June 2023

Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Host
Oct. 7, 2022	12:00-1:00 pm	Teri Manolio, MD, PhD Director, Division of Genomic Medicine at National Human Genome Research Institute	Genomic Diversity and Genomic Healthcare	Andrew Paterson
Nov 2022	12:00-1:00 pm	TBD	TBD	TBD
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	TBD	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

October 2021 - June 2022

Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Host
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

October 2020 - June 2021

Date	Time		Speaker	Title	Host
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 Abstract	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	Photo by Jean Lachat.	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 Abstract	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 Abstract	Jennifer Brooks
Jun. 4, 2021 Register HERE	12:00-1:00 pm		Heather J. Cordell, PhD Professor of Statistical Genetics Population Health Sciences Institute Faculty of Medical Sciences Newcastle University United Kingdom	A Bayesian network approach incorporating imputation of missing data enables exploratory analysis of complex causal biological relationshipsAbstract	TBC

October 2019 - June 2020

Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Partner
October 25, 2019	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Dr. Mait Metspalu Director, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu	Digging genomes for propelling medicine and understanding our past. Abstract	McLaughlin Centre, SickKids
November 1, 2019	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Dr. Stephen Chanock Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute	Complexity of cancer susceptibility	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
December 6, 2019	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Dr. Joe Petrosino Professor of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine	The impact of early microbiome exposures on early life development and disease Poster and Abstract	The Hospital for Sick Children
April 3, 2020 CANCELLED	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Dr. Andrew Allen Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University	-	-
June 5, 2020 Register HERE	12:00pm - 1:00pm	Dr. Nancy Saccone Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Genetics	SNPs, Statistics, and Society: Lessons from Addiction Genetics Research

October 2018 - June 2019

Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Partner
October 5, 2018	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Augustine Kong Professor of Statistical Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford	The Nature of Nurture: Effects of Parental Genotypes Abstract	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
March 22, 2019	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Stijn Vansteelandt Professor of Statistics, Ghent University (Belgium); Professor of Statistical Methodology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.	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)	Dr. Li Li Walter M. Seward Professor and Chair of Family Medicine, University of Virginia	Racial Disparities and Precision Prevention of Colon Neoplasia Abstract	University Health Network
June 7, 2019	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Gil McVean Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford; Director of Oxford’s Big Data Institute	Mapping the structure of genetic risk for common disease in the UK Biobank Abstract	McLaughlin Centre

October 2017 - June 2018

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
October 6, 2017	12:15pm to 1:15pm	Dr. Cristen Willer Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, of Human Genetics, of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan	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	Dr. Matthew Stephens Professor of Statistics and Human Genetics University of Chicago	Come Join the Multiple Testing Party! Abstract	Sponsored by Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
December 1, 2017	12:15pm to 1:15pm	Dr. Joseph H. Lee Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University; Sergievsky Center & Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s disease and the Aging Brain, College of Physicians and Surgeons	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	Dr. Julia Bailey Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health	Successful localization of genes that predispose to epilepsy using large pedigrees Abstract	Sponsored by CAMH
March 2, 2018	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Daniel J. Schaid Professor of Genomics Research, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic	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	Dr. Nilanjan Chatterjee Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University	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	Dr. Andrey Rzhetsky Pritzker Scholar, Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine & Human Genetics University of Chicago	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	Dr. Carl Langefeld Professor, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Co-Director, Bioinformatics Core, Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center	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	Dr. Carl Langefeld Professor, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Co-Director, Bioinformatics Core, Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center	Predictive ability of SLE genetic risk factors varies across ethnicities Abstract	Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids

October 2016 - June 2017

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
September 30, 2016	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Peter Kraft Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Director of Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Recent advances in the integrative molecular epidemiology of breast cancer. Abstract: click here	Sponsored by OICR
November 4, 2016	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Matthew Freedman Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Member, Broad Institute	The Genomics and Epigenomics of Prostate Cancer Abstract	Sponsored by McLaughlin Centre
December 2, 2016	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Jeff Leek Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins University Data Science Lab	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	Dr. Goncalo Abecasis Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health	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	Dr. Joanna Biernacka Director of Psychiatric Genomics and Pharmacogenomics Program, Professor of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science	Psychiatric Genomics and Pharmacogenomics: Recent Advances and Ongoing Challenges Abstract	Sponsored by CAMH
April 7, 2017	12:00pm to 1:00pm	Dr. Elizabeth Hauser Professor, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute (DMPI), Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine	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	Dr. Ellen L. Goode Department of Health Sciences Research College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic	Integrative Molecular Epidemiology of Ovarian Cancer Abstract	Sponsored by OICR
June 1, 2017	9:00am to 10:00am	Dr. Neil Risch Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Director, Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco	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	Dr. Neil Risch Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Director, Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco	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

February 2016 - June 2016

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
February 5, 2016	noon to 1:00pm	Dr. Guillaume Paré Director, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Hamilton Health Sciences Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University	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	Dr. Benjamin Voight Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine	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.	Dr. Ellen L. Goode Professor of Epidemiology, Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic	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	Dr. Shili Lin Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University	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

October 2014 - June 2015

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
Oct. 3, 2014	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Paul Brennan Section and Group Head, Genetic Epidemiology Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization	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	Dr. Richard Simon Chief, Biometric Research Branch, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health	Development of Predictive Classifiers Based on High Dimensional Data Validation for an Intended Use	Shelley Bull
Dec. 5, 2014	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos Associate Professor, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington	Decoding the human genome: Reading nature’s text, punctuation, and ongoing edits	Michael Wilson
POSTPONED	noon to 1:00 pm	Joan E. Bailey-Wilson Co-Chief & Senior Investigator, Inherited Disease Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health	TBC	TBC
Mar. 6, 2015	noon to 1:00 pm	TBC	TBC	TBC
Apr. 10, 2015	noon to 1:00 pm	Rafael Irizarry, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Rafael Irizarry's lab page.	TBC	TBC
May 1, 2015	noon to 1:00 pm	Curtis Huttenhower, Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Department of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health	TBC	TBC
Jun. 5, 2015	noon to 1:00 pm	TBC	TBC	TBC

October 2013 - June 2014

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
Oct. 4, 2013	noon to 1:00 pm	Prof. Andreas Ziegler Professor and head of the Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, University of Luebeck, Germany	Probability Machines: Estimating individual probabilities using machine learning methods	France Gagnon
Nov. 1, 2013	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Bruce Rannala Professor, Department of Evolution and Ecology, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis Genome Center	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	Dr. Erwin Schurr Investigator, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance Professor, Department of Human Genetics Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine McGill University	Genetic dissection of complex infection phenotypes	France Gagnon
Mar. 7, 2014	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Chris Amos Associate Cancer Center Director for Population Sciences Head, Center for Genomic Medicine Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College	Genetic Architecture of Lung Cancer Susceptibility	Rayjean Hung
Apr. 4, 2014	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health	Gene-environment interactions: new directions and novel applications	Howard Hu
May 2, 2014	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Frank Dudbridge Professor, Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology and Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	Explaining heritability and predicting risk with polygenic scores	Shelley Bull
Jun. 6, 2014	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Xihong Lin Professor, Department of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health	Statistical Genetics and Genomics in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges in Research and Training	TBC

September 2012 - May 2013

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
Sep. 14, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin Divisional Director of Postgraduate Studies Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Faculty of Medicine Imperial College London	Genetics of Early Growth ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ]	Lyle Palmer
Oct. 5, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Sharon Browning Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics University of Washington	Identity by descent in “unrelated” individuals ISSS Colour Poster [PDF]	Lei Sun
Nov. 2, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Duncan C. Thomas Professor and Director, Biostatistics Division Verna R. Richter Chair in Cancer Research, Department of Preventive Medicine University of Southern California	Two-phase family-based designs for next generation sequencing	Shelley B. Bull
Dec. 7, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Howard Hu Director and Dean Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto	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	Dr. David Tregouet Head director, Institute for Cardio-Metabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Genomics Department, Pierre and Marie Curie University Campus Research Director, 2nd Class, Mixed Research Unit S 937 - Genomics of Venous Thrombosis, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM)	Haplotypes & Imputation, Two Complementary Tools: A Case Study on GenomeWide Expression Studies	France Gagnon
Jan. 25, 2013	1:00 to 2:00 pm	Dr. Florence Demenais Director, Director of Research, Institut National de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Head of the Genetic Variation and Human Diseases Unit, INSERM-University Paris	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	Kimberly D. Siegmund Associate Professor of Biostatistics Department of Preventive Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California	DNA Methylation Studies using Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadArrays ISSS Colour Poster [PDF]	Shelley B. Bull
Apr. 5, 2013	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Mathieu Lupien Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute OICR Investigator, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto	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	Dr. George Davey-Smith Scientific Director of The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) & MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Social and Community Medicine University of Bristol	How Can Genetic Epidemiology Help Identify Modifiable Causes of Disease ISSS Colour Poster [PDF]	Lyle Palmer

Oct 2011 - June 2012

Date	Time	Guest Speakers	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
October 7, 2011	noon to 1:00 pm		Dr. Stephen S. Rich Director, Center for Public Health Genomics Harrison Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia	The Search for Genes Associated with Ischemic Stroke through GWAS and Exome Sequencing ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ]	Andrew Paterson
November 4, 2011		CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED
December 2, 2011	noon to 1:00 pm		Dr. Ellen M. Wijsman Professor, Division of Medical Genetics and Department of Biostatistics University of Washington	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		Dr. Suzanne M. Leal Professor Director, Center for Statistical Genetics Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine	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		Dr. Clarice R. Weinberg Chief, Biostatistics Branch, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health	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		Dr. John Witte Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Urology University of California, San Francisco Associate Director Institute for Human Genetics Head, Division of Cancer Epidemiology Co-Leader, Program in Cancer Genetics, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center	Design and Analysis of Next-generation Genetic Epidemiological Studies. ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ]	Rayjean Hung
April 13, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm		Dr. Veronica J. Vieland Vice President for Computational Research and Director Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Statistics The Ohio State University College of Medicine	Calibration of Statistical Evidence using Principles of Thermodynamics	Lisa Strug
May 4, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm		Dr. Alice S. Whittemore Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department of Health Research and Policy Stanford University School of Medicine	Evaluating Personal Risk Models	Laurent Briollais
June 1, 2012	noon to 1:00 pm	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED

May 2010 - October 2011

Date	Time	#colspan#	Talk Title	Host
October 5, 2010	3:30 to 4:30 pm	Dr. Martin D. Tobin Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow Genetic Epidemiology Group Departments of Health Sciences & Genetics University of Leicester	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	Dr. Thomas J. Hudson President and Scientific Director Ontario Institute for Cancer Research	Genome Variation and Cancer ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (556 KB) ]	France Gagnon
December 3, 2010	noon to 1:00 pm	Dr. Sündüz Keles Associate Professor Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	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	Prof. Michael Boehnke Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan Director, Center for Statistical Genetics, and Genome Science Training Program	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	Prof. Colin B. Begg Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre	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	Prof. Pierre-Emmanuel Morange INSERM, UMR S 626, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France	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	Prof. Chiara Sabatti Associate Professor, Department of Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics) and Statistics (by Courtesy) Stanford University	Genetics in a Finnish Birth Cohort ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (971 KB) ]	Lei Sun
May 6, 2011	noon to 1:00 pm	Prof. Terri H. Beaty Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University	Impact of Study Design in Genome Wide Association Studies ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (532 KB) ]	John McLaughlin

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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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