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 are held from 12:00 to 1:00 pm on the first Friday of every month October to June. Group discussions with the speakers are held from 1-2 pm on the same days.
With this series, and in the context of genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics research, STAGE aims to:
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| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | McLaughlin Centre |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | 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 | Sponsored by Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute |
| November 3, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm |
| Dr. Matthew Stephens Professor of Statistics and Human Genetics | Come Join the Multiple Testing Party! | Sponsored by Ontario Institute for Cancer Research |
| December 1, 2017 | 12:15pm to 1:15pm |
| Dr. Joseph H. Lee Associate Professor, | Examination of human knock-in models to identify protective genetic factors for Alzheimer disease: Exploring PSEN1 founder mutation carriers and adults with Down syndrome | 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, | Successful localization of genes that predispose to epilepsy using large pedigrees | 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 | 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 | 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 | Adventures in the land of complex disease etiology with large clinical datasets | 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 | 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 | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Sponsored by OICR |
| June 1, 2017 | 9:00am to 10:00am |
| Dr. Neil Risch Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Genetic Epidemiology Research Based in Electronic Health Records, Part 1. Population Structure, Mating Patterns and Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids |
| June 2, 2017 | 12:00pm to 1:00pm |
| Dr. Neil Risch Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Genetic Epidemiology Research Based in Electronic Health Records, Part 2. Linking the genome to longitudinal disease and trait data | Sponsored by Genetic and Genome Biology, Sick Kids |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 5, 2016 | noon to 1:00pm |
| Dr. Guillaume Paré Director, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Hamilton Health Sciences | 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 |
| March 4, 2016 | noon to 1:00pm |
| Dr. Benjamin Voight Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, | 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 |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 3, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | 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 |  | 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 |  | 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 |
| Feb. 5, 2015 | 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 | Detecting germline risk variants for complex diseases with illustrations for rare variants | Gagnon, France |
| 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 Rafael Irizarry's lab page. | TBC | TBC |
| May 1, 2015 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Curtis Huttenhower Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | TBC | TBC |
| Jun. 5, 2015 | noon to 1:00 pm | TBC | TBC | TBC |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 4, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Andreas Ziegler Professor and head of the Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck, | 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 |  | Erwin Schurr Investigator, Centre for the Study of Host Resistance Professor, Department of Human Genetics Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine | Genetic dissection of complex infection phenotypes | France Gagnon |
| Mar. 7, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Chris Amos Associate Cancer Center Director for Population Sciences | Genetic Architecture of Lung Cancer Susceptibility | Rayjean Hung |
| Apr. 4, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | 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 |  | Frank Dudbridge Professor, Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology and Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health | Explaining heritability and predicting risk with polygenic scores | Shelley Bull |
| Jun. 6, 2014 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Xihong Lin Professor, Department of Biostatistics | Statistical Genetics and Genomics in the Big Data Era: Opportunities and Challenges in Research and Training | TBC |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep. 14, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin Divisional Director of Postgraduate Studies | Genetics of Early Growth ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Lyle Palmer |
| Oct. 5, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Sharon Browning Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics | Identity by descent in ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Lei Sun |
| Nov. 2, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Duncan C. Thomas Professor and Director, Biostatistics Division | Two-phase family-based designs for next generation sequencing | Shelley B. Bull |
| Dec. 7, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Howard Hu Director and Dean | 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 |  | David Tregouet Head director, Institute for Cardio-Metabolism and Nutrition (ICAN), Genomics Department, Pierre and Marie Curie University Campus | Haplotypes & Imputation, Two Complementary Tools: A Case Study on GenomeWide Expression Studies | France Gagnon |
| Jan. 25, 2013 | 1:00 to 2:00 pm |  |
Director, Director of Research, Institut National de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) | 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 |  | Associate Professor of Biostatistics | DNA Methylation Studies using Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadArrays ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Shelley B. Bull |
| Apr. 5, 2013 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Mathieu Lupien Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute | 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 |  | George Davey-Smith Scientific Director of The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) & MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology | How Can Genetic Epidemiology Help Identify Modifiable Causes of Disease ISSS Colour Poster [PDF] | Lyle Palmer |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Stephen S. Rich Director, Center for Public Health Genomics | 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 |
| Ellen M. Wijsman Professor, Division of Medical Genetics and Department of Biostatistics | 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 |  | Suzanne M. Leal Professor | 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 |  | John Witte Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Urology | Design and Analysis of Next-generation Genetic Epidemiological Studies. ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Rayjean Hung |
| April 13, 2012 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Veronica J. Vieland Vice President for Computational Research and Director Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Statistics | 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 |
| Date | Time | Speakers | Affiliation | Talk Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 5, 2010 | 3:30 to 4:30 pm |  | Martin D. Tobin Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health | Copy Number Variation and Complex Human Disease: Examples of Two Recent Studies ISSS Colour Poster | Lyle Palmer |
| November 19, 2010 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Thomas J. Hudson President and Scientific Director | Genome Variation and Cancer ISSS Colour Poster | France Gagnon |
| December 3, 2010 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Sündüz Keles Associate Professor | Multi-reads enable detection of novel peaks in ChIP-seq analysis ISSS Colour Poster | Lei Sun |
| January 14, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Michael Boehnke Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, 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 |
| Colin B. Begg Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 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 |
| 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 | France Gagnon |
| April 1, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm |
| Chiara Sabatti Associate Professor, Department of Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics) and | Genetics in a Finnish Birth Cohort ISSS Colour Poster | Lei Sun |
| May 6, 2011 | noon to 1:00 pm |  | Terri H. Beaty Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health | Impact of Study Design in Genome Wide Association Studies ISSS Colour Poster | John McLaughlin |
