The International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) and group discussions are free and OPEN TO ALL.
Seminars are broadcast to research centres interested in participating by video conference.
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:
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| Oct. 1, 2021 | 12:00 1:00PM | 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 | TBC |
| Nov. 5, 2021 | 12:00 1:00PM | Jordana Bell, PhD Senior Lecturer Head of Epigenomics Research Group Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King’s College London | TBC |
| Dec. 3, 2021 | 12:00 1:00PM | Antonis Antoniou, PhD Professor of Cancer Risk Prediction Academic Course Director MPhil in Epidemiology Department of Public Health and Primary Care | TBC |
| Feb. 4, 2022 | 12:00 1:00PM | David Balding, PhD, FAA Professor of Statistical Genetics Melbourne Integrative Genomics Schools of BioSciences and of Maths & Stats University of Melbourne | TBC |
| Mar. 4, 2022 | 12:00 1:00PM | André Uitterlinden, PhD Professor of Complex Genetics Head Genetic Laboratory and Human Genomics Facility Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands | TBC |
| Apr. 1, 2022 | 12:00 1:00PM | TBC | TBC |
| May. 6, 2022 | 12:00 1:00PM | David Conti, PhD Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine University of Southern California | TBC |
| Jun. 3, 2022 | 12:00 1:00PM | TBC | TBC |
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| Oct. 2, 2020 | 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 |
| Nov. 6, 2020 | 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 |
| Dec. 4, 2020 | 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 |
| Mar. 5, 2021 | 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 |
| May 7, 2021 | 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 | TBC |
| Jun. 4, 2021 | 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 relationships |
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| Dr. Mait Metspalu Director, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu | Digging genomes for propelling medicine and understanding our past. | ||
| Dr. Stephen Chanock Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute | Complexity of cancer susceptibility | ||
| 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 | ||
| Dr. Andrew Allen Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University | TBC | ||
| Dr. Nancy Saccone Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Genetics | SNPs, Statistics, and Society: Lessons from Addiction Genetics Research |
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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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