Past Years Seminars

2006-2007
2005-2006
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
2001-2002
2000-2001
1999-2000
1998-1999
1997-1998
1996-1997
1995-1996

Seminars - 2006-2007

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
Thursday
03-29-07
03:30PM
Bruce Rannala
University of California, Davis
Inferring Speciation Times Under an Episodic Molecular Clock
Thursday
03-15-07
03:30PM
Ken Lange
University of California, Los Angeles
Correlations between Relatives: New Results and Applications in Genetics
Thursday
10/19/06
03:30PM
Karl Broman
Johns Hopkins University
The Genomes of Recombinent Inbred Lines
Monday
10/16/06
04:00PM
Molly Przeworski
University of Chicago
The Signature of Positive Selection in Polymorphism Data: Implications for Genome Scans

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Seminars - 2005-2006

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
Wednesday
04-26-06
11:00AM
Lei Sun
University of Toronto
Non-discovery rate and stratified false discovery control with application to genome-wide association studies.
Monday
04-17-06
04:00PM
Bernie Devlin
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
A hunt for genetic liability to schizophrenia in Oceanic Palau
Thursday
12/08/05
03:30PM
E. A. Thompson
University of Washington
Uncertainty in Inheritance and the Detection of Linkage

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Seminars - 2004-2005

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
Thursday
04/07/05
03:30PM
Stephanie Monks
Oklahoma State University
Genetic Influences on Gene Expression in Humans
Monday
12/06/04
04:00PM
Paul Van Eerdewegh
Harvard Medical School, Genizon BioSciences
Random Forests and Association Studies of Complex Traits
Thursday
11/18/04
03:30PM
Marc Feldman
Stanford University
Is Evolution Modular? Towards a Theory for the Evolution of Genetic Interactions\r\n
Monday
11/08/04
04:00PM
Richard Spielman
University of Pennsylvania
Nice Models and Unpleasant Realities in Complex Genetic Traits
Monday
10/11/04
04:00PM
Wen-Hsiung Li
University of Chicago
Some Topics in Evolutionary and Computational Genomics

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Seminars - 2003-2004

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
Monday
05/04/04
12:00PM
Chris Amos
University of Texas at Houston
Statistical Models for Microdeletion Detection
Monday
04/26/04
04:00PM
Trudy Mackay
North Carolina State University
The Nature of Variation for Complex Traits: Lessons From Drosophila
Thursday
04/15/04
03:30PM
Nancy Cox
University of Chicago
"... it's what we know for sure that just ain't so": Alternatives to the Conventional Wisdom on Hardy-Weinberg Expectations for Complex Traits, and the Winner's Curse in Linkage and Association Mapping
Thursday
01/29/04
03:30PM
Matthew Stephens
University of Washington
Identifying Recombination Hotspots from SNP Data
Thursday
01/22/04
03:30PM
Ellen Wijsman
University of Washington
Complex Traits and Complex Models in Human Gene Discovery: Pedigree vs. Case-Control Designs
Monday
10/27/03
12:00PM
Saurabh Ghosh
Indian Statistical Institute
Model-Free Linkage Mapping of Multivariate Phenotypes Using Reverse Regression

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Seminars - 2002-2003

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
06/02/03
Richard Hudson, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Analyzing Linage Disequilibrium with Composite Likelihood
04/28/03
David Cox, M.D., Ph. D.
Perlegen Sciences
Human Genetic Variation and Human Diseases
03/21/03
Joel Hirschhorn, M.D., Ph.D.
MIT Whitehead Institute
Performing and Interpreting Association Studies for Common Disease
03/06/03
Eleanor Feingold, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Mapping Genes for Quantitative Traits Using Concordant and Discordant Sibling Pairs: New Statistics and New Possibilities
03/03/03
Sunduz Keles, M.A.
University of California Berkeley
Binding Site Detection by Incorporating Structural Information and Model Selection with Likelihood Based Cross-Validation
02/11/03
Laura Lazzeroni, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Allele Sharing and Allelic Association in Affected Sib Pairs
01/28/03
Christoph Lange, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Using the Non-Informative Families in Family-Based Association Tests: A Powerful New Testing Strategy
01/27/03
Val Sheffield, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Iowa
Rare Insight Into Common Disease: The Molecular Genetics of a Human Obesity Syndrome
01/23/03
Zhaohui Qin, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Bayesian Haplotype Inference for Multiple Linked Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
01/16/03
Charles Lawrence, Ph.D.
Wadsworth Center
New Data Driven Research Paradigm for the Post Genome Era: A Transcription Regulation Example
11/18/02
Rick Kettles, Ph.D.
Howard University
P Gene Haplotype Variation Association with Skin Color

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Seminars - 2001-2002

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
06/06/02
Stephen Rich, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University
Challenges and Opportunities for Investigating the Genetic Basis of Complex Disease: Type I Diabetes
04/15/02
Lynn Jorde, Ph.D.
University of Utah
Linkage Disequilibrium and the Search for Common Disease Genes
03/18/02
Deborah Nickerson, Ph.D.
University of Washington
SNPing in the Human Genome
02/21/02
Peter Kraft, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Family-Based Gene Association Studies for Diseases with Variable Age at Onset
02/12/02
Hongzhe Li, Ph.D.
University of California at Davis
Multivariate Survival Models Induced by Genetic Frailties with Application to Linkage Analysis
02/07/02
Gonçalo Abecasis, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Rapid Pedigree Calculations for Dense Genetic Maps
10/28/01
Gerard D. Schellenberg, Ph.D.
University of Washington
The Genetics of Tau and Neurodegenerative Disease

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Seminars - 2000-2001

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
05/11/01
Robert Elston, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Haseman and Elston Revisited
04/10/01
Stephanie Sherman, Ph.D.
Emory University
Trisomy 21: Risk Factors for Human Nondisjunction
02/24/01
Anna DiRienzo, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Evolutionary Histories Underlying Human Genome Variation
02/21/01
Susan Hodge, D.Sc.
Columbia University
Information Loss Due to Ambiguous Haplotyping of SNPs: A Mathematical Modeling Problem
02/10/01
Richard Spielman, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Linkage and Association as Tools in Human Genetics: Testing Candidate Genes for Complex Disease
02/07/01
Leena Peltonen, Ph.D.
UCLA
Genetics of Complex Diseases: Lessons from a Genetic Isolate of Finland
02/03/01
Steven Horvath, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Dealing with Missing Data Problems in Family-Based Association Studies
01/31/01
David Greenberg, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai University
Studying Genetics of Common Disease: All the Genetic Loci for Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy
01/25/01
Sharon Browning, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University
A Monte Carlo Approach to Calculating Probabilities for Continuous IBD Data
01/20/01
David Stivers, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
Sample DNA Mixtures: Estimating the Contributors’ Genotypes

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Seminars - 1999-2000

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
12/18/99
Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Linkage Disequilibrium and Whole Genome Association Studies: Theory and Applications
11/13/99
Jonathan K. Pritchard, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Association Mapping in Structured Populations
11/06/99
Gary Churchill, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory
Experimental Design and Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data
05/17/00
Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Oligonucleotide Array-Based Resequencing
02/28/00
Kathleen Kerr, Ph.D.
The Jackson Laboratory
Experimental Design and Statistical Inference for cDNA Microarrays
02/12/00
Jeffrey Long, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Population Genetics of Complex Disease: Some Examples from Alcoholism and Future Directions
02/08/00
Goncalo Abecasis, D. Phil.
University of Oxford
Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping of Quantitative Traits
01/30/00
Jenny Bryan, M.S.
University of California Berkeley
Gene Expression Analysis from DNA Microarrays
01/22/00
Julie Douglas, M.S.
University of Michigan
Conversion-Based Haplotying in Linkage and Linkage Disequilibrium Studies
01/18/00
Jonathan K. Pritchard, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Inference of Population Structure from Genetic Data

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Seminars - 1998-1999

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
05/06/99
Mark Shriver, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
Mapping Genes for Complex Diseases by Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium
03/22/99
Muin Khoury, Ph.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Human Genome Epidemiology (HuGE): Translating Advances in Human Genetics into Medicine and Public Health
02/15/99
Susan E. Hodge, D.Sc.
Columbia University
'Parametric' and 'Nonparametric' Linkage Analysis of Complex Diseases: Distinguishing Fantasy from Reality
02/04/99
Daniel Schaid, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Gene Discovery by Linkage Disequilibrium in Family Studies
11/30/98
Jeff Murray, Ph.D.
University of Iowa
Ethical and Social Issues in Human Genetics
11/23/98
Daniel Weeks, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Linkage Analysis of Complex Traits

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Seminars - 1997-1998

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
05/07/98
Elizabeth Thompson, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Computation of Likelihoods for Linkage Detection on Complex Pedigrees
04/20/98
Richard Spritz, M.D.
University of Wisconsin
Cloning and Analysis of Genes for Hermansky-Pudlok and Chediak-Higashi Syndromes: Disorders of Cytoplasmic Organelles
04/06/98
James Weber, Ph.D.
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
Whole Genome Polymorphism Screening for Gene Mapping and Public Health
03/16/98
Mark Boguski, Ph.D.
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Bioinformatics: Closing the Gap Between Sequence and Function
02/02/98
Tom Marr, Ph.D.
Genomica Corporation
Computer-Aided Gene Finding: From Clinic to Cloning and Function
01/15/98
Charles Sing, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Beyond the Baconian-Cartesian-Mendelian Paradigm: Genetics After the Human Genome Project
01/12/98
Graeme Bell, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Diabetes Mellitus: A Model for Genetic Studies of Common Diseases
11/13/97
Patricia Peyser, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
The Genetics of Atherosclerosis: Challenges of Coronary Artery Calcification
10/16/97
D. Andrew Merriwether, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Human Diasporas
10/10/97
John Todd, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Etiology and Genetics of the Common Multifactorial Disease Type 1 Diabetes
09/22/97
John Blangero, Ph.D.
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
Quantitative Trait Linkage Analysis Using Variance Components

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Seminars - 1996-1997

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
05/12/97
Jürg Ott, Ph.D.
Rockefeller University
Estimating Trends of Male/Female Map Distances Along Chromosomes
04/07/97
Richard Myers, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Genomes, Genes, and Mouse Models of Human Disease
03/13/97
Brian Moldover, Ph.D.
Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis
Application of Computational Techniques to Biological Sequence Information
01/27/97
Nicholas Dracopoli, Ph.D.
Sequana Therapeutics
Genetic Analysis of Familial Melanoma
10/03/96
Michael Waterman, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
DNA and Protein Database Searches and Statistical Significance

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Seminars - 1995-1996

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
05/06/96
Neil Risch, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Epidemiologic and Molecular Genetic Studies of Multiple Sclerosis
04/04/96
Augustine Kong, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Mapping Genes for Complex Traits: The Method of Inference and the Measure of Information
04/02/96
Margaret Pericak-Vance, Ph.D.
Duke University
Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease: A Prototype for a Complex Genetic Disease
02/19/96
David Cox, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
The Genome Project and Human Disease
12/12/95
Hywel Jones, Ph.D.
Cambridge University
Whole Genome Radiation Hybrid Mapping

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