Past Primers

Past videos of the Primer on Medical and Population Genetics series are freely available for viewing by clicking one of the links below. The talks are geared toward a wide audience, including research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established investigators just entering the field.

The most recent sessions for each topic can be found on the Primer landing page.

 

2023 - 2024 Primers

06/13/24 Sequencing and analysis of long-read whole genome data
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Kiran Garimella
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06/06/24 Cellarium
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Mehrtash Babadi
Ó³»­´«Ã½
05/30/24 Introduction to Pharmacogenetics
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Josephine Li
Massachusetts General Hospital
05/16/24 Introduction to Terra/AnVIL
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Anton Kovalsky
Ó³»­´«Ã½
05/09/24 Genomic analysis for rare disease diagnosis and discovery using seqr
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Chrissy Austin-Tse
Ó³»­´«Ã½
04/25/24 Structural Variation in Human Genomes
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Xuefang Zhao
Emma Pierce-Hoffman
Ó³»­´«Ã½
04/11/24 Understand Single Cell ATAC-Seq Data Analysis
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Dongwon Lee
Ó³»­´«Ã½
04/04/24 A Practical guide to bulk RNA-seq, including guidelines for eQTL analysis
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Amelia Weber Hall
Ó³»­´«Ã½ 
 
03/28/24 Biomedical Data Privacy
 
Hoon Cho
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/28/24 Genomic Privacy: Key Issues and Emerging Solutions
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Hoon Cho
Yale University
03/21/24 Rare variant interpretation
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Wenhan Lu
Neale and Karczewski Labs
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/14/24 Phenome-wide GWAS in biobanks
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Wei Zhou
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/08/24 Patient Engagement in Genomic Research: Using social media to create a community 
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Taisha Hendrickson and Melissa Chiumiento
Count Me In
02/15/24 Ethical considerations in genomics research
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Anna Lewis
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
02/08/24 Integration of GWAS and functional data
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Benjamin Strober
Harvard School of Public Health
02/01/24 A brief history of non-invasive prenatal testing
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Guilio Genovese
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Ó³»­´«Ã½
01/18/24 All of Us Primer, Part 2
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Uma Arora
Ó³»­´«Ã½
01/09/24 All of Us Primer, Part 1
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Ruchi Munshi
Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/07/23 Basics of gene editing/CRISPR
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Daniel Strebinger
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/30/23 Ó³»­´«Ã½ Clinical Labs: Sequencing Technology Landscape and Current Offerings Overview
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Brendan Blumenstiel
Ó³»­´«Ã½ Clinical Labs
11/16/23 gnomAD v4: Behind the scenes
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Katherine Chao
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/26/23 Clinical Variant and Gene Classification
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Heidi Rehm
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/19/23 Introduction to fine-mapping
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Ran Cui
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/12/23 Modeling rare variation and calculating genetic constraint
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Kaitlin Samocha
Ó³»­´«Ã½
09/28/23 Mono- and bi-valent allele impact
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Henrike Heyne
FIMM - Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
09/14/23 Greater Genetic Diversity is Needed in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Models
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Ralda Nehm
Lindy Barrett
Ó³»­´«Ã½

2022 - 2023 Primers

06/29/23 Polygenic Prediction across Populations
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Ying Wang
Ó³»­´«Ã½
06/21/23 Harmonization of deeply sequenced genomes
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Zan Koenig
Ó³»­´«Ã½
06/15/23 suSIEx
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Kai Yuan
Ó³»­´«Ã½
06/01/23 Mostly natural sequencing-by-synthesis for scRNA-seq using Ultima sequencing
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Sean Simmons
Ó³»­´«Ã½
05/18/23 Copy number alterations in Slide-seq data
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Diane Zhang
Ó³»­´«Ã½
05/11/23 Individual-level Tissue-Specific Imputed Transcriptomes in Drug Target Prioritization
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Xin Wang
Ó³»­´«Ã½
Massachusetts General Hospital
04/27/23 Tissue-Aware Conservation Inference Toolkit (TACIT)
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Alyssa Lawler
Harvard Medical School
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/30/23 A statistical genetics guide to identifying HLA alleles driving complex disease
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Saori Sakaue
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/23/23 Inferring causal cell types driving human disease and complex traits
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Tiffany Amariuta
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/16/23 STACI
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Xinyi Zhang
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/09/23 Germline Variation and CRISPR screens
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Sean Misek
Ó³»­´«Ã½
03/02/23 How cells divide labor using communication and spatial cues
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Miri Adler
Ó³»­´«Ã½
02/09/23 Cross-cohort Analysis via Cloud Genomics
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Margaret Sunitha
MGH, Ó³»­´«Ã½
02/02/23 Stochasticy in transcription
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Anika Gupta
Ó³»­´«Ã½
01/19/23 Genetics of Inherited Retinal Degenerations
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Eric Pierce
Emily Place
Ó³»­´«Ã½
Mass Eye & Ear
01/12/23 Learning representations for image-based profiling of perturbations
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Nikita Moshkov
Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/08/22 Clinical interpretation of genes and variants for disease causality
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Heidi Rehm
Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/01/22 Hands-on with Jupyter Notebooks in Terra
[ video ]
Elizabeth Kiernan, Anton Kovalsky, Tiffany Miller
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/17/22 Hands-on with Jupyter Notebooks in Terra
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Elizabeth Kiernan, Anton Kovalsky, Tiffany Miller
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/03/22 Terra Overview and Platform Tour
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Elizabeth Kiernan, Anton Kovalsky, Tiffany Miller
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/20/22 LORALS long read sequencing
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Dafni Glinos
Paul Hoffman
NY Genome Center
10/13/22 Haplotype assembly using short and long reads
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Ramin Shirali Hossein Zade
The Delft Bioinformatics Lab
TU Delft, Netherlands
10/06/22 Creating morphological profiles from image
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Beth Cimini
Niranj Chandrasekaran
Ó³»­´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard
9/22/22  Linking SNPs with genes in GWAS
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Luke O'Connor
Schmidt Fellow at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard
9/15/22  Learning from pre-pandemic data to forecast viral antibody escape
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Nikki Thadani
Postdoc, Debora S. Marks Lab, Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School

Sarah Gurev
PhD student at MIT in EECS

2021-2022 Primers

6/23/22 Sparse dictionary learning recovers pleiotropy from human cell fitness screens
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Joshua Pan
Marinka Zitnik
6/16/22 Leveraging Genomic Data to Investigate the Impact of Vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Gage Moreno
Lydia Krasilnikova
6/9/22 Sources and Consequences of Gene Expression Fluctuations
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Stuart Sevier
6/2/22 Analysis of allele-specific expression in single cell and spatial transcriptomics
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Luli Zou
Epigenomics
Ó³»­´«Ã½
5/26/22 Shared components of heritability across genetically correlated traits
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Jenna Ballard
Ó³»­´«Ã½
5/12/22 Role for sodium ions in prenatal brain development and disease
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Richard Smith
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
4/28/22 The Lipid Droplet Knowledge Portal
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Maria Constanzo
Tobias Walther
Robert Farese
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/31/22 Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores
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Ying Wang
Martin Lab
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/24/22 Rigor and reproducibility in epigenome-wide association studies
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Alex Lussier
Massachusetts General Hospital
3/17/22 Single-cell profiling in disease: approaches to dissecting mechanisms of dysfunction Francisco Garcia
3/10/22 Cell Painting: image information for illuminating disease variants
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Anne Carpenter
Juan Caicedo
Samira Asgari
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/3/22 Non-canonical open reading frames: new dimensions in the human genome
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John Prensner
Boston Children's Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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2/17/22 Polygenic risk in the context of monogenic diseases
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Victor Nauffal
Cardiovascular Disease Initiative
Ellinor Lab
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2/10/22 The contribution of de novo transposon insertions to autism spectrum disorder
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Rebecca Borges-Monroy
Harvard University
Boston Children's Hospital
2/3/22 Chronos: a dynamic model for CRISPR data
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Joshua Dempster
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/20/22 Detecting and tracking contamination in SARS-CoV-2 sequencing with spike-in controls
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Kim Lagerborg
Sabeti Lab
1/6/22 The evolution, evolvability, and engineering of gene regulatory DNA
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Carl de Boer
University of British Columbia
12/9/21 Parental-fetal interplay of immune genes leads to fetal growth restriction
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Gurman Kaur
Ó³»­´«Ã½
University of Oxford
12/2/21 Practical decision making for deep learning in cardiac imaging
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James Pirruccello
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/28/21 Genetic history of neoplastic mutations
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Debra Van Egeren
10/14/21 Introduction to Linear Models
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Jason Morton
Eberly College of Sciences
Penn State University
9/30/21 Coronavirus cross reactivity
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Paulina Kaplonek
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
9/23/21 Highly efficient imaging transcriptomics with composite in situ imaging
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Brian Cleary
Ó³»­´«Ã½

2020 - 2021 Primers

9/17/20 A History of Eugenics
[ video ]
Robbee Wedow
Stanley Center
Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/24/20 RNA Product Offerings by the Genomics Platform
[ video ]
Caroline Petersen and Cole Walsh
Genomics Platform
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/1/20 A Practical Guide To Differential Gene Expression and Pathway Analysis
[ video ]
Amelia Hall
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/8/20 Using tximport and DEseq2 to identify differentially expressed genes: Terra tutorial
[ video ]
Amelia Hall
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/15/20 scRNA-seq analyses: challenges, opportunities, and best practices - Part 1
[ video ]
Stephen Fleming
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/22/20 Integration of RNA-seq and chromatin accessibly for genome-wide expression analysis
[ video ]
Lauren Wasson
Seidman Lab
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/5/20 scRNA-seq analyses: challenges, opportunities, and best practices - Part 2
[ video ]
Stephen Fleming
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/12/20 How to scale up GWAS to maximize power: successes & failures
[ video ]
Chris Newton-Cheh
Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/4/20 The A to Z of Project Management
[ video ]
Namrata Gupta
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/7/21 The Baby-Seq Project - Special considerations for enrollment and consent
[ video ]
Casie Genetti
Boston Children's Hospital
1/21/21 Introduction to expression quantitative trait loci
[ video ]
Francis Auget
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/4/21 Temporal Dynamics of RNA expression
[ video ]
Sophia Liu
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/22/21 The Zoonomia Project
[ video ]
Diane Genereux
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/4/21 Introduction to Pharmacogenetics
[ video ]
Josephine Li
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/11/21 Introduction to Genetic Counseling: at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ and Beyond
[ video ]
Samantha Baxter and Danielle Azzariti
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/18/21 Ethics in Ancient DNA research
[ video ]
Jakob Sedig
Reich Laboratory
Ó³»­´«Ã½
4/1/21 Ten years of variant discovery in the 1000 Genomes Project
[ video ]
Xuefang Zhao
Talkowski Laboratory
Ó³»­´«Ã½
4/8/21 Variant Classification using ACMG/AMP Interpreting Sequence Guidelines
[ video ]
Steven Harrison
Genomics Platform
Ó³»­´«Ã½
4/15/21 The Knowledge Portal Network
[ video ]
Maria Costanzo
Ó³»­´«Ã½
4/29/21 Gene-environmental Interactions
[ video ]
Kenny Westerman
Manning Laboratory
MGH/Ó³»­´«Ã½
6/1/21 Population differentiation and admixture of domestic dog breeds
[ video ]
Kathleen Morrill
Ó³»­´«Ã½
6/24/21 Introduction to Perturb-seq analysis
[ video ]
Ayshwarya Subramanian
Ó³»­´«Ã½

 

Spring 2020 Primers

3/5/20 MPG Primer: Using gnomAD - Tips and Tricks
[ video ]
Anne O'Donnell Luria
Ó³»­´«Ã½
5/7/20 MPG Primer: Heritability and SNP-heritability
[ video ]
Alkes Price
Ó³»­´«Ã½
5/22/20 Trans-ethnic polygenic risk scores: challenges and opportunities
[ video ]
Omer Weissbrod and Alicia Martin
Ó³»­´«Ã½
6/4/20 Genetics and epigenetic mosaicism
[ video ]
Diane Genereaux and Sarah Morton
Ó³»­´«Ã½
6/11/20 Introduction to fine-mapping methods
[ video ]
Hilary Finucane
Ó³»­´«Ã½
6/18/20 Gene and Variant Interpretation
[ video ]
Heidi Rehm
Ó³»­´«Ã½

2018-2019 Primers

10/25/18 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
Sekar Kathiresan
Institute Member, Co-director, Medical and Population Genetics Program
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/1/18

Insights from the study of the genetic basis of Mendelian disease
[ video ]

James Gusella
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ó³»­´«Ã½

11/12/18 High throughput sequencing, present and future technologies
[ video ]
Niall Lennon & Maura Costello
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/29/18 GWAS and secondary analyses of GWAS results
[ video ]
Gina Peloso
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
12/07/18 Sequence variant calling and data handling
[ video ]
Geraldine Van der Auwera
Data Sciences Platform
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/11/19 gnomAD: Using large genomic data sets to interpret human genetic variation
[ video ]
Anne O’Donnell-Luria
Center for Medelian Genomics, Ó³»­´«Ã½
Boston Children's Hospital
1/24/19 Current & Future Catalog Products in Genomics Platform
[ video ]
Niall Lennon
Tera Bowers
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/31/19 Analysis of Rare Variants
[ video ]
Ben Neale
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/28/19 Structural Variation
[ video ]
Bob Handsaker
Ó³»­´«Ã½
Harvard Medical School
4/02/19 Natural selection and human genetic variation
[ video ]
Steve Shaffner
Ó³»­´«Ã½
Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program

2017-2018 Primers

9/14/17 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Institute Member
Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/28/17 GWAS and secondary analyses of GWAS results
[ video ]
Gina Peloso
Ó³»­´«Ã½
BU School of Public Health
10/5/17 High throughput sequencing and variant calling pipelines
[ video ]
Geraldine van der Auwera
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/26/17 Analysis of rare variants from sequencing studies
[ video ]
Benjamin Neale
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/02/17 ExAC and gnomAD: Using large genomic data sets to interpret human genetic variation
[ video ]
Daniel MacArthur
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/16/17 Regulatory sequence variation in the human genome
[ video ]
Manolis Kellis
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/11/18 Clinical interpretation of genes for disease causality, Part 1
[ video ]
Heidi Rehm
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/18/18 Clinical interpretation of genes for disease causality, Part 2
[ video ]
Heidi Rehm
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/25/18 Natural Selection and Human Genetic Variation
[ video ]
Steve Schaffner
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/8/18 Structural Variation
[ video ]
Bob Handsaker
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/15/18 Gut microbiome in health and disease
[ video ]
Hera Vlamakis
Ó³»­´«Ã½

2016-2017 Primers

9/29/16 Genetics in Mendelian Human Disease
[ video ]
James Gusella
Ó³»­´«Ã½, Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
10/6/16 GWAS design and interpretation
[ video ]
Gina Peloso
Department of Biostatistics
BU School of Public Health
10/13/16 High-throughput sequencing and variant calling pipelines
[ video ]
Geraldine Van der Auwera
Data Sciences & Data Engineering
Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/27/16 Natural selection and human genetic variation
[ video ]
Steven Schaffner
Computational Biologist
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/3/16 Human Structural Variation
[ video ]
Bob Handsaker
Software Engineer
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/10/16 Analysis of rare variants from sequencing studies
[ video ]
Ben Neale
Institute Member
Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/17/16 ExAC and gnomAD: Using large genomic data sets to interpret human genetic variation
[ video ]
Daniel MacArthur
Institute Member
Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/1/16 ExAC: mutational constraint and de novo mutations
[ video ]
Kaitlin Samocha
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/5/17 Clinical interpretation of sequence variants
[ video ]
Heidi Rehm
Institute Member
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/19/17 Regulatory sequence variation in the human genome
[ video ]
Manolis Kellis
Institute Member
Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/26/17 Mitochondrial Genomics
[ video ]
Sarah Calvo
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/2/17 Genome Editing
[ video ]
Neena Pyzocha
Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/16/17 Clinical interpretation of genes for disease causality
[ video ]
Heidi Rehm
Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/02/17 Analyzing Cancer Genomes
[ video ]
Gad Getz
Ó³»­´«Ã½

2015-2016 Primers

2/12/15 The microbiome
[ video ]
Ramnik Xavier
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/10/15 Introduction to complex trait genetics Mark Daly,
Co-director, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Ó³»­´«Ã½
09/24/15 Genome-wide association studies: past and present Alisa Manning
Altshuler Lab, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/1/15 Mendelian traits focusing on methods, modifiers and implications for complex traits James Gusella,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/15/15 High-throughput sequencing and variant calling pipelines Geraldine Van der Auwera
Data Sciences & Data Engineering, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/22/15 Analysis of rare variants from sequencing studies Kaitlin Samocha
Graduate Student, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/29/15 Natural selection and human genetic variation Stephen Schaffner
Computational Biologist, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/05/15 Annotating gene sequence variation
[ video ]
Shamil Sunyaev
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/12/15 Translating non-coding variants to therapeutics in GWAS and cancer
[ video ]
Manolis Kellis
Associated Researcher, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/3/15 Mitochondrial genomics Sarah Calvo
Computational Biologist, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/10/15 Pharmacogenetics
[ video ]
Christopher Newton-Cheh
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/17/15 Structural variation
[ video ]
Bob Handsaker
Ó³»­´«Ã½, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics
1/7/16 Challenges in Cancer Genomics
[ video ]
Gad Getz
Director, Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/14/16 The Importance of phenotype definition
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½

2014-2015 Primers

9/11/14 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Deputy Director, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/2/14 Human Genetic Variation
[ video ]
Mark Daly,
Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/30/14 Genome-wide association studies: past and present
[ video ]
Alisa Manning
Altshuler Lab, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/6/14 Mendelian traits focusing on methods, modifiers and implications for complex traits
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/13/14 Sequencing and rare variant analysis
[ video ]
Ben Neale
Associated Researcher, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/4/14 High-throughput sequencing and calling pipelines
[ video ]
Eric Banks
Group Leader, Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/11/14 Regulatory Genomics and Epigenomics of Complex Traits
[ video ]
Manolis Kellis
Associated Researcher, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/8/15 Population Genetics
[ video ]
Stephen Schaffner
Computational Biologist, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/8/15 Pharmacogenetics Christopher Newton-Cheh
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/22/15 Annotating gene sequence variation
[ video ]
Shamil Sunyaev
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/29/15 Structural variation
[ video ]
Bob Handsaker
Ó³»­´«Ã½, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research
Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics
2/5/15 The Importance of phenotype definition
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/12/15 The microbiome
[ video ]
Ramnik Xavier
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
2/26/15 Analyzing Cancer Genetics
[ video ]
Gad Getz
Director, Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group, Ó³»­´«Ã½
3/5/15 Pharmacogenetics Christopher Newton-Cheh
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½

2012-2013 Primers

9/6/12 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/20/12 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/27/12 Statistical common sense and common pitfalls
[ video ]
Joel Hirschhorn
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/4/12 Genetic variation, LD, HapMap and beyond
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/18/12 Data processing and analysis of genetic variation using next-generation sequencing
[ video ]
Mark DePristo
Manager, Medical and Population Genetics Analysis, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/25/12 Phenotype definition (with tales from psychiatry)
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/01/12 Mouse Genetics
[ video ]
David Beier
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/15/12 Genome wide association studies: QC, analysis and interpretation
[ video ]
Alisa Knodle Manning
Altshuler Lab, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/13/12 Analytic Issues Associated with Rare Variant Testing
[ video ]
Ben Neale
Associated Researcher, Ó³»­´«Ã½
01/10/13 Genome structural variation
[ video ]
Steve McCarroll
Director, Stanley Center Genetics Program
01/17/13 Annotating gene sequence variation
[ video ]
Shamil Sunyaev
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½

 

2010-2011

9/16/10 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/23/10 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/14/10 Primer on genetic variation, LD, HapMap and beyond
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/21/10 Understanding and Interpreting GWAS Data
[ video ]
Paul de Bakker
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/28/10 Phenotype Definition (with tales from psychiatry)
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/18/10 Genetics of Gene Expression
[ video ]
Barbara Stranger
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½

Chris Cotsapas
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½

12/2/10 Next Generation Resequencing
[ video ]
Mark DePristo
Manager, Medical and Population Genetics Analysis, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1/20/11 Mouse Genetics
[ video ]
David R. Beier
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
 
2009-2010
9/17/09 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Ó³»­´«Ã½
9/24/09 A primer on human genetic variation
[ video ]
Mark Daly,
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/1/09 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
1008/09 Analysis of genome-wide SNP datasets
[ video ]
Shaun Purcell,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
10/15/09 Gene-environment and gene-gene interactions
[video]
Peter Kraft,
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
10/29/09 Understanding and Interpreting GWAS Data
[ video ]
Paul de Bakker,
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/5/09 The Genetic Basis of Gene Expression
[ video - Barbara Stranger ]
[ video - Chris Cotsapas ]
Barbara Stranger,
Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
Chris Cotsapas,
Research Affiliate, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/12/09 Copy number variation in the human genome
[ video ]
Josh Korn,
Graduate Student, Ó³»­´«Ã½
11/19/09 The Human Haplotype Map and Beyond
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Ó³»­´«Ã½
12/3/09 Population stratification in disease association studies
[ video ]

Alkes Price
Assistant Professor of
Statistical Genetics,
Harvard School of Public Health

12/10/09 Phenotype Definition (With Tales From Psychiatry)
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School
1/14/10 Natural Selection and Human Genetic Variation
[ video ]
Steve Schaffner
Computational Biologist,
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2/25/10 Mouse Genetics
[ video ]
David Beier
Professor, Department of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Primer on Medical and Population Genetics