The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is a professional organization for researchers and clinicians who specialize in human genetics. They work to advance human genetics and genomics in science, healthy and society through research, education and advocacy. The ASHG Annual Meeting was held October 18-22, and several members of the Precision Genomics Collaboratory presented their research:
Faculty Presenters:
Allison Ashley-Koch, Ph.D. | Professor in Medicine, Nephrology; Research Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
“Genome-wide association study of over 40,000 cases of suicide attempts yields eight genome-wide significant loci”
Amy Goldberg, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Biology and Mathematics
“Evolutionary perspectives on human adaptation to malaria”
Elizabeth R Hauser, Ph.D. | Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
“Pathways Implicated in Risk for Suicide Attempts in the Million Veterans Program”
Postdoc Presenters:
Nathan Bihlmeyer, Ph.D. | Computational Genetics Postdoctoral Fellow in the Shah lab
“Pediatrics and proteins: Molecular discovery in the Hearts & Parks study of children with obesity”
Keith Siklenka, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral Assistant in the Reddy lab
“Functional characterization of regulatory elements involved in mouse CD4+ T cell differentiation”
Graduate student presenters:
Apoorva Iyengar | University Program in Genetics and Genomics graduate student in the Reddy lab
“RNA-seq identifies novel regulatory variants underlying Glycogen Storage Diseases”
Young-Sook Kim | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics graduate student in the Reddy lab:
“Joint analysis model of multiple high-throughput sequencing data”
Daniel Snellings | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology graduate student in the Marchuk lab
“Developmental Venous Anomaly: A genetic primer to PIK3CA-related neurological disease?”
Kari Strouse | University Program in Genetics and Genomics graduate student in the Reddy lab
“Defining the effects of noncoding genetic variation on human regulatory element activity”
Jacqueline Vahey| Computational Biology and Bioninformatics graduate student in the Hauser lab
“Genome-wide association study and heritability of Gulf War illness”
Xue Zou |Computational Biology and Bioinformatics graduate student in the Allen lab
“Bayesian estimation of Allele-Specific Expression (ASE) in the presence of phasing uncertainty for identifying genes with aberrant expression”