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.

Recent sessions can be found on the Primer landing page.

2010-2011
  9/16/10 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute
  9/23/10 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/14/10 Primer on genetic variation, LD, HapMap and beyond
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/21/10 Understanding and Interpreting GWAS Data
[ video ]
Paul de Bakker
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
10/28/10 Phenotype Definition (with tales from psychiatry)
[ video ]
Jordan Smoller
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
11/18/10 Genetics of Gene Expression
[ video ]
Barbara Stranger
Associate Member, Broad Institute

Chris Cotsapas
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
12/2/10 Next Generation Resequencing
[ video ]
Mark DePristo
Manager, Medical and Population Genetics Analysis, Broad Institute
 1/20/11 Mouse Genetics
[ video ]
David R. Beier
Associate Member, Broad Institute
 
2009-2010
 9/17/09 Introduction to complex trait genetics
[ video ]
David Altshuler,
Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute
 9/24/09 A primer on human genetic variation
[ video ]
Mark Daly,
Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute
10/1/09 Genetics in Mendelian human disease
[ video ]
James Gusella,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
1008/09 Analysis of genome-wide SNP datasets
[ video ]
Shaun Purcell,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
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, Broad Institute
11/5/09 The Genetic Basis of Gene Expression
[ video - Barbara Stranger ]
[ video - Chris Cotsapas ]
Barbara Stranger,
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Chris Cotsapas,
Research Affiliate, Broad Institute
11/12/09 Copy number variation in the human genome
[ video ]
Josh Korn,
Graduate Student, Broad Institute
11/19/09 The Human Haplotype Map and Beyond
[ video ]
Mark Daly
Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute
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,
Broad Institute
 2/25/10 Mouse Genetics
[ video ]
David Beier
Professor, Department of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School