Primer on Medical and Population Genetics
The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of weekly lectures on genetics topics related to human populations and disease. Experts from across the Medical and Population Genetics community at the Broad Institute give in-depth introductions to research in human genetics through overviews of core concepts and practical tutorials on tools for biostatistics, computational genomics, and variant annotation. Several talks each year focus on bioethical considerations in genomics research. Sessions are generally interactive and attendees are encouraged to raise questions.
Videos of Primer sessions are made freely available for viewing here and are geared towards a wide scientific audience. Videos are also available for streaming at the Broad's publicly available YouTube channel.
If you'd like more information about the primer or have suggestions for future topics, please contact seminar series organizers Sarah Morton and Diane Genereux.
2022 - 2023 Primers
| 05/18/23 | Copy number alterations in Slide-seq data [ video ] |
Diane Zhang Broad Institute |
| 05/11/23 | Individual-level Tissue-Specific Imputed Transcriptomes in Drug Target Prioritization [ video ] |
Xin Wang Broad Institute Massachusetts General Hospital |
| 04/27/23 | Tissue-Aware Conservation Inference Toolkit (TACIT) [ video ] |
Alyssa Lawler Harvard Medical School Broad Institute |
| 03/30/23 | A statistical genetics guide to identifying HLA alleles driving complex disease [ video ] |
Saori Sakaue Broad Institute |
| 03/23/23 | Inferring causal cell types driving human disease and complex traits [ video ] |
Tiffany Amariuta Broad Institute |
| 03/16/23 | STACI [ video ] |
Xinyi Zhang Broad Institute |
| 03/09/23 | Germline Variation and CRISPR screens [ video ] |
Sean Misek Broad Institute |
| 03/02/23 | How cells divide labor using communication and spatial cues [ video ] |
Miri Adler Broad Institute |
| 02/09/23 | Cross-cohort Analysis via Cloud Genomics [ video ] |
Margaret Sunitha MGH, Broad Institute |
| 02/02/23 | Stochasticy in transcription [ video ] |
Anika Gupta Broad Institute |
| 01/19/23 | Genetics of Inherited Retinal Degenerations [ video ] |
Eric Pierce Emily Place Broad Institute Mass Eye & Ear |
| 01/12/23 | Learning representations for image-based profiling of perturbations [ video ] |
Nikita Moshkov Broad Institute |
| 12/08/22 | Clinical interpretation of genes and variants for disease causality [ video ] |
Heidi Rehm Broad Institute |
| 10/20/22 | LORALS long read sequencing [ video ] |
Dafni Glinos Paul Hoffman NY Genome Center |
| 10/13/22 | Haplotype assembly using short and long reads [ video ] |
Ramin Shirali Hossein Zade The Delft Bioinformatics Lab TU Delft, Netherlands |
| 10/06/22 | Creating morphological profiles from image [ video ] |
Beth Cimini Niranj Chandrasekaran Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| 9/22/22 | Linking SNPs with genes in GWAS [ video ] |
Luke O'Connor Schmidt Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| 9/15/22 | Learning from pre-pandemic data to forecast viral antibody escape [ video ] |
Nikki Thadani Sarah Gurev |
