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.
| 2021 - 2022 Primers | ||
| 6/23/22 |
Sparse dictionary learning recovers pleiotropy from human cell fitness screens [ video ] |
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 [ video ] |
Stuart Sevier |
| 6/2/22 |
Analysis of allele-specific expression in single cell and spatial transcriptomics [ video ] |
Luli Zou Epigenomics Broad Institute |
| 5/26/22 |
Shared components of heritability across genetically correlated traits [ video ] |
Jenna Ballard Broad Institute |
| 5/12/22 |
Role for sodium ions in prenatal brain development and disease [ video ] |
Richard Smith Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine |
| 4/28/22 |
The Lipid Droplet Knowledge Portal [ video ] |
Maria Constanzo Tobias Walther Robert Farese Broad Institute |
| 3/31/22 |
Challenges and opportunities for developing more generalizable polygenic risk scores [ video ] |
Ying Wang Martin Lab Broad Institute |
| 3/24/22 |
Rigor and reproducibility in epigenome-wide association studies [ video ] |
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 [ video ] |
Anne Carpenter Juan Caicedo Samira Asgari Broad Institute |
| 3/3/22 |
Non-canonical open reading frames: new dimensions in the human genome [ video ] |
John Prensner Boston Children's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Broad Institute |
| 2/17/22 |
Polygenic risk in the context of monogenic diseases [ video ] |
Victor Nauffal Cardiovascular Disease Initiative Ellinor Lab Broad Institute |
| 2/10/22 |
The contribution of de novo transposon insertions to autism spectrum disorder [ video ] |
Rebecca Borges-Monroy Harvard University Boston Children's Hospital |
| 2/3/22 |
Chronos: a dynamic model for CRISPR data [ video ] |
Joshua Dempster Broad Institute |
| 1/20/22 |
Detecting and tracking contamination in SARS-CoV-2 sequencing with spike-in controls [ video ] |
Kim Lagerborg Sabeti Lab |
| 1/6/22 |
The evolution, evolvability, and engineering of gene regulatory DNA [ video ] |
Carl de Boer University of British Columbia |
| 12/9/21 |
Parental-fetal interplay of immune genes leads to fetal growth restriction [ video ] |
Gurman Kaur Broad Institute University of Oxford |
| 12/2/21 |
Practical decision making for deep learning in cardiac imaging [ video ] |
James Pirruccello Broad Institute |
| 10/28/21 |
Genetic history of neoplastic mutations [ video ] |
Debra Van Egeren |
| 10/14/21 |
Introduction to Linear Models [ video ] |
Jason Morton Eberly College of Sciences Penn State University |
| 9/30/21 |
Coronavirus cross reactivity [ video ] |
Paulina Kaplonek Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard |
| 9/23/21 |
Highly efficient imaging transcriptomics with composite in situ imaging [ video ] |
Brian Cleary Broad Institute |
