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
12/01/22 Hands-on with Jupyter Notebooks in Terra
[ video ]
Elizabeth Kiernan, Anton Kovalsky, Tiffany Miller
Broad Institute
11/17/22 Hands-on with Jupyter Notebooks in Terra
[ video ]
Elizabeth Kiernan, Anton Kovalsky, Tiffany Miller
Broad Institute
11/03/22 Terra Overview and Platform Tour
[ video ]
Elizabeth Kiernan, Anton Kovalsky, Tiffany Miller
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
Postdoc, Debora S. Marks Lab, Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School

Sarah Gurev
PhD student at MIT in EECS

Primer on Medical and Population Genetics