A short announcement - my friend, colleague, running partner, and GGD contributor Will Bush is now an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, and investigator in the Center for Human Genetics Research here at Vanderbilt.Getting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
VICC's retreat this year is Tuesday, May 11, 2010. The theme of the retreat looks interesting: "Genomic Approaches for Personalized Medicine." You can register free here. VICC retreat: Genomic Approaches for Personalized MedicineGetting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine and Public Health presents: "Pathway-based analysis for genome-wide association studies" Steven Chen Ph.D Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 2525 West End Avenue 6th Floor BoardroomGetting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
This Thursday's discovery lecture looks interesting. In case you missed last week's Nobel laureate, you can watch the recording from Cech's talk or any of the previous lectures in the discovery series here.
Time for a little shameless self-promotion. I'll be giving a talk in genetics interest group next week. "Using GWAS in an EMR-linked biobank to explore genetic and environmental determinants of HDL cholesterol" Thursday, March 11, 2010 Noon-1pm 206 PRBGetting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
A while back I went to one of these specifically for writing an F31 NRSA fellowship application. Ended up getting one the first try. I thought the workshop was helpful. This looks a little more general, but may give you some ideas about getting external funding that isn't necessarily from NIH. Grant &
Thomas Lasko, MD, PhD, from Google Inc., Mountain View CA, will be giving a seminar next week entitled: "Spectral Anonymization Data" March 3, 2010 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. 214 Light Hall Abstract: The great challenge of data anonymization is to condition a dataset for public release such that it remains scientifically useful, but it does not disclose sensitive information about the individuals it describes.
The Pharmacology department's student invited seminar is coming up next week. Last time the students invited an excellent speaker from Washington to talk about AAAS fellowships. This year's student invited speaker is James S. Bernstein, Director, Government and Public Affairs for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
Doug Robinson (JMP Academic Division, SAS Institute) is giving a presentation of the JMP Genomics software from SAS illustrating data analysis for genetics, expression, and copy number variation studies. Agenda includes: CNV analysis, merging CNV data sets of continuous traits, and QC, analysis, and downstream applications of expression studies.
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series: Statistical Methods for DNA Resequencing Analysis in Disease-Gene Studies Wenyi Wang, Ph.D., Faculty Candidate Stanford Genome Technology Center, UC Berkeley Statistics 2:00-3:00pm Monday, February 15, 2010 MRB III Room 1220 Intended Audience: Persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical