• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Isabel Schmidt (University of Oxford, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
• Organising department: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics

Friday 27 March 2015 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Professional Master Class
  Claudia Kozeny-Pelling (Senior Funding Information & Communications Officer (Research Services))

Thursday 16 April 2015 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:15 - Town Hall Meeting
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Anne Wojcicki (23andMe)

Monday 20 April 2015 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Effects of Nurturing and Assortative Mating on genotype-phenotype associations
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Augie Kong (deCODE)

Monday 1 June 2015 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - HIV viral genomics: virulence, pathogenesis and public health
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christophe Fraser (Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Imperial College)

Tuesday 7 July 2015 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Functional interpretation of genomes using biological networks
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Kasper Lage (Director of Bioinformatics, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Associate Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard )

Wednesday 9 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - "Fine-scale genetic population structure in Finland" and "Efficient variable selection among thousands of correlated genetic variants using summary data from genome-wide association studies"
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Sini Kerminen and Christian Benner (Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland )

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Incorporating geographic context into intervention evaluation: cholera and malaria vaccine trials
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Earliest Cortical Circuits
  Prof Zoltan Molnar (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Moving towards a transcription factor-centric view of "epigenetics"
  Professor John Greally (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

Wednesday 13 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Using High Throughput Sequencing To Study Tumour Clonal Populations
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Andy Roth (University of British Columbia)

Thursday 14 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Insights into malaria parasite protein translation machinery and implications for drug discovery
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Amit Sharma (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India )

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - How Big Image Data Can Help the Smallest Patients
  Associate Professor Marius Linguraru (Associate Professor of Radiology and Paediatrics - George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC and Director of Quantitative Imaging Group - Children’s National Health System, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Washington, DC, USA)

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Uncovering intratumor heterogeneity with Bayesian nonparametrics
  Ke Yuan (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 20 April 2016 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Imaging genomics of functional brain networks
  Dr Jonas Richiardi (Standford University and University of Geneva)

Friday 27 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Opportunities for Scaling Up Genetic Analysis
  Prof Ben Neale (ATGU/MGH, Broad Institute or Harvard and MIT)

Friday 8 July 2016 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Genetics and genomics of human sperm production
  Assistant Professor Don Conrad (Washington University School of Medicine)

Monday 11 July 2016 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Reducing bias of genetic effect estimates when transforming between linear and non-linear scales
  UNFORTUNATELY, THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED
  Dr Chris Foley (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 31 August 2016 (19th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Modelling rare genetic variation to investigate recent human history
  Dr. Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Diversity and interactions in tumor growth and treatment
  Dr Philipp Altrock (Harvard School of Public Health)

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - An epidemiologist's life on the edge (of the science-policy interface)
  Professor Christl Donnelly (Imperial College, London)

Tuesday 8 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Decoding clonal dynamics in cancer, to single cell resolution
  Professor Samuel Aparicio (Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver)

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Connecting genetic risk to disease endpoints through the human blood plasma proteome
  Prof. Dr. Karsten Suhre (Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar )

Monday 9 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - New mathematical models for estimating generalised HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Jeff Eaton (Imperial College London)

Tuesday 10 January 2017 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Learning from the uncertain: modelling and forecasting infectious disease dynamics
  Dr Sebastian Funk (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Metabolomic and proteomic aberrations in diabetes: cause or consequence?
  Associate Professor Tove Fall (Uppsala University)

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The Polycomb system in X inactivation and beyond
  Professor Neil Brockdorff (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Africa Health Research Institute- a new multidisciplinary HIV and TB centre in South Africa
  Prof. Deenan Pillay (Africa Centre for Population Health)

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Next generation association studies for complex traits: Progress in understanding the genomic landscape of osteoarthritis
  Professor Ele Zeggini (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)

Monday 27 March 2017 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Julia for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  Dr Ben Ward (Earlham Institute, Norwich)

Monday 3 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Reaching the target for neglected tropical diseases
  Dr Deirdre Hollingsworth (University of Warwick)

Wednesday 5 April 2017 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Lexogen seminar highlighting the benefits of QuantSeq 3' mRNA-Seq library prepartion for Next Generation Sequencing
  Professor Jernej Ule (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, The Francis Crick Institute, Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London), Associate Professor André Furger (Chromosomal and RNA Biology, Department of Biochemistry University of Oxford)

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Family-based integrative approaches to elucidate the genetic architecture of spondyloarthritis
  Félicie Costantino (Ambroise Paré University Hospital)
• 14:00 - Bayesian multivariate re-analysis of large genetic studies identifies many novel associations
  Michael Turchin (University of Chicago)

Monday 10 July 2017 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - DEEP LEARNING: OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, AND APPLICATIONS IN LIFE SCIENCES
  Dr Ulrich Bodenhofer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New genetic and physiological systems to discover mechanisms involved in diabetes pathogenesis
  Professor Seung K. Kim (Stanford University School of Medicine)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - High-throughput sequencing reveals insights into the relationships between B-cell antibody repertoire, phenotype and function in health, cancer and autoimmune disease
  Dr Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - A NuRD Complex from Xenopus laevis Eggs Is Essential for DNA Replication during Early Embryogenesis
  Dr Torsten Krude (University of Cambridge)

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Screening human genome to dissect mechanisms of susceptibility to mycobacterial infection and tuberculosis
  Dr Sergey Nejentsev (University of Cambridge)

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - A journey of metabolic discovery: from rare disease and rare variant, to common trait and common variant
  Dr Ines Barroso (Wellcome Sanger Institute )

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - SINGLE CELL SEMINARS - WELLCOME CENTRE FOR HUMAN GENETICS
  TBA

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - The gut-microbiota connection in type 1 diabetes
  Dr Emma Hamilton-Williams (The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute)

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - DNA repair mechanisms required for meiotic progression involving SWS1-SWSAP1 and BRCA2
  Dr Carla Abreu (Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Portugal)

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - An immunogenetics approach to studying immune-cell involvement in ankylosing spondylitis
  Aimee Hanson (The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute)

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - NGS of Immune Repertoire for biomarker discovery
  Dr Jian Han (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology)

Wednesday 5 December 2018 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Pol epsilon – structure, function and cancer
  Professor Erik Johansson (Umea University)

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Discovery of two transcriptional states of neuroblastoma cells via the analysis of super-enhancer landscape
  Valentina Boeva (Institut Cochin, Paris, France)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Population medical genomics in Latin America: The Mexican Biobank Project
  Professor Andrés Moreno Estrada (Stanford University)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - POLE and POLD1 variants in hereditary cancer and evaluation of candidate colorectal cancer predisposing genes
  Laura Valle (Catalan Institute of Oncology / IDIBELL Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain)

Wednesday 3 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Deciphering the genetics of common immune diseases
  Dr Gosia Trynka (University of Cambridge)

Monday 8 July 2019 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Hidden relatedness, natural selection and disease heritability in the UK Biobank
  Pier Francesco Palamara (University of Oxford)

Friday 19 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Chris Gignoux: “Leveraging human genetic diversity in our study of complex trait architecture”, Paul Norman: “Ancient and Modern Admixture Enhanced Natural Killer cell activity in Asia and Oceania”
  Prof Chris Gignoux (Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado, Denver), Prof Paul Norman (Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado, Denver)

Thursday 1 August 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - In vivo functions and targets of the hub protein DYNLL1
  Jörg Heierhorst (St. Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, Australia)

Tuesday 10 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Using single-cell genomics to model cell fate decisions and understand the regulation of variability in gene expression
  Dr John Marioni (EMBL-EBI)

Wednesday 11 September 2019 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Investigating the contribution of 5’untranslated region variants to human disease
  Nr Nicky Whiffin (Imperial College, London)

Wednesday 25 September 2019 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Functional characterization of androgen receptor mediated transcription
  Dr Nathan Lack (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Whole-genome sequencing of rare disease patients in a national healthcare system
  Ernest Turro (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - Perfecting DSB Repair on Transcribed Chromatin
  Dr Michael Huen (LKS Faculty of Medicine The University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Global tumor transcriptional activity reveals aggressiveness across multiple cancers
  Dr Wenyi Wang (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
• 13:00 - How can ethics add value for pathogen sequencing in research, clinical practice and public health?
  Dr Stephanie Johnson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Antibody Secreting Cells and Dengue Virus Infections
  Professor Guey Chuen Perng (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Using viral genomics to improve HIV prevention in sub Saharan Africa
  Professor Christophe Fraser (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - From multi-omic discoveries to clinical insights
  Dr Claudia Langenberg (University of Cambridge)

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - “The role of DJ-1/PARK7 in regulatory T cells"
  Professor Rudi Balling (University of Luxembourg)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - New methods to discover and validate genetic subtypes of complex disease
  Dr Andrew Dahl (University of Chicago)

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Using functional genomics to study human CD4+ T cells
  This talk will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please turn off your video sharing and mute your microphones for the duration of the meeting. Paste this address into your browser to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2f_%23%2fl%2fmeetup-join%2f19%3ameeting_MzYzMzFkODQtZjY2OS00ZjAwLWFiNWYtYzhjOGFkZTExZjc4%40thread.v2%2f0%3fcontext%3d%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%2522cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522faee8eaf-f9bf-478e-9151-5bbfc3b39a0f%2522%257d%26anon%3dtrue&type=meetup-join&deeplinkId=591d00d0-4f89-49e5-bd50-10664d92c537&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true
  Eddie Cano Gamez (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Wednesday 19 August 2020 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - “Coordination between vesicle acidification and trafficking at the neuronal synapse”
  This talk will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please turn off your video sharing and mute your microphones for the duration of the meeting. Paste this address into your browser to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzJmN2E1YmYtMTkzMy00NDA4LTg4MjQtYTI1NmZjNDYzOTY2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22faee8eaf-f9bf-478e-9151-5bbfc3b39a0f%22%7d
  Dr. Ira Milosevic (European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen)

Thursday 17 September 2020 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Leveraging population differences to learn about the genetic basis of susceptibility to infectious diseases
  This talk will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please turn off your video sharing and mute your microphones for the duration of the meeting. Paste this address into your browser to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_ZTY2ZjA0MTMtNmJhNi00N2MyLTlkMjEtZTJmZDJmZDYwOWU3@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22,%22Oid%22:%22faee8eaf-f9bf-478e-9151-5bbfc3b39a0f%22%7D&anon=true&deeplinkId=ab9004c4-8b2c-4c8e-d7b6-03630fa23610
  Dr Samira Asgari (Harvard University)

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The mechanisms that keep metabolism flexible
  Please be aware that this seminar will be recorded. You can join using the following link: https://zoom.us/j/98070120965?pwd=REpxbGMwaTdIS095enZQV29UVUlNUT09 Meeting ID: 980 7012 0965 Passcode: 175575 For those outside the UK you can find your local number here: https://zoom.us/u/ad86JomL1D
  Professor Markus Ralser (Charité University Medicine, Berlin)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Hyperpolarised 13C MRI - a novel technique to probe cerebral metabolism
  Please note that this seminar will be recorded. You can join using the following link: https://zoom.us/j/93447611942?pwd=UHZ1Q1JIenZuTjZlS3o2V3pxQkIwQT09 Meeting ID: 934 4761 1942 Passcode: 878543 For those outside the UK you can find your local number here: https://zoom.us/u/aeJKH5d1ZR
  Dr James Grist (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Genotype and cell identity in colorectal cancer: experimental modelling of tumour evolution
  Please note that this seminar will be recorded. You can join using the following link: https://zoom.us/j/99281523878?pwd=dGlqWGV5UkNwdkhxQWpuOHl5TFo1QT09 Meeting ID: 992 8152 3878 Passcode: 027138 For those outside the UK you can find your local number here: https://zoom.us/u/agnS15yPi
  Professor Simon Buczacki (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Linking basement membrane biology to human genetic variation and disease
  Please note that this seminar will be recorded. You can join using the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86913664509 Meeting ID: 869 1366 4509 Passcode: 204001 For those outside the UK you can find your local number here: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/ki4hZuzgz
  Professor Rachel Lennon (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - “Fulfilling Genomic Promissories- an interdisciplinary approach to translation and implementation”
  Topic: WHG Seminar - Professor Anneke Lucassen, University of Southampton Time: Jun 1, 2021 12:00 PM London Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84390638447 Meeting ID: 843 9063 8447 Passcode: 490863 For those outside the UK you can find your local number here: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kEoJPwfbg
  Professor Anneke Lucassen (University of Southampton)