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Genetic Epidemiology

2006-2007 Schedule
Place

Columbia University Department of Statistics's Conference Room (in the School of Social Work Building)
1255 Amsterdam Avenue (between 121st and 122nd streets), New York, NY 10027.

Transportation: from the #1 subway, get off at the 116th street station, walk up Broadway to 120th and then walk over (east) to Amsterdam. You could also walk across the campus at 116th and then walk up.

Room: the conference room (Room 1025) is within the Department of Statistics (Suite 1005), 10th floor of School of Social Work Building.

Date &
Time

5:30-7:00 P.M., usually on the second Thursday of the month

Dinner

Participants are invited to continue informal discussion at dinner following the seminar at a neighborhood restaurant. (Speaker is seminar guest; others pay individually.)

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
10/19/2006

Jonathan Sebat, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Genetics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

High-resolution analysis of genome copy number variation in autism

11/9/2006

Prakash Gorroochurn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University

A Unified Approach For Quantifying, Testing And Correcting Population Stratification In Association Studies

12/14/2006

Stephen Finch, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Applied Math and Statistics
SUNY at Stony Brook

Estimating Mixture Models in Survival Analysis Applications

1/11/2007 Yuanjia Wang, PhD Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Combining Phenotypes using Clustering and Principal Components Analyses based on Heritability for High-dimensional Data
2/8/2007

Laurie Ozelius, PhD Associate Professor
Molecular Genetics Department
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Isolated Population to Implicate Disease Genes: Examples from Dystonia and Parkinson's Disease

3/8/2007

David Greenberg, PhD
Professor & Director of Div. Stat. Gen.
Dept. of Biostatistics
Columbia University

The Genetics of Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy: So you found a gene! And it's been replicated! Now the hard work starts.

4/12/2007

Yang Yang
Ph.D. candidate
Dept. of Applied Math and Statistics
SUNY at Stony Brook

Mixture Modeling of Microarray Gene Expression Data

5/10/2007

Linda Brzustowicz, M.D.
Professor
Department of Genetics
Rutgers University

Searching for Schizophrenia Risk Alleles in NOS1AP

6/14/2007

Sandra Barral-Rodriguez, PhD
Research Associate
Laboratory of Statistical Genetics
Rockefeller University

Schizophrenia and Oxidative Stress: Glutamate Cysteine Ligase Modifier as a Susceptibility Gene