Spring 2026 PGSG Seminar Series

UPCOMING:

Thursday, May 21st
Surface protein quantitative trait loci mapping and base editing at single cell resolution to decipher the causal allele at the CD40 autoimmune locus
Presented by Yoshihiko Tomofuji, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Genetics and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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Thursday, March 26th
Epigenetic ageing and the risk of Parkinson’s disease
Presented by Xiaojing Peng, PhD Student, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Thursday, April 9th
A Novel Method to Test Hypotheses Regarding Traits Involved in Parental Genetic Nurture
Presented by Annabel Perry, PhD Candidate, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Thursday, April 23rd
Quantifying uncertainty to improve personalized prediction with genomic deep-learning models
Presented by Joshua Popp, Research Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School

Thursday, April 30th
Context-dependent heteroskedasticity impacts the expression of most genes
Presented by Chaimaa Fadil, PhD Candidate, Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Thursday, May 7th
From Genetic Risk to Molecular Signatures: Leveraging Multi-Omics to Understand Type 2 Diabetes Heterogeneity
Presented by Magdalena del Rocio Sevilla Gonzalez, Instructor in Medicine, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital