Previous ASHG Talks & Titles

2023 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

November 1-5, 2023, in Washington, DC

ASHG Talks

Jordan Rossen. “MultiSuSiE improves multi-ancestry fine-mapping in All of Us whole-genome sequencing data.” Platform Talk. Thursday, November 2nd, 8:30am, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C, Level 3, Session 010.

Arun Durvasula. “Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank.” Platform Talk. Thursday, November 2nd, 10:45am, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 146B, Level 1, Session 020.

Ben Strober. “Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.” Platform Talk. Saturday, November 4th, 1:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom C, Level 3, Session 107.

Gaspard Kerner (with previous mentor Lluis Quintana-Murci). “Antagonistic selection of infectious and non-infectious immune-mediated disorders revealed by vertical pleiotropy.” Plenary Talk. Saturday, November 4th, 6:20pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Ballroom ABC, Level 3, Session 127.

ASHG Posters

Elizabeth Dorans. “An integrative strategy to link regulatory elements from disease GWAS to genes using single-cell multimode data.” Poster #1027 on Thursday, November 2nd, 3:00 – 5:00pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB.

Robert Warmerdam (with primary mentor Lude Franke). “eQTLGen phase 2: Genome-wide trans-eQTL analysis in blood in over 35,000 individuals provides insight into the genetic architecture of molecular traits.” Poster #1093 on Thursday, November 2nd, 3:00 – 5:00pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB.

Chaimaa Fadil (with rotation mentor Joel Hirschhorn). “Combining GWAS and tissue-specific multiomic data to identify candidate human height genes.” Poster #1392 on Saturday, November 4th, 2:15 – 4:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Buu Truong (with co-mentor Liming Liang). “Characterizing the genetic architecture of comprehensive inflammatory markers and their associations with obesity.” Poster #1047 on Saturday, November 4th, 2:15 – 4:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB.

Martin Zhang. “Estimating SNP-pair affect correlations across functional annotations.” Poster #4135 on Saturday, November 4th, 2:15 – 4:15pm, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Poster Hall AB. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.



2022 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 25-29, 2022, in Los Angeles, California

ASHG Talks

Tiffany Amariuta. “Modeling tissue and gene co-regulation reveals causal tissues for disease.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 28th, 11:15am, Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 502, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 381.

Huwenbo Shi (with co-first author Martin Zhang). “Cell-type transcriptome-wide association studies and fine-mapping via deconvolution using single-cell RNA-seq.” Platform Talk. Friday, October 28th, 11:45am, Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 431.

Xilin Jiang. “Age-dependent topic modelling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk.” Platform Talk. Wednesday, October 26th, 2:00pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Concourse Hall F, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 183.

Ben Strober. “Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.” Poster Talk. Tuesday, October 25th, 7:21pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 633P.

Kushal Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing genes and gene programs for disease by integrating genetic and perturbation data.” Poster Talk. Tuesday, October 25th, 7:33pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Petree Hall D, West Building, Prog.Nbr. 612P.

ASHG Posters

Ben Strober. “Fine-mapping causal tissues and genes at disease-associated loci.” Poster #2585 on Wednesday, October 26th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Arun Durvasula. “Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank.” Poster #3373 on Thursday, October 27th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Kushal Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing genes and gene programs for disease by integrating genetic and perturbation data.” Poster #1596 on Thursday, October 27th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building. *This presentation was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Jordan Rossen. “MultiSuSie: Multi-population fine-mapping under the sum of single effects model.” Poster #3523 on Thursday, October 27th, 3:00 – 4:45pm, Los Angeles Convention Center, Poster Hall, South Building.



2021 American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting

October 18-22, 2021

ASHG Talks

Tiffany Amariuta. “Modeling tissue co-regulation to quantify tissue-specific contributions to disease heritability.” Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 5:30pm. Session 020. *This presentation was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

Sam Kim. “Leveraging single-cell ATAC-seq to identify disease-critical fetal and adult brain type cells.” Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 6:30pm. Session 020.

Ben Strober (with previous mentor Alexis Battle). “Uncovering context-specific genetic regulation of gene expression from single-cell RNA-sequencing using latent-factor models”. Platform talk. Tuesday, October 19th, 6:45pm. Session 020.

Alkes L. Price (project led by Karthik Jagadeesh & Kushal K. Dey). “Identifying disease-critical cell types and cellular processes across the human body by integration of single-cell profiles and human genetics.” Platform talk. Wednesday, October 20th, 11:45am. Session 026.

Richard Border (with primary mentor Noah Zaitlen). “Widespread evidence of systematic bias in estimates of genetic correlation due to assortative mating”. Plenary talk. Wednesday, October 20th, 1:40pm. Session 027. *This presentation was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award.

ASHG Posters

Wouter Peyrot. “Distinguishing different psychiatric disorders using polygenic prediction.” Poster #2695 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. This work was also presented as a platform talk at WCPG 2021.

Huwenbo Shi (with co-first author Martin Jinye Zhang). “Transcriptome-wide association studies and fine-mapping at cell-type resolution.” Poster #3124 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Kushal K. Dey (with co-first author Karthik Jagadeesh). “Prioritizing disease genes by integrating GWAS and WES with gene-level functional and perturbation data.” Poster #3184 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Martin Jinye Zhang (with co-first author Kangcheng Hou). “Polygenic enrichment distinguishes disease associations of individual cells in single-cell RNA-seq data.” Poster #3505 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected for a 2021 ASHG/Charles J. Epstein Research Semifinalist Award. This poster was also selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Karthik Jagadeesh (with co-first author Kushal K. Dey). “Dynamic cell-type-specific eQTL from single-cell RNA-seq of inflamed and non-inflamed colon elucidate biological mechanisms of ulcerative colitis.” Poster #3816 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice.

Steven Gazal. “Combining SNP-to-gene linking strategies to pinpoint disease genes and assess disease omnigenicity.” Poster #3878 on Monday, October 18th. *This poster was selected as a Reviewer’s Choice. This work was also presented as a platform talk at ProbGen 2021.