Population and Statistical Genetics Working Group Evening Lecture

The NYGC has created a Population and Statistical Genetics Working Group that brings together leading population and statistical geneticists and focuses on human population genomics, statistical analyses, and applications to precision medicine. The group is led by Adam Siepel, PhD, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and David Knowles, PhD, of New York Genome Center and Columbia University.

Speakers

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  Philipp Messer, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Department of Computational Biology
  Cornell University

  "Modeling Gene Drive Dynamics in Continuous-Space Populations"

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  Amy Williams, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Department of Computational Biology
  Cornell University

  "Reconstructing Parent Genotypes using Data from Siblings"

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  Adam Siepel, PhD

  Professor, CSHL School of Biological Sciences
  Chair, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  Affiliate Member
  New York Genome Center

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  David Knowles, PhD

  Core Faculty Member
  New York Genome Center
  Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Systems Biology
  Columbia University