GGI Seminar Series
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title | Recording |
| March 1 | Dr. Marcela Uliano da Silva | Vincenza Colonna Erik Garrison |
“Sequencing All Life for the Future of Life: The Darwin Tree of Life Project and Its Contribution to Molecular Evolution and Conservation” | |
| March 24 | Dr. Michael Hiller | Vincenza Colonna | “Comparative Approaches to Associate Phenotypic Differences Between Species to Differences in their Genomes” | No Video |
| April 5 | Dr. Carter Clinton | Keanna Johnson | “Soil Secrets: A Genetic and Historical Investigation into African American Communities” | |
| April 12 | Dr. John Doench | Sadie Walker | “Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys? A Tour of the Functional Genomics Toolbox” | |
| April 19 | Dr. Jennifer Gerton | Erik Garrison Farnez Salehi |
“Illuminating the Dark Matter of the Human Genome” | |
| April 26 | Dr. Feng Yue | Dehui Kong | TBD | |
| May 3 | Dr. Digna Edwards | Erielle Culp | TBD | |
| May 17 | Dr. Ruben van Boxtel | Pjotr Prins | TBD |
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title | Virtual Seminar |
| October 6 | Dr. Richard Miller |
Rob Williams | “Anti-Aging Drugs and Anti-Aging Mechanisms” | |
| December 8 | Dr. Vivek Kumar |
Joy Afolabi | “Mouse Homes and Hotel Towards a Scalable Infrastructure for Neurogenetics and Drug Discovery” | |
| December 15 | Dr. Tyler Beck |
Pjotr Prins | “Connecting the Dots: LitCoin and the Biomedical Data Translator” |
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title | Virtual Seminar |
| March 10 | Dr. Omar Abudayyeh Dr. Jonathan Gootenberg |
Sadie Walker | “Molecular Technologies for Genome Editing and Cell Control” | |
| March 24 | Dr. Ambroise Wonkam |
Ernestine Amos-Abanyie | “Harnessing our Common African Genomes to Improve Health Globally” | |
| March 31 | Dr. Michael MacArthur Dr. Sarah Mitchell |
Beni Mozhui | “High-Dimensional Approaches to Characterize Aging Trajectories” “Sexual Dimorphisms in Longevity Interventions” |
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| April 28 | Dr. Daniel Ciobanu | Megan Mulligan | “Functional and Evolutionary Analysis of Host Synaptogyrin-2 in Viral Disease Susceptibility” | |
| May 5 | Dr. Gideon Alimba | Joy Afolabi | “Protective Effects of Folate on DNA Damage Included by Metals in WIL2-NS Human B Lymphoblastoids Cells” | |
| May 12 | Dr. Glennis Logsdon | Flavia Villani | “The Sequence, Variation, and Evolution of Human Centromeres” |
| Date | Speaker | Host | Title | Virtual Seminar |
| March 4 | Dr. Gerd Blobel |
Chris Rogers | “The Beta-globin Gene Cluster as Paradigm of Gene Regulation and Therapeutic Opportunities” | No video |
| March 11 | Dr. Gianluca Della Vedova |
Flavia Villani | “Computational Aspects of Models of Evolution” | YouTube video |
| April 1 | Dr. Ewan Birney |
Megan Mulligan | “Understanding the Combination of Genetics and Environment on Vertebrate Physiology” | |
| April 22 | Dr. J. David Jentsch | Megan Mulligan | “Sex, drugs and impulsivity: Novel associations discovered in the diverse mouse genome” | |
| May 6 | Dr. Scott Coonrod |
Andrew Jones | TBD | |
| May 20 | Dr. Bernie Daigle |
Joy Afolabi | TBD |
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Date
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Speaker
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Host
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Title
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Virtual Seminar
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August 27
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Dr. Yan Cui
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Megan Mulligan
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“Machine Learning for Health Equity and Causal Inference in Systems Genetics”
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YouTube video |
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September 10
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Dr. Emily Puckett
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Megan Mulligan
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"How Rats Conquered the Globe: Phylogeographic History of Rattus Norvegicus" | YouTube video |
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October 8
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Dr. David Ashbrook
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Megan Mulligan
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“Diallel Crosses, Artificial Intelligence, and Mouse Models of Alzheimer’s Disease” | YouTube video |
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October 22
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Dr. Michael Snyder
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Megan Mulligan
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“Managing Health and COVID-19 Using Big Data” | YouTube video |
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November 5
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Dr. Keesha Roach
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Ansley Stanfill/Rob Williams
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“Pain Genetics in Sickle Cell Disease” | YouTube video |
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November 12
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Dr. Vincenza Colonna
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Megan Mulligan
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“Miscarriages, Pangenomes and Third-Generation Sequencing” | YouTube video |
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December 3
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Dr. Evan Eichler | Megan Mulligan | “Long-read Sequencing, Structural Variation and Disease” | YouTube video |
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December 10
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Dr. Hilary Finucane
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Megan Mulligan
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“Insights from Complex Trait Fine-Mapping Across Diverse Populations” | YouTube video |
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December 17
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Dr. Sarah Tishkoff | Megan Mulligan | “Genomic Evolution and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Health and Disease” | Video Link |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host | Virtual Seminar |
| February 19 | Dr. Daniel Mueller and Victoria Marshe | Towards Precision Medicine in Psychiatry: Clinical Implementation Practice and Genome-wide Predictive Modeling | Panjun Kim | YouTube video |
| March 5 | Dr. Byron Jones | Modeling Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Gulf War Illness in a Genetic Reference Population of Mice | Megan Mulligan | YouTube video |
| March 12 | Dr. Candace Middlebrooks | Translational Studies and Risk Refinement of Genetic Variants that Increase Risk of Bladder, Breast and Hereditary Melanoma Cancers | Claire Simpson | YouTube video |
| April 23 | Dr. Athena Starlard-Davenport | MicroRNA29B: A Possible Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease | Megan Mulligan | YouTube video |
| April 30 | Dr. Erik Garrison | Building Pangenome Graphs | Pjotr Prins | YouTube video |
| May 7 | Dr. Eric Greer | Characterization of a New Epigenetic Model Organism and Modification | Bijay Bisunke | YouTube video |
| May 21 | Dr. April Weissmiller | Taking a Second Look at the MYC-SWI/SNF Interaction | Pamela Watson | YouTube video |
| May 28 | Dr. Cheryl Winkler | APOL1-associated Spectrum of Chronic Kidney Disease: Advances and Challenges | Ernestine Amos-Abanyie | YouTube video |
| June 4 | Dr. Michael Love | Robust and Reproducible Genomic Data Analysis | Jeremiah Holt | No Recording |
| June 11 | Dr. Kathryn Cunningham | The Long and Winding Road to Addiction Therapeutics | Paige Lemen | No Recording |
| June 18 | Dr. Patrick Murphy | Regulation of Chromatin Packaging During Development and Disease Progression | Chelsea DeVaux | YouTube video |
| June 25 | Dr. Enkhe Purevjav | Utilization of BXD Strains Resources for Genetic Research of Human Cardiovascular Diseases | Lu Lu | YouTube video |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host | Virtual Seminar |
| September 2 | Dr. Abe Clark | Using Genetics and Genomics to Identify Novel Glaucoma Pathogenic Pathways | Ashley Fitzgerald | YouTube video |
| September 16 | Dr. Christopher Cowan | It Takes MEF2 to Tango: Linking Synapse Development, Neuroimmune Dysfunction and Syndromic Autism | Paige Lemen | YouTube video |
| September 30 | Dr. Jonathan Pritchard | Why Are Human Complex Traits So Enormously Polygenic? Lessons from Molecular Biomarker Traits | David Ashbrook | YouTube video |
| October 14 | Dr. Charles Nichols | Psychedelics | Megan Mulligan | YouTube video |
| October 21 | Dr. Susanne Schmid | No Filter - Sensory Processing in Autism | Megan Mulligan | YouTube video |
| October 28 | Dr. William Valdar | Modeling Gene X Treatment Effects in the Collaborative Cross and Other Replicable Multi-parent Populations | Megan Mulligan | YouTube video |
| November 18 | Dr. Andrea Gaedigk | The PharmVar Database and Other PGx Resources | Nour Aljouda | YouTube video |