Workshop IV: Coancestry, Association, and Population Genomics - IPAM

Workshop IV: Coancestry, Association, and Population Genomics

Part of the Long Program Mathematical and Computational Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics
November 29 - December 2, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:05
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:05-09:55
Nick Patterson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
New resources and methods for Human Population Genetics
09:55-10:20
Break
10:20-11:10
Nilanjan Chatterjee (National Cancer Institute)
A distribution theory for predictive-R2 in high-dimensional models and its implications for genome-wide association studies
11:10-11:40
Break
11:40-12:30
Daniel Geschwind (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Genome-wide transcriptome profiling reveals the functional impact of rare de novo and recurrent CNVs in autism: implications for analysis of rare variants in sequence data

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Chiara Sabatti (Stanford University)
Rare and common copy number variants in population isolates
15:30-16:15
Break
16:30-18:00
Carlos Bustamante (Stanford University)
Public Lecture: Interpreting Personal Genomes: Promises and Potential Pitfalls
18:00-19:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute)
Extensions of the PSMC model and more recent population structure
09:50-10:20
Break
10:20-11:10
Eran Halperin (Tel Aviv University)
Ancestry inference in individuals of mixed ancestry
11:10-11:40
Break
11:40-12:30
Kathryn Roeder (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Estimating Heritability from Genetically Inferred Relationships: Treelets Probe Genetic Dark Matter

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Matthew Stephens (University of Chicago)
Inferring effective relative migration surfaces from geographically-indexed large-scale genetic data
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Yun Song (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Efficient inference methods for large-scale population genomics

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Alkes Price (Harvard University)
Title not available
09:50-10:20
Break
10:20-11:10
Itsik Pe'er (Columbia University)
Rapid and Powerful Genome-Wide Multi-locus Scan for Synergistic Effects in Case-Control Studies
11:10-11:40
Break
11:40-12:30
Suzanne Leal (Baylor College of Medicine)
Estimating Genetic Effects and Quantifying Missing Heritability for Complex Traits Due to Rare Variants

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Andrew Clark (Cornell University)
Consequences of explosive population growth on tracts of Identity-by-Descent
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Rasmus Nielsen (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Population genetic analyses of new-generation sequencing data

Friday, December 2, 2011

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Montgomery Slatkin (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
The conditional site frequency spectrum and applications to ancient hominims
09:50-10:20
Break
10:20-11:10
Noah Rosenberg (Stanford University)
Mathematical models of admixture
11:10-11:40
Break
11:40-12:30
John Novembre (University of Chicago)
Ancestry inference in the era of population genomics

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Hongzhe Li (University of Pennsylvania)
Optimal Sparse Segment Identification with Applications in Copy Number Variation Analysis
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Iuliana Ionita (Columbia University)
Statistical Methods for High-Throughput Genetic Studies and Applications
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