International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS)
Seminars and group discussions are free and OPEN TO ALL. In addition, seminars are broadcasted free of charge to any research centre interested in participating by videoconference.
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars and group discussions will be held from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST on the first Friday of every month, as indicated in the following table:
| Time | Activity | Locations | Map & Directions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm | Seminar | The Hospital for Sick Children CDIU Multimedia Theatre Room 4132, 4th Floor, Burton Wing 555 University Avenue | [ PDF (140 KB) ] |
| 1:00 pm to 2 :00 pm | Group Discussion Informal post seminar Q&A with guest speaker. Light refreshments served. | The Hospital for Sick Children Room 6711, 6th Floor, Atrium Elevators 170 Elizabeth Street (Main Entrance) | [ PDF (140 KB) ] |
- expose trainees to high-calibre international research
- further interdisciplinary research innovation, discovery, and learning
- foster a cohesive research community of genetic epidemiologists and statistical geneticists in Canada
- promote rigorous and relevant research in this field
- enable new networks of collaborative research
October 2011 – December 2012
| Date | Time | Guest Speakers | Talk Title | Host | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Director, Center for Public Health Genomics Harrison Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences, | The Search for Genes Associated with Ischemic Stroke through GWAS and Exome Sequencing ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Andrew Paterson |
| November 4, 2011 | |||||
| December 2, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Professor, Division of Medical Genetics and Department of Biostatistics | New genomics technologies and complex traits: what do we gain, and what are the challenges? ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | France Gagnon |
| January 6, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Professor Director, Center for Statistical Genetics Department of Molecular and Human Genetics | From Linkage Studies to Next Generation Sequencing and Back Again: Leveraging Next Generation Sequence Data and Families to Identify Disease Genes ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | TBC |
| January 27, 2012 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm |  | Chief, Biostatistics Branch, | Using nuclear families to find genes related to conditions with onset early in life. ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Andrew Paterson |
| March 2, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Urology Associate Director Head, Division of Cancer Epidemiology Co-Leader, | Design and Analysis of Next-generation Genetic Epidemiological Studies. ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF ] | Rayjean Hung |
| April 13, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Vice President for Computational Research and Director Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Statistics | Calibration of Statistical Evidence using Principles of Thermodynamics | Lisa Strug |
| May 4, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department of Health Research and Policy | Evaluating Personal Risk Models | Laurent Briollais |
| June 1, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Professor and Chair Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology | Assessing risk in families with cancer | Laurent Briollais |
| October 5, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm | Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, | TBC | Lei Sun | |
| November 2, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm | On Dr. Brennan | TBC | Rayjean Hung | |
| December 7, 2012 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm | TBC | TBC | ||
May 2010 – October 2011
| Date | Time | Guest Speakers | Talk Title | Host | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 5, 2010 | 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm |  | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow Genetic Epidemiology Group Departments of Health Sciences & Genetics | Copy Number Variation and Complex Human Disease: Examples of Two Recent Studies ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (1.5 MB) ] | Lyle Palmer |
| November 19, 2010 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | President and Scientific Director | Genome Variation and Cancer ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (556 KB) ] | France Gagnon |
| December 3, 2010 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Associate Professor Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics | Multi-reads enable detection of novel peaks in ChIP-seq analysis ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (1 MB) ] | Lei Sun |
| January 14, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Director, Center for Statistical Genetics, and Genome Science Training Program | Identifying Genes for Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits by Genome-Wide Association and Sequencing Studies | Shelley B. Bull |
| February 4, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Distinguishing Second Primary Cancers From Metastases: Statistical Challenges in Testing Clonal Relatedness of Tumors ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (600 KB) ] | Laurent Briiollais |
| March 4, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | INSERM, UMR S 626, | Lessons from Genome-Wide Association Studies in Venous Thrombosis ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (500 KB) ] | France Gagnon |
| April 1, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Associate Professor, Department of Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics) and Statistics (by Courtesy) | Genetics in a Finnish Birth Cohort ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (971 KB) ] | Lei Sun |
| May 6, 2011 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |  | Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health | Impact of Study Design in Genome Wide Association Studies ISSS Colour Poster [ PDF (532 KB) ] | John McLaughlin |
Sponsors
Seminars are sponsored by The Hospital for Sick Children, the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Department of Statistics of the University of Toronto, the Ontario Cancer Institute of the University Health Network, and the CIHR Institute of Genetics.