Spring 2023 Seminars
The Social Genomics research group will meet weekly from 9:00-10:30 AM on Wednesdays during the 2023 spring semester (unless otherwise noted below). Meetings will be held in 1328 Sterling Hall and/or virtually. Please contact Grace Herndon (gherndon@wisc.edu) for meeting details.
| February 3, 2023* (Friday) | Sjoerd van Alten, Vrije University of Amsterdam; Perline Demange, Vrije University of Amsterdam | Correcting for volunteer bias in GWAS uncovers novel genetic variants and increases heritability estimates; Education and Mental Health: an Intergenerational Study |
| February 8, 2023 | n/a | Lab Group Updates |
| February 15, 2023 | Jennifer Smith, University of Michigan School of Public Health | Epigenomic biomarkers of social exposures are associated with cardiovascular risk factors and mortality |
| February 22, 2023 | Gracie Venechuk, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Sociology | The Effect of County-Level Recession Intensity on Accelerated Epigenetic Aging: Evidence from the 2008-2010 Recession |
| March 1, 2023 | Zijie Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics | Latent Genetic Factor Analysis using Expectation-Maximization |
| March 8, 2023 | Jiacheng Miao, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison Department Biostatistics and Medical Informatics | Quantifying gene-population interactions |
| March 15, 2023 | No ISG Meeting – UW-Madison Spring Break | |
| March 22, 2023 | No meeting this week | |
| March 29, 2023 | TBD | |
| April 5, 2023 | TBD | |
| April 12, 2023 | No ISG Meeting – PAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA | |
| April 19, 2023 | TBD | |
| April 26, 2023 | Javier de la Fuente, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Psychology & Population Research Center | TBD |
| May 3, 2023 | TBD | |
| May 10, 2023 | TBD |
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Event Archive
For information on past meetings and events sponsored by the Initiative in Social Genomics, click on the following links to view a list of Presentations and a collection of Videos.