Friday, May 15 — 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Chair
Jason Fletcher
University of Wisconsin–Madison
A specialist in health economics and social genomics, Professor Fletcher focuses his research on combining genetics and social science research and examining how in utero and early life conditions affect later-life health, cognition, and mortality. He is an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty, Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies, Center for Demography and Ecology, and the Data Science Institute at the University and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He is co-author of the award winning book, The Genome Factor, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.
Panelists
Bennett McIntosh
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bennett is a PhD candidate in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studies the history and sociology of open science, open data, and statistical methods in 21st-century science. His dissertation is a history of social genomics told through the lens of its infrastructures and cultures of data sharing, from candidate gene studies through the rise of GWAS consortia. He has also written on the challenges that existing models for regulatory policy-making face in adapting to the world of open data. He would very much like to hear from you and your collaborators about how cloud-based research analysis platforms, data use restrictions, and/or agentic AI are influencing your scientific work and professional development.
Presentation or paper
On the Uses of Socially Constructed Categories and the Category of “Social Construct”
Patrick Turley
University of Southern California
Patrick is an associate professor (research) of economics at the Center for Economics and Social Research (CESR) and in the Department of Economics at University of Southern California. At CESR, he is the director of the Behavioral and Health Genomics Center. He is also the chair of the Method Development Working Group and a member of the Steering Committee for the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium.
Presentation or paper
Scientific Efficiency, Author Concentration and Barriers to Entry for Genetic Cohort Studies
Geyu Zhou
Purdue University
Dr. Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Biology and Statistics at Purdue University. He works on developing and applying computational methods to solve problems in human genetics.
Presentation or paper
Genome-Wide Association Study of Birth Year Identifies Genetic Variants with Change of Allele Frequencies Across Birth Cohorts in All of Us Research Program