Boston-Helsinki Tele Conference for Human Genetics

Participants are from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Institute for Molecular Medicine of Finland, University of Helsinki

This repo contains the schedule, videos, and slide decks that were used in each month's meeting.

Organizers (emails linked to names):
Kumar Veerapen, PhD
Sanni Ruotsalainen

Meetings will be conducted via zoom and links will be sent via a calendar invite. If you are interested, please send an email to the organizers so that you can be included on the listserv and the calendar invite. If you have further questions or interest in presenting your work, please feel free to contact the organizers.

General Schedule
Day: Third Wednesdays of the month
Time: 9:00 AM EST / 4:00 pm (HEL)
Venue: Zoom (link available upon request)

2020

Dates (mm/dd/yyyy)	Themes	Boston Presenter	Helsinki Presenter	Primer	Recording
09/30/2020	PRS and prediction	Pietro Della Briotta Parolo	Jake Lin	Kumar	link
10/21/2020	Statistical Methods	Masa Kanai	Sini Kerminen	Sanni	link
11/25/2020	Pop Gen	NA	Mattia Cordioli	NA	link
12/16/2020	FinnGen Updates	Juha Karjalainen	Arto Lehisto	Kumar	link
01/20/2021	NeuroDev	Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong	TBD	Sanni	TBA
02/17/2021	Pharmacogenetics	Kumar Veerapen	Ari Ahola-Olli	Kumar	TBA
03/17/2021	CV and metabolic	Amy Elliott	Sanni Ruotsalainen	Sanni	TBA
04/21/2021	FinnGen Updates	Mutaamba Maasha	TBD	Kumar	TBA
05/12/2021	Psychosis and Neuro	Henrike Heyne	TBD	Kumar	TBA

December 2020 Call

Theme: COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative (HGI) and FinnGen Updates

Date: December 16th, 2020

Boston/COVID-19 HGI Presenter: Juha Karjalainen, PhD
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: FinnGen Analysis Group and Lead Analyst for COVID-19 HGI
Title: COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative Meta-analysis
Slide deck can be found in 2020_12_slideDeck

Helsinki Presenter: Arto Lehisto
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: FinnGen Analysis Team
Title: FinnGen and Pan-UKBB (UK Biobank) meta-analysis process
Slide deck can be found in 2020_12_slideDeck

Recording for this meeting can be found here

November 2020 Call

Theme: Population Genetics

Date: November 25th, 2020

Only Helsinki presenter for this TC.

Helsinki Presenter: Mattia Cordioli
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: Andrea Ganna's Group
Title: Genetic and environmental determinants of drug adherence and drug purchasing behaviour
Slide deck can be found in 2020_11_slideDeck

Recording for this meeting can be found here

October 2020 Call

Theme: Statistical Methods

Date: October 21st, 2020

Boston Presenter: Masa Kanai
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: Finucane and Daly Groups
Title: Insights into fine-mapping causal variants of complex traits from diverse populations
Slide deck can be found in 2020_10_slideDeck

Helsinki Presenter: Sini Kerminen, PhD
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: Matti Pirinen's Group
Title: Insights into fine-mapping causal variants of complex traits from diverse populations
Slide deck can be found in 2020_10_slideDeck
Link referred to in recording will be made available upon publication.

Recording for this meeting can be found here

September 2020 Call

Theme: Polygenic Risk Score and Disease Prediction

Date: September 30th, 2020

Boston Presenter: Pietro Della Briotta Parolo, PhD
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: FinnGen Analysis Team
Title: PRS in FinnGen
Slide deck can be found in 2020_09_slideDeck or here

Helsinki Presenter: Jake Lin, PhD
e-mail: [email protected]
Group: Matti Pirinen's Group
Title: Construction and analysis of metaPRS on coronary heart disease from associated risks
Slide deck can be found in 2020_09_slideDeck or here

Recording for this meeting can be found here