LAB-SPRING-2021

Lab Meetings QuantGen Group Spring 2021

Where? Zoom (will be distributed)

When? Fridays 11:00am-noon

Group's Website

Date	Presenter(s)	Topic(s)	Materials
Fr. Jan 22nd		Organizational meeting
Fr. Jan 29th	No meeting
Fr. Feb 5th	Gustavo	Quantifying the role of imperfect LD on trans-ethnic genomic prediction	Background: Veturi et al. (2019) / Additional materials will be posted soon...
Fr. Feb 12th	Fernando	Pleiotest Package	repo
Fr. Feb 19th	Guanqi	Annotation of functional variation in personal genomes using RegulomeDB	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3431494/
Fr. Feb 26th	Agustin	"Fast, Exact Bootstrap PCA for p > 1 million"	Fisher (not THAT Fisher) et al. 2016
Fr. March 12th	Alexa Lupi
Fr. March 19th
Fr. March 26th
Fr. April 2nd	Anirban	A simple new approach to variable selection in regression, with application to genetic fine mapping	Link
Fr. April 9th	Alex	GPGPU / CUDA	Slides
Fr. April 16th	Marco	TBD
Fr. April 23rd	Harold	Comprehensive Multiple eQTL Detection and Its Application to GWAS Interpretation	Link
Fr. April 30th	Robert Quinn's Lab	Integrating Metabolomic and Microbiome data: Emerging Research Questions	Quinn's Lab

Guidelines:

• Update the topic and materials at least 2 weeks prior to your presentation.
• Start preparing your presentation at least 2 weeks in advance.
• Target for a presentation no longer that 30 min.
• Don't have more than 25 slides, this will allow you to elaborate and you won't need to rush.
• Practice, practice, and practice....
• Start giving the audience 10 min to go over your materials (either a paper, or slides)
• Send them a quick survey with 2-3 multiple choice questions.
• Their answers, which you will be able to see immediately should give you an idea of the understanding that your audience have about what you will be presenting.
• While presenting, elaborate on each slide, don't just read what the slide says.
• Consider doing, by ~ half of your presentation one question via survey. This will help people not get distracted and will make a pause on your presentation.
• Be sure your presentation covers the following:
  • Background and significance: provide background on the topic and explains why the research that you are about to present is relevant.
  • Data and methods: explain what is essential, and avoid spending time explaining details.
  • Results: focus first on the main results. Offer remarks about these results. if pertinent, you can have a couple of slides on not-so-central results that may be interesting or may offer insight.
  • Conclusions or, if you are presenting a proposal pose questions that you want the audience to discuss.