Jan
31
Wed
PCPH Palliative Care Section: 2nd Annual Kalanithi Awards @ MSOB x303
Jan 31 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Please join the Division of Primary Care and Population Health's Palliative Care Section for the Kalanithi Award Presentation Wednesday, January 31st at 4:30-6:00 pm MSOB x303

Please join the Division of Primary Care and Population Health’s Palliative Care Section for the Kalanithi Award Presentation
Wednesday, January 31st at 4:30-6:00 pm
MSOB x303

Nov
12
Mon
Rosenkranz Global Health Symposium with keynote by Chris Murray @ William J. Perry Conference Room
Nov 12 @ 8:00 am – 6:00 pm

The Nov. 12 symposium features research talks by young, leading scholars in global health policy research. Our keynote speaker is Christopher J.L. Murray, founder of the Global Burden of Disease project and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Topics include, among others, the effects of rising temperatures on child health in the developing world, environmental regulations in Mexico, and a hard look at the Millennium Villages Project.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. A cocktail reception will be held in the Bechtel Conference Center from 6-6:45 pm following the keynote address by Chris Murray.

See Agenda and RSVP here.

Feb
27
Wed
Kalanithi Awards Presentation 2019 @ Alway M114
Feb 27 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Kalanithi Awards Presentation 2019 @ Alway M114

Please join the Stanford Palliative Care section for:

The Third Annual Kalanithi Awards Presentation 2019.

In Honor of Paul Kalanithi

There will be an announcement of our award winners and food will be provided.

TO RSVP email marapao9@stanford.edu.

May
30
Thu
BMIR Research Colloquium: Zihuai He, PhD “Statistical and Computational Methods do Integrative Analysis of Non-coding Genetic Variation. @ MSOB Conference Room X275
May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Zihuai He, PhD
Assistant Professor (Research) of Neurology and of Medicine
Quantitative Sciences Unit & Biomedical Informatics Research
Stanford University

Abstract:

Understanding the functional consequences of genetic variants is a challenging problem, especially for variants in non-coding regions. The noncoding genome covers ~98% of the human genome and includes elements that regulate when, where, and to what degree protein-coding genes are transcribed. We will talk about a combination of new methodologies for the analysis of noncoding variants, integrating whole genome sequencing, epigenetic technologies and experimental approaches. First, we propose a semi-supervised approach, GenoNet, to jointly utilize experimentally confirmed regulatory variants (labeled variants), millions of unlabeled variants genome-wide, and more than a thousand cell type/tissue specific epigenetic annotations to predict functional consequences of non-coding genetic variants. Second, we propose a scan statistic framework, GenoScan, to simultaneously detect the existence, and estimate the locations of the association signal at genome-wide scale. Last, we will discuss their application to integrative analysis of complex trait genetics.