Lab Meetings QuantGen Group Fall 2018

When? Every Tuesday from 11am -noon

Where? IQ (775 Woodlot Dr.)

Group's Website

Date	Presenter	Topic	Materials
Sept. 18th	Alexander Grueneberg	HPCC: 2018 Environment Update & Migration	Slides, Announcement, Mapping between Moab/TORQUE and Slurm commands, Mapping between Moab/TORQUE and Slurm job submission parameters, Mapping between Moab/TORQUE and Slurm environment variables
Sept. 25th	Gustavo	Complex Trait Prediction with heterogenoeus populations?	Will discuss some preliminary ideas...
Oct. 2nd	Bea Cuyabano	heritability and prediction with genomic models
Oct. 9th	Agustin Gonzalez	A modification of the PLAGE method: Multi-Omic Gene Set and Gene Selection Analysis	I'll review the basics of gene set analysis, using the PLAGE method as an example. I'll also show a modification I used in my thesis, based on sparse SVD ( PLAGE method, sSVD, Comparison of GSA methods)
Oct. 16th	Marco Lopez-Cruz	Better Estimation of Genetic Covariance Matrices using Penalized Maximum Likelihood	The Disccussion will be based on these two papers: Meyer & Kirkpatrick (2010) and Meyer (2011)
Oct. 23rd	Mengying Sun	Locally dependent screening: A Strategy for developing an accurate genomic predictor using Big Data	Slides
Oct. 30th	Mengying & Scott	Discussion on Polygenic Risk Scores	paper 1 and paper 2 and slides
Nov. 6th
Nov. 20th
Nov. 27th	Alexa Lupi
Thursday, Nov 29th (2pm)	Maria Martinez Castillero	Genetic analysis of fertilty traits and study of GxE in dairy cattle	1240 Anthony Hall
Dec. 4th	Gabriel Rovere	Prediction of individual fatty acids content in dairy milk samples using mid-infrared spectra data