Translational Genomics Hosts Genomic Diversity and Human Disease Lecture Series

 

 

 

Moving Beyond the Social Construct of Race in Genomics Research

Vence L. Bonham Jr., JD

Senior Advisory to the NHGRI Director on Genomics and Health Disparities
Associate Investigator – Social and Behavioral Research Branch
NHGRI 

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Friday, January 22, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

1000 Genomes: Defining Global Genetic Ancestry

David Craig, PhD

Professor
Department of Translational Genomics
University of Southern California

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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genetic Ancestry in African Populations

Charles Rotimi, PhD

NIH Distinguished Investigator
Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch
NHGRI

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Friday, January 29, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genetic Ancestry and Complex Human Diseases

Esteban González Burchard, MD, MPH

Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Lung Biology (SOM)
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco 

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Leveraging Genetic Ancestry to Study Health Disparities

Rick Kittles, PhD

Associate Director of Health Equities, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor and Director, Division of Health Equities, Department of Population Sciences
City of Hope 

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Friday, February 5, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genetic Ancestry and Cancer Genomics

Timothy R. Rebbeck, PhD

Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention
Epidemiology
Harvard

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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genetic Ancestry and Prostate Cancer

Christopher Haiman, ScD

Professor of Preventive Medicine
AFLAC Chair in Cancer Research
University of Southern California

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Friday, February 12, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genomics of Prostate Cancer in African Americans

Franklin W. Huang, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California San Francisco

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genomics of Multiple Myeloma in African Americans

Zarko Manojlovic, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Translational Genomics
Director, Keck Genomics Platform
University of Southern California 

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Friday, February 19, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

African Ancestry in Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Clayton C. Yates, PhD

Professor, Department of Biology and Center for Cancer Research
Tuskegee University

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genetics of Multiple Myeloma in African Americans

Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH

Professor of Preventive Medicine
Leader, Translational Epidemiology
Director, Population-based Tissue Procurement Core
University of Southern California

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Friday, February 26, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Population Diversity and Risk of Leukemia Treatment Outcomes

Jun J. Yang, PhD

Member, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Faculty
Pharmaceutical Sciences Department
Oncology Department
Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Genetic Diversity and Colorectal Cancer

Nathan A. Ellis, PhD

Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
Shared Resource Director, Genome Editing Facility
Cancer Biology Program

University of Arizona Cancer Center

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Friday, March 5, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
 

 

Genetic Diversity in Africa and Caner Disparities

Folakemi T. Odedina, PhD

Professor
Pharmacotherapy & Translational Research
University of Florida

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Duffy Allele, Ancestry, and Breast Cancer

Melissa Davis, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in Surgery
Scientific Director of the International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes
Weill Cornell Medicine

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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Genetics of Cancer in Latin Americans

Laura Fejerman, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
UC Davis 

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Friday, March 19, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Breast Cancer Disparities

Kevin L Gardner, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology
Columbia University

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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Vitamin D and Allostatic Load

Chanita Hughes-Halbert, MS, PhD

Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Genetics, Ancestry, and Disease Risk – An Industry Perspective

Altovise T. Ewing, PhD, LCGC

Senior Science Leader- Global Health Equity Strategy
Genentech

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Friday, April 9, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Genetic Diversity and Pancreatic Cancer

Veronica Wendy Setiawan, PhD

Professor of Preventive Medicine
University of Southern California

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Diversity and Breast Cancer

Victoria L. Seewaldt, MD

Ruth Ziegler Chair in Population Sciences
Chair, Department of Population Sciences
City of Hope

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Friday, April 16, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
   

Genetic Ancestry, Biology, and Lung Cancer in African Americans

Brid M. Ryan, PhD, MPH

Stadtman Investigator
Head, Integrative Molecular Epidemiology Unit
NIH

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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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