Happy Friday everyone! I hope everyone was able to attend the Women's Health Research yesterday! At our next meeting: March 10, 2022, Jackie Piekos, MS will be presenting on building and validating polygenic risk scores in various populations, European, African, and combined.
Jackie is an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences student at Vanderbilt University. She currently works with the Velez Edwards and Edwards lab, in which they are interested in using and developing new genomic and statistical analysis tools for research. We then use these tools in our research into the genetics of women’s health and reproductive phenotypes.
If you are interested in attending or presenting at a future WHR meeting please fill out this survey: https://redcap.link/WHR
Future Meetings:
March 24, 2022: Digna Velez Edwards, MS, PhD
Topic: Biospec Lab
April 14, 2022: Sarah Stallings, PhD
Topic: TBD
April 28, 2022: Gabby Hamilton, MS
Topic: Using Shared Genetic Architecture to Increase the Utility of Risk Prediction Models in Diverse Populations
May 12, 2022: Ayush Giri, MS, PhD
Topic: TBD
