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Worldwide Lab Meetings
Worldwide Lab Meetings
PGC Worldwide Lab Meetings are held monthly and showcase research conducted by PGC members.
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jian Yang | February 24, 2025 | From Genetic Associations to Genes and Cellular Contexts for Human Complex Traits | View |
| Shuyang Yao | March 24, 2025 | Connecting genomic results for psychiatric disorders to human brain cell types and regions reveals convergence with functional connectivity | View |
Archived Worldwide Lab Meetings
To view previous World Wide Lab recordings, you can also visit the PGC YouTube World Wide Lab playlist.
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica E. Salvatore Ph.D, Jacquelyn Meyers, Ph.D, Dina Popova, Ph.D, Dr. Howard Edenberg, and Dr. Arpana Agrawal. | January 11, 2023 | Findings from The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) | View |
| Dr Boris Chaumette, Prof David Ledbetter, Dr Kimberley Kendall, and Prof James Walters | February 28, 2023 | Psychiatric Genomics in the Clinic - International Experiences | View |
| Prof Mike Gandal, Dr Gabriel Hoffman, Prof Georgios Voloudakis, and Dr Panos Roussos | March 6, 2023 | Using psychENCODE related data for QTL-like analyses and integration with genetic risk variation | View |
| Dr Chia-Yen Chen, Dr Till Andlauer, and Prof Barbara Franke | April 5, 2023 | Combining academia and industry in a research career in psychiatric genetics: appointments collaborations, and other models | View |
| Dr Niall Boyce and Prof Cathryn Lewis | April 24, 2023 | Wellcome’s Mental Health funding programme, and its plans to create a step-change in early intervention in anxiety, depression, and psychosis. | View |
| Roseann E. Peterson, PhD, Rachel L. Kember, PhD, Karmel Choi, PhD, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD, and Maria Niarchou, PhD | May 9, 2023 | PsycheMERGE Network: Using Electronic Health Records to Advance Psychiatric Genomics Research | View |
| Akena Dickens, Celia van der Merwe, Conrad Iyegbe, and Niran Okewole | June 26, 2023 | PGC Africa Working Group: four different psychiatric genetics initiatives in Africa | View |
| Prof Naomi Wray, Xiaotong Wang MD, and Jian Zeng PhD | December 4, 2023 at 3:00 pm US EST | Polygenic risk prediction: why and when out-of-sample prediction R2 can exceed SNP-based heritability. | View |
2019 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phil Lee | Feb 8, 2019 | Cross-disorder GWAS of 8 Psychiatric Disorders | View |
| Alicia Martin, Elizabeth Atkinson and Laramie Duncan | Mar 22, 2019 | Analysis Across Ancestry | View |
| Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. | Apr 5, 2019 | The NIMH Director’s Perspective on Psychiatric Genomics | View |
| Peter Visscher | May 30, 2019 | Estimation of genetic variance from whole genome sequence data | View |
| Sophie Legge, Elliott Rees, Alexander Richards | June 14, 2019 | UK Biobank–Analyses related to SCZ and psychosis | View |
| Hilary Coon, Anna R. Docherty, Niamh Mullins, Douglas Ruderfer | Sept 27, 2019 | Insight into the Genetics of Suicide | View |
2015 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter(s) | Date | Title and PowerPoint Slides | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerome Breen | Mar. 13, 2015 | The PGC Pathway Analysis Group: Current Findings and Future Directions | Audio |
| Kevin Eggan | Apr. 10 2015 | "Ruggedizing" Stem Cell Technologies for the Study of Psychiatric Disease | Audio |
| Patrick Sullivan | May 8, 2015 | Planning the PGC3 Grant: Talk #2 | Audio |
| Benjamin Neale | June 12, 2015 | Brainstorm: Integrating Genome-Wide Association Results from Neurology and Psychiatry | Audio |
| Nancy Cox | Sept. 11, 2015 | Novel Methods for Discovering and Characterizing Genome Variation Affecting Neuropsychiatric Disorders in BioVU | Audio |
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica E. Salvatore Ph.D, Jacquelyn Meyers, Ph.D, Dina Popova, Ph.D, Dr. Howard Edenberg, and Dr. Arpana Agrawal. | January 11, 2023 | Findings from The Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) | View |
| Dr Boris Chaumette, Prof David Ledbetter, Dr Kimberley Kendall, and Prof James Walters | February 28, 2023 | Psychiatric Genomics in the Clinic - International Experiences | View |
| Prof Mike Gandal, Dr Gabriel Hoffman, Prof Georgios Voloudakis, and Dr Panos Roussos | March 6, 2023 | Using psychENCODE related data for QTL-like analyses and integration with genetic risk variation | View |
| Dr Chia-Yen Chen, Dr Till Andlauer, and Prof Barbara Franke | April 5, 2023 | Combining academia and industry in a research career in psychiatric genetics: appointments collaborations, and other models | View |
| Dr Niall Boyce and Prof Cathryn Lewis | April 24, 2023 | Wellcome’s Mental Health funding programme, and its plans to create a step-change in early intervention in anxiety, depression, and psychosis. | View |
| Roseann E. Peterson, PhD, Rachel L. Kember, PhD, Karmel Choi, PhD, Sandra Sanchez-Roige, PhD, and Maria Niarchou, PhD | May 9, 2023 | PsycheMERGE Network: Using Electronic Health Records to Advance Psychiatric Genomics Research | View |
| Akena Dickens, Celia van der Merwe, Conrad Iyegbe, and Niran Okewole | June 26, 2023 | PGC Africa Working Group: four different psychiatric genetics initiatives in Africa | View |
| Prof Naomi Wray, Xiaotong Wang MD, and Jian Zeng PhD | December 4, 2023 at 3:00 pm US EST | Polygenic risk prediction: why and when out-of-sample prediction R2 can exceed SNP-based heritability. | View |
2018 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Pritchard | Feb 9, 2018 | Omnigenic architecture of human complex traits | View |
| Katja Luck and Matthijs Verhage | Mar 9, 2018 | Katja: Towards a reference human protein interactome map Matthijs: SynGO-the Synapse Gene Ontology and Annotation Project | View |
| Yun Li and Kyoko Watanabe | Apr 13, 2018 | Yun Li: HUGIn: a handy online visualization tool for across-tissue chromatin spatial organization data Kyoko: Functional mapping and annotation of genetic associations with FUMA | View |
| Paola Giusti, Renato Polimanti, P.R. Jansen and Nicholas Clifton | May 11, 2018 | Schizophrenia & a high-res map of the 3D chromatin interactome of adult & fetal cortex Genetic Overlap and Causality among MDD,Alcohol Dependence and Alcohol Consumption GWAS meta-analysis of insomnia in over 1 million participants from UK Biobank and 23andMe | View |
| Marcus Munafò | Jun 22, 2018 | Cannabis, Tobacco and Mental Health | View |
| Michael Gandal | Aug 10, 2018 | Leveraging human brain transcriptomics to identify a convergent molecular pathology of psychiatric disease | View |
| Nicholas Bray | Sept 14, 2018 | Gene regulation in the developing human brain and genetic risk for neuropsychiatric disorders | View |
| Niamh Mullins and David Howard | Nov 9, 2018 | Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci associated with bipolar disorder | View |
| Dan Geschwind | Dec 14, 2018 | Integrative genomics reveals the developmental origins of neuropsychiatric conditions | View |
2014 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter(s) | Date | Title and PowerPoint Slides | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Kessler | Jan. 10, 2014 | The Global Burden of Mental Illness | Audio |
| Kerry Ressler | Feb. 14, 2014 | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Understanding the Intersection of Gene, Environment, and Brain | Audio |
| Peter Kraft | Mar. 14, 2014 | Gene-Environment Interactions in Genome-Wide Association Studies: Conceptual and Statistical Issues | Audio |
| Ole A. Andreassen | Apr. 11, 2014 | Boosting the Power of Psychiatric GWAS with New Statistical Tools | Audio |
| Paul S. Appelbaum | May 9, 2014 | Informed Consent for Return of Incidental/Secondary Findings in Genomic Research | Audio |
| Israel Liberzon | June 13, 2014 | Childhood Poverty and Emotional Regulation | Audio |
| Prof Sir Robin M. Murray | Sept. 12, 2014 | Deviant development, dysregulated dopamine and drug-induced psychoses - what schizophrenia genetics has to explain | |
| Robert Yolken | Dec. 12, 2014 | Gene-Environmental Interactions in Human Psychiatric Disorders and Cognition |
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niamh Mullins, Anna Docherty, Allison Ashley-Koch, and Douglas Ruderfer | June 10, 2022 | The Suicide Working Group of the PGC | View |
| Humberto Nicolini, Paola Giusti-Rodriguez, Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, Marcos Santoro | Sept., 7, 2022 | Psychiatric genetics in Latin America: research, opportunities, and challenges | View |
| Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Steven Gazal, and Patrick Sullivan | Nov., 10, 2022 | Leveraging Base Pair Mammalian Constraint to Understand Genetic Variation and Human Disease. | View |
2017 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerome Breen | Feb 10, 2017 | Translating psychiatric genetics: can we do it? The PGC Pathways to Drug aim | View |
| Stephan Sanders | Mar 10, 2017 | Loci discovery with exome and genome data in ASD | View |
| James Walters | May 12, 2017 | Novel Insights from Schizophrenia GWAS meta-analysis of CLOZUK and PGC | View |
| Jens Hjerling-Leffler and Patrick Sullivan | June 9, 2017 | Genetic identification of brain cell types underlying schizophrenia | |
| Eric Nestler | Sept 8, 2017 | Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression | View |
| Charles Gersbach | Dec 8, 2017 | CRISPR-based Epigenome Editing for Functional Epigenomics | View |
2013 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
2020 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter(s) | Date | Presentation | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Gelernter, Hang Zhou, Emma Johnson, Renato Polimanti, and Howard Edenberg | Jan 24, 2020 | Investigating different types of Substance Use Disorder | View |
| Andrew McIntosh, Laura Ajram, Karoline Kuchenbaeker, Jerry Guintivano, Mark Adams, and Oliver Pain | Feb 14, 2020 | An update from the PGC Major Depressive Disorder Working Group | View |
| Mark Adams and Gerome Breen | Mar 6, 2020 | R Markdown to Properly document analyses + using GitHub | View |
| Patrick Sullivan, Samantha Meltzer-Brody, Karestan Koenen, and Karmel Choi | Apr 10, 2020 | Work, life, science, and careers in the COVID-19 pandemic: keeping it going | View |
| Patrick Sullivan, Andrew McIntosh, Thalia Ely, Cathryn Lewis, and Anita Thapar | Apr 17, 2020 | Panel Discussion regarding COVID-19 and addressing important questions asked from participants. | View |
| Barbara Franke, Tetyana Zayats, and Ditte Demontis | Apr 24, 2020 | Attention Deficit Hyper-Active Disorder | View |
| Patrick Sullivan, Cynthia Bulik, Cathryn Lewis, and Sarah Medland | May 8, 2020 | Panel Discussing the Results of COVID-19 Survey | View |
| Lea Davis, Jordan Smoller, and Julia Sealock | May 22, 2020 | The PsycheMERGE network: Advancing precision psychiatry through genomic approaches to electronic health records | View |
| Barbara Franke, Sarah Medland, and Rachel Brouwer | May 29, 2020 | Work Updates from ENIMGA | |
| Ole Andreassen, Niamh Mullins, and Kevin O’Connell | June 12, 2020 | Update from the PGC Bipolar Disorder Working Group | View |
| Hailiang Huang, Ryan Longchamps, and Yunfeng Ruan | June 19, 2020 | Statistical Genetics Methods Leveraging Genomic Diversity | View |
| Andrew McIntosh, Cathryn Lewis, Kimberley Kendal, Karmel Choi, Lu Yi, Evelien Van Assche, Jurjen Luykx, Eva Schulte, Till Andlauer | June 26, 2020 | Introduction to Major Depression and the PGC MDD group | View |
| David Ledbetter | Sep 25, 2020 | Making the Case for Diagnostic Genetic Testing of Adults with Neuropsychiatric Disorders | View |
| Jonathan Sebat and Marieke Klein | Nov 13, 2020 | Analysis of genomic copy number variants across psychiatric disorders | View |
| Renato Polimanti | Dec 4, 2020 | Causal Inference Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities | View |
2016 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
2012 Worldwide Lab Meeting Archive
| Presenter | Date | Title and PowerPoint Slides | Recordings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Sebat | Nov 9, 2012 | CNV meta-analysis in the PGC-schizophrenia dataset | Audio |
| Patrick Sullivan | Dec 14, 2012 | Pros and Cons of Minimal Phenotyping in Psychiatric Genetics | Audio |