Houston Meeting 2016

Venue

HotelDerek: Houston Galleria
525 West Loop S
Houston, TX, 77027, United States of America

Agenda/Presentations

Main Meeting

• State of CHARGE -- Christopher O'Donnell 

• TOPMed: An Overview -- Vasan Ramachandran and James Wilson 

• Sequencing 10,000s of Human Genomes -- Goncalo Abecasis 

• Epigenetic Epidemiology: Challenges and Promises -- M Daniele Fallin 

• Epigenetics of Aging in the Era of Precision Medicine -- Andrea Baccarelli 

• DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: The Pregnancy and Child Epigenetics (PACE) Consortium -- Stephanie London

• Towards a Framework for Interpreting Non-Coding Variation -- Barak Cohen 

• Functional Annotation of Whole Genome Sequence Data using the WGS Annotator (WGSA) Pipeline -- Xiaoming Liu 

• Non-Coding Direct Disease Causal Candidates in Human Metabolic Disorders: Insights from the GWAS-Transcriptome Interface -- Leonard Lipovich

• Large-Scale Exome Chip Association Analysis Identifies Novel Type 2 Diabetes Susceptiblity Loci and Highlights Candidate Effector Genes -- Andrew Morris

• From Cohort to Cure: Machine Learning with Life Science Data -- Johnathan Bingham

• At-Scale Structural Variation for Disease Cohorts  -- William Salerno 

• Working in the CHARGE Analysis Commons: Design and Implementation --  Jennifer Brody

• Pharmacogenomics Study of Thiazide Diuretics and QT Interval in Multi-Ethnic Populations  -- Amanda Seyerle 

• Gene-Smoking Interactions in Multi-Ethnic Cohorts Identifies Novel Loci for Hight-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol  -- Amy Bentley 

• Integrating Human and Fly Genetics to Understand Alzheimer's Disease Susceptibility  -- Joshua Shulman 

• Validation of Genetic Associations with Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease via Genome Editing  -- Kirin Musunuru

• A Translational Research Model for Clinical Studies of the Human Microbiome  -- Josephe Petrosino

• Biological and Clinical Insights from Exome Array Analysis of Lipids in >300,000 Individuals  -- Gina Peloso

• Genetically Driven Hyperglycemia Increase Risk of Coronary Artery Disease Separately from Type 2 Diabetes --  Jordi Merino 

Tiger Awards

Golden Tiger Awards were presented on Wednesday at the close of the main session.

• Outstanding Poster: James Floyd and Seung-Hoan Choi

• Exceptional CHARGE Contribution: Leonard Lipovich and Chunyu Liu

• Early Career Achievement: Andrew Johnson and Paul Auer 

• Working Group Leadership: Caroline Fox and Santhi Ganesh

• Hall of Fame: Bruce M. Psaty and Albert Hofman