Abdel Abdellaoui presented his work on the impact of geographic confounding in GWAS. Abdel is affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. Sven van der Lee presented his ongoing work on polygenic prediction of longevity and challenges in meta-analysing results across contributing cohorts. Sven is affiliated at the Department of Human genetics, Section […]
Richard Karlsson Linnér presented findings from his work Genetic risk scores in life insurance underwriting. Richard has held various positions in Amsterdam at the School of Business and Economics (SBE) at the Vrije Universiteit and CNCR, and his current main position is as assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Universiteit Leiden.
Jenny van Dongen presented her work on epigenetic signatures of early genome programming. Jenny is affiliated with the Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit.
Rachel Brouwer presented her work on associations of genetic variants with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan. Rachel is affiliated with the Complex Trait Genetics lab at the Vrije Universiteit.
Sean Jurgens presented his work on analysing rare genetic variation underlying risk for atrial fibrillation. Sean is affiliated with the Experimental Cardiology Department of Amsterdam UMC and holds a second affiliation at the Broad institute in Boston, USA.
Bart Ferwerda will present his work on making a genetic map of the modern urban society of Amsterdam using the HELIUS cohort. Bart is affiliated with the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC.
Aysu Okbay presented the latest GWAS and polygenic prediction of educational attainment. Aysu is affiliated with the department of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit.
First annual meeting with a program that contains scientific talks of Amsterdam colleagues in the genetics field, interactive discussions, a consultation by NWO, and the launch of the GeNe Amsterdam website!
We will discuss the new ideas as proposed during the annual meeting and we'll have a research pitch by Sjoerd van Alten, affiliated with the Tinbergen institute and Dept. of Economics, Vrije Universiteit.
Tuesday jan 27 Felix Tropf will give a presentation (https://felix-tropf.com/). Location and time are not yet clear unfortunately, but if you like to attend send Michel Nivard an email!
Genetics Network Amsterdam 2022 poster winner Emil Uffelmann, will present his work on analyses of PRS-derived phenotypes. Emil is affiliated with the Complex Trait Genetics lab at the Vrije Universiteit. The meeting will be hybrid, live at the AMC (room PA3-101 in the Psychiatry building, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC ) and online via ZOOM.
Research meeting alert! March 8, 10.30, prof. Christel Middeldorp will present about her work on the genetics of childhood mental disorders. It will be an online meeting: https://vu-live.zoom.us/j/98375748795?pwd=ZlVGNEpqTmMwOUlkTkk1M09PZkVhUT09. Hope to see you all!