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Genetics of cardiomyopathies by Alex Lipov

Online

Alex Lipov will present his work on exploring the complex spectrum of dominance and recessiveness in genetic cardiomyopathies. Alex is affiliated with the Experimental Cardiology Department of Amsterdam UMC. The meeting will start 10.30 sharp, online and live (including lunch!). Location AMC, room E2-166.

Genetics Community Research on prenatal testing

The next research meeting is July 5th (10.30-11.30). Speakers are Carla van El and Karuna van der Meij of Genetics Community Research of the Amsterdam UMC. Please join us for an overview of themes and some results from research into non-invasive prenatal testing! The meeting will be online via zoom (https://vu-live.zoom.us/j/98375748795?pwd=ZlVGNEpqTmMwOUlkTkk1M09PZkVhUT09).

Research meeting: Jeanne Savage

VU Amsterdam Amsterdam

The next meeting is Thursday September 7th (13:00-14:00), both at the VU (NU-3A65) and online. Jeanne Savage will present on “Rethinking the phenotype: Strategies to address genetic heterogeneity in alcohol misuse”. Jeanne is affiliated with the department of Complex Trait Genetics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Research Meeting: Anil Ori

Online

The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will be on Thursday, October 5th @13.00 via zoom.   Anil Ori will present his ongoing work on “Investigating Complex Trait Architecture at the Tails and Representation in Dutch Medical Cohorts”. Anil is working in the Genetic Epidemiology Research Group at the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC.   

Research meeting: Hilary Martin

AMC

Hilary Martin will present a talk titled “Dissecting the polygenic contribution to rare neurodevelopmental disorders”. Hilary is a Group Leader in Human Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. You can find more information about her and her research here: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/martin-hilary/ Location: Amsterdam UMC, location AMC Psychiatry building, Room PA3.102

Research Meeting: Mieke van Haelst

VU Amsterdam Amsterdam

Mieke van Haelst is a professor at the department of human genetics at the Amsterdam AMC. More information on her: Mieke van Haelst (amsterdamumc.org) Room details:Vrije Universiteit, New University building, Room NU-2B05 (hybrid)

Research Meeting: Giacomo Bignardi & Laura Wesseldijk

Online

In this research meeting, we will hear from two speakers about the "genetics of talent in the arts, a critical perspective". The speakers are: Giacomo Bignardi: Genetic effects on variability in visual aesthetic evaluations are partially shared across visual domains (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05710-4) Laura Wesseldijk: Notes from Beethoven’s genome Giacomo is affiliated with the Language & Genetics Department of the Max […]

Research meeting: Marijn Schipper

AMC

Marijn Schipper will present his work on FLAMES, a framework to prioritize causal genes from GWAS. FLAMES annotates GWAS loci with relevant data and automatically predicts a causal gene in a given GWAS locus. He will elaborate on the development and performance of this machine-learning framework. Marijn has been trained as a molecular and cellular biologist and […]

Research Meeting: Pierre Bet

Online

The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will be on Thursday, June 6th @13.00 via zoom. Pierre Bet will update us on his work in pharmacogenetics. Pierre is affiliated with the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the Amsterdam UMC.  

Mini Symposium on Epigenetics

VU Amsterdam Amsterdam

The next GENE Amsterdam research meeting on the 5th of September will be a 2-hour mini-symposium on epigenetics and will be a hybrid meeting at the VU. We will have talks by: Dr. Laurel Raffington & Dr. Yayouk Willems from the Max Planck Insititute for Human Development and Bodine Gonggrijp & Dr. Jenny van Dongen […]

Research Meeting: Titus Galama

AMC

Our next GENE Amsterdam research meeting will be on Thursday, September 26 at 13:00. This will be a hybrid meeting: in person at the Amsterdam UMC (see mail for room) on Teams (see mail for link). The speaker of this meeting will be Titus J. Galama. Titus is the director of the CESR Center for the Study of Health Inequality (CSHI), a Senior […]

Research meeting: Hans Fredrik Sunde

VU Amsterdam Amsterdam

Hans Fredrik Sunde will present a talk titled “Understanding indirect assortative mating and its intergenerational consequences”. Hans Fredrik is a postdoc at the Centre for Fertility and Health (Norwegian Institute of Public Health), where he investigates partner similarity and its consequences for social differences, mental health, and genetic methodology. He has a background in psychology […]