Presenter: Christopher Park Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute, New York Center for Computational Biology Talk Title: The impact of RNA-binding protein dysregulation on psychiatric disorder risk   Christopher Park is a Flatiron Research Scientist at the Flatiron Institute, a research division of the Simons Foundation. Christopher’s background is at the intersection of computational biology, human genetics … Read more

Presenter: Peng He, PhD European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Sanger Institute Talk Title: Deciphering human organogenesis principles with single-cell and spatial technologies   Dr. Peng He had his Bachelor’s in Statistics and Biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong, after which he earned his PhD in genetics at California Institute of Technology. He now holds a … Read more

Presenter: Xiaoqi Li (Yun Li Lab) Talk Title: "VAE-PRS: A deep learning based approach to compute polygenic risk score"