[BIC-announce] Fwd: Expression-based Polygenic Risk Score Workshop, Nov. 3, 2020

[Patrick Bermudez]

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From: Joanne Clark <joanne.clark at mcgill.ca>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 09:34
Subject: RE: Expression-based Polygenic Risk Score Workshop, Nov. 3, 2020


Don’t miss this great upcoming workshop on expression-based
Polygenetic Risk Scores (ePRS).  McGill’s Quantitative Life Sciences
(QLS) PHD program, the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience
and Medicine (CAMBAM), the McGill initiative in Computational Medicine
(MiCM), and the Ludmer Center for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health
have joined forces to offer weekly interdisciplinary seminars.  The
tutorial was developed in collaboration with the Canadian Open
Neuroscience Platform (CONP).

Who should attend: Researchers and trainees who plan to or are
considering applying Polygenetic Risk Scores (PRS) to their data and
want to learn more about a novel, biologically-informed method for
assessing expression-based Polygenetic Risk Scores (ePRS). This
multimodal ePRS approach moves beyond the analysis of single genes,
found in classical PRS methods, to enable researchers to associate a
gene network with behavioural and brain imaging phenotypes.

--- Expression-based Polygenic Risk Score Workshop ---

3rd of November 2020 — 12:00 to 2:30 PM

o    12:00-1:00 PM:  Method Lecture: Deriving biologically-informed,
expression-based Polygenic Risk Scores (ePRS)
o    1:00-1:15 PM: Break to get your lunch and a coffee
o    1:15-1:30 PM Lunch session: Introduction to CONP resources, where
you can download the ePRS-5HTT, and other open-source tools and
open-science datasets.
o    1:30-2:30 PM, ePRS-5-HTT tutorial: What is a
brain-region-specific expression-based polygenic score? Calculating
the amygdala-based 5HTT ePRS in your data.

Register via EventBrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/expression-based-polygenic-risk-score-eprs-workshop-tickets-124861188175

Guest Speaker: Patricia Pelufo Silveira MD, MSc, PhD is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, leads
the Environmental Adversity, Neurodevelopment and Mental Health
theme-based group at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute,
and is the Scientific Director (Int) of the Genomic & Epigenetics
Pillar at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health.

Help us let others know; share his email and poster, or one of the
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·         Main Event page:
http://ludmercentre.ca/events/workshop-expression-based-polygenic-risk-scores
·         Tickets via Eventbrite – include advert:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/expression-based-polygenic-risk-score-eprs-workshop-tickets-124861188175


Joanne Clark, Ludmer Centre
Cell # +1 514 265 3408 | E joanne.clark at mcgill.ca
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