News
Oct 2024
- Ajay Nadig gave a talk at World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) in Singapore, titled "How Much Do Rare De Novo Variants Contribute to Autism?"
Sep 2024
- The O'Connor Lab welcomed three new members:
- Ph.D. student Amber Shen
- Postdoctoral researcher Noah Connally, who will be co-advised by Elinor Karlsson
- Postdoctoral researcher Kangcheng Hou, who will be co-advised by Alkes Price
- The O'Connor Lab presented three talks at the Broad Institute Medical and Population Genetics Seminar Series:
- Ajay Nadig - Aggregate Contribution of De Novo Mutations to Autism
- Hui Li - Improved Heritability Partitioning using GraphREML
- Amber Shen - Genotype Compression Using Inferred Genealogies
Aug 2024
- Dr. Hui Li received the SSGG Student Paper award at Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) 2024 in Portland and gave a talk, titled "Improved heritability partitioning with graphREML." Congratulations Hui!
Jul 2024
- New preprint by Ajay Nadig et al.: "Transcriptome-wide characterization of genetic perturbations"
May 2024
- Ph.D. student Hui Li graduated from the Harvard School of Public Health Biostatistics program, and will remain in the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations Hui!
M.D./Ph.D. students Dr. Dan Weiner and Dr. Tushar Kamath graduated from the lab, and both are entering the MGH physician-scientist residency program. Congratulations Dan and Tushar!