Title: Augmenting and interpreting genetic data using cell-type-specific networks

Place: C3-02, Sulston Building.

Time: January 9th 11-12.

We’re happy to announce that Kasper Lage joined the National Institutes of Health Accelerating Medicines Partnership in type 2 diabetes to work on cell-type-specific protein networks involved in type 2 diabetes together with Jose Florez, Chad Cowan, Mark McCarthy, Anna Gloyn and Rob Sladek.

For more information about the NIH Accelerating Medicines Partnership: click here.

For more information about Anna Gloyn: click here.

For more information about Chad Cowan: click here.

For more information about Mark McCarthy: click here.

For more information about Jose Florez: click here.

For more information about Rob Sladek: click here.

We’re delighted to announce that the Lage Lab has been awarded a three year grant from the Lundbeck Foundation to study the protein networks perturbed by genetics in psychiatric diseases. This project will enable us to strengthen our current experimental work in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute and is a collaboration with the Danish iPSYCH consortium. The grant will furthermore support training of Danish postdocs in the Lage Lab and at the Broad Institute.

For more information about the Stanley Center: See here.

For more information about the iPSYCH consortium: See here.

For more information about the Lundbeck Foundation: See here.

Today the Lage Lab published an article describing a quality controlled and scored human protein-protein interaction network to help functionally interpreting genomic data. Congratulations to Taibo Li, Heiko Horn and Kasper Lage.

Link to Nature Methods webpage: article.

Link to Broad Institute Snapshot on the article: Broad Institute Snapshot.

Link to press release from MGH: MGH press release.

For more information see here: InWeb_IM.

For more information see here: Broad Institute highlights from ASHG 2016 in Vancouver.

For more information click here.

Time: Wednesday, October 19, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM

Title: Augmenting and Interpreting Genomic Data Using Tissue- and Cell-type-specific Networks

Loctaion: Room 221, West Building, Convention Centre

11:00 AM   Cell-type-specific protein interaction networks perturbed by genetics in psychiatric diseases. K. Lage. Broad Institute / Harvard U.

11:30 AM   Transcriptome-wide networks for understanding diverse categories of genetic variation. A. Battle. Johns Hopkins University.

12:00 PM   Tissue-specific networks for integrative disease gene identification. O. Troyanskaya. Princeton University.

12:30 PM   Building multi-omic networks for type 2 diabetes and related phenotypes. M. McCarthy. Oxford University.

We are happy to welcome Anna Sappington (MIT undergraduate studying Computer Science and Molecular Biology) and Justin Lim (MIT undergraduate studying Mathematics and Computer Science) to the lab.

Anna and Justin will be working on Broadnex10 projects to map cellular network perturbed by genetics in early onset myocardial infraction and the Cancer Complex Compendium. For more information about these projects click here.

The title of his poster ‘Human brain networks perturbed by genetics and targeted by therapeutics in psychiatric disorders’

On June 23rd and 24th Kasper was invited for a two day visit to the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Conneticut where he presented his labs work.

During this time he met with the Institute’s Leadership (Edison Liu and Charles Lee) as well as with the impressive young faculty of this newly created research site.

Title of Joy’s talk: “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: Exome sequence analysis of trios”