Spatially resolved mapping of cells associated with human complex traits

Liyang Song, PhD student, Westlake University This is an online event held via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85114748391 Depicting spatial distributions of disease-relevant cells is crucial for understanding disease pathology. In our recent work, we developed a method, gsMap, that integrates spatial transcriptomics (ST) data with genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics to map cells to human complex traits, including […]

Vitessce framework for interactive visualization of single-cell data and its applications

Mark Keller, PhD student in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics program at Harvard Medical School This is an online event held via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85114748391 We introduce Vitessce to address the need for a scalable, interactive, and extensible framework that supports visualization of spatial and multimodal single-cell data. Its modular architecture, compatibility with multiple file formats, and support […]

BANKSY unifies cell typing and tissue domain segmentation for scalable spatial omics data analysis

Statistical Bioinformatics SeminarDr Vipul Singhal, Head of Computational Biology, Integrated Biosciences, Inc A core property of solid tissue is the spatial arrangement of cell types into stereotypical spatial patterns. These cells can be investigated with spatial omics technologies to reveal both their omics features (transcriptomes, proteomes, etc), and their spatial coordinates. Because a cell’s state […]

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Adjusting for genetic confounders in transcriptome-wide association studies improves discovery of risk genes of complex traits

Dr Siming Zhao, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth Giesel School of Medicine This is an online event held via Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85114748391 Many methods have been developed to leverage expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data to nominate candidate genes from genome-wide association studies. These methods, including colocalization, transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) and Mendelian randomization-based methods; […]