
🎤 Talk | Thursday, Oct 22
Matt Tudball : “Trial entry, not genetics: collider bias can create apparent PRS-modified treatment response” at 2:15 PM This will take place in the following session: “Leveraging Pharmacogenomics for Drug Trial-Level Evidence.” (Room 520ABDE, Level 5 from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM).
📍 Posters | Wednesday, Oct 21, 2:30–4:30 PM
Marie Sadler: PRIMESuspect, using human genetics to identify the drug targets most likely to succeed to market (Board 5021W)
Kelly Agnew: Centromere, an end-to-end genetics platform for drug target discovery (Board 4021W)
Sahir Bhatnagar: Genetically mapping inter-tissue signaling to prioritize human drug targets (Board 8410W)
Alec McKinlay: Out-of-sample LD fine-mapping, a benchmarking analysis for algorithm selection, reference panel evaluation, and variant prioritisation (Board 8444W)
📍 Poster | Thursday, Oct 22, 4:15–6:15 PM
Kevin Liang: MOSAIC, hypothesis-free discovery of latent molecular components from GWAS summary statistics (Board 8426T)
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Peter Kruczkiewicz joins as Software Engineer (Bioinformatics)
Peter brings over a decade of experience building bioinformatics tools and pipelines, most recently at the Public Health Agency of Canada, where he developed open-source workflows including the widely-used SISTR tool. He will focus on designing and integrating Nextflow pipelines at 5Prime.