Recent Hall Lab News
We are excited to announce that the Hall Lab team will be participating in the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting 2024, where we will present three highlighted posters:
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Board 4044W: Flexibly encoded genome-wide association study identifies novel nonadditive genetic risk variants for cardiometabolic traits. This innovative study uses a flexible approach to identify novel nonadditive genetic risk variants associated with cardiometabolic traits. View details
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Board 4066W: IGEM: Novel software provides up-to-date biological knowledge for analyzing exposure-exposure interactions. We present IGEM, a software developed to provide up-to-date biological knowledge to support the analysis of exposure-exposure interactions. View details
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Board 4100W: Novel genome-exposome integration tool identifies gene-environment interactions for autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This new genome-exposome integration tool identifies gene-environment interactions for autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. View details
Hall Lab publishes paper in Frontiers in Genetics on the the interaction of childhood sexual abuse and polygenic risk score on longitudinal PTSD symptoms in collaboration with Dr. Jennie Noll. Congratulations to Hall Lab alum Kristin Passero for her work as first-author!
The Hall Lab has moved to the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine! We are thrilled to be working with Dr. Marylyn Ritchie in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics and Department of Genetics.
Congratulations to Dr. Morris Aguilar for completing his PhD! Dr. Aguilar will be returning to Penn State Hershey to finish the MD portion of his MD/PhD program.
Dr. Kristin Passero successfully defended her PhD! Dr. Passero has accepted a Senior Research Analyst position at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Congratulations to Hall Lab postdoc, Dr. Tomas González Zarzar, for starting his own lab as Assistant Professor at Universidad Mayor!
Dr. Jiayan Zhou successfully defended his PhD! Dr. Zhou will be headed to Stanford University for a postdoctoral fellowship.