Cross study analysis highlights endothelial and microglial transcriptomic components of AD risk
Currently, Dr. Logsdon works as a senior scientist at Sage Bionetworks, where he leads the bioinformatics working group and integrated network working group for the Accelerating Medicine Partnership – Alzheimer’s Disease (AMP-AD) consortium along with a lead for the bioinformatics working group within the Molecular Mechanisms of the Vascular Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease (M²OVE-AD) Consortium. He also leads the Sage team’s efforts on variant prioritization to be pushed into new mouse models of late onset Alzheimer’s disease within the context of the MODEL-AD consortium. Dr. Logsdon has made multiple contributions to the fields of statistical genetics, genome-wide association studies, systems biology, machine learning, and cancer biology through the development of new computational techniques to extract signals from high dimensional data. Specifically, he pioneered the application of approximate inference techniques for Bayesian regression models in the context of genome-wide association studies and reconstructing gene coexpression networks. Within the context of the Alzheimer Disease research he is leading efforts to construct more robust and reproducible models of interactions among genes based on transcriptomic data within the context of Alzheimer disease, along with building better community resources to accelerate the identification of novel targets within Alzheimer’s disease through the AMP-AD Knowledge portal (www.synapse.org/ampad).
Date:
2 October 2017, 11:30
Venue:
NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Venue Details:
Seminar Room, Basement
Speaker:
Dr Ben Logsdon (Sage Bionetworks)
Organising department:
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
Organiser:
Dr Caleb Webber, MRC Programme Leader (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
keely.jones@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Keely Jones (Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute)
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
FREE
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Keely Jones
