Social Genomics at the University of Wisconsin

*Call for Papers* The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @UWMadison Deadline: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: @KBakulski and @Danbelsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-adv… Hosted by: @UWLaFollette and @backwugs

Trying to apply for a Re-entry supplement for someone. To get it, he cannot be hired before the supplement is submitted and he must have a eRA commons ID through USC. USC cannot give him an ID until he is hired. I don't understand how this is supposed to work...

Check out overview of some of @Q_StatGen and his lab's recent work on AI/genomics and AD/genomics news.wisc.edu/uw-madison-res…

in celebration of @FuruyaShiro successful dissertation defense, here are some quick links to his FOUR first-authored @ReadDemography papers (i.e. the Tetralogy) that contribute to demographic and social genomic literatures @backwugs and pix of us at @WisconsinUnion.

🧬Thank you to all who joined us for #TAGC2023 in-person & virtually across the past two days & 23 speakers - we look forward to seeing you all next year! @jasonmfletcher @backwugs @UWLaFollette

🍽️Thank you to all the #TAGC2023 presenters & attendees who joined us for our conference dinner tonight @CoopersTavern to discuss today's presentations and future directions in #SocialGenomics research!

🎉#TAGC2023 begins this morning with our excellent Distinguished Speaker Dorothy Farrar-Edwards presenting on @AllofUsBadgers

Final touches on the #TAGC2023 Social Genomics Conference @uwcdha --ready to welcome everyone

@jasonmfletcher on a novel genetic IV approach! #ESSGN2023

@Q_StatGen presenting a new method for polygenic GxE

🧬The Advances in Social Genomics Conference 2023 schedule is now live on our website With 23 presenters, #TAGC2023 will feature scholars from around the🌎 ➡️Interested in attending the conference virtually? There's still time to register: cdha.wisc.edu/2023/05/02/the…

Congratulations to @EnglishUW Professor Elizabeth B. Bearden, @UWLaFollette Professor @jasonmfletcher, and @uwgeoscience Professor Stephen R. Meyers, who were named 2023 @GuggFellows! #OnWisconsin news.wisc.edu/three-professo…

@Q_StatGen, @yy_stat @ZijieZhao1996 and I show that sibling relative rank shapes associations between PGS and educational attainment in @PNASNexus Implications for within-family inequalities and interpreting PGS Paper: shorturl.at/ENPST @uwcdha @UWLaFollette @backwugs

Jobs in Social Genomics at @UWMadison New, due April 7: Genetic Epidemiologist or similar working in SG: tinyurl.com/2z6ejvkw Also our ongoing listing for a methodologist in SG (due March 21) : tinyurl.com/3bfbme48 Info about our group: isg.wisc.edu

📰Check out this new article in @OnWisMag "The Truth in Our Genes" featuring CDHA affiliates @jasonmfletcher, @laurenlschmitz, @Q_StatGen, Corrine Engelman, & James Li regarding their work with @backwugs onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/the-truth-in-o…

Fertility reduces females’ extraversion and years of working, and some evidence indicates that fertility reduces both males’ and females’ lifetime number of jobs worked, from Boyan Zheng, Qiongshi Lu, and @jasonmfletcher nber.org/papers/w30955

X-Wing (led by @Jiacheng_Miao @hmguo95) is published @NatureComms. This is our approach for improving PRS performance across ancestral populations. We've updated statistical justifications throughout but key method remains unchanged #AcademicValentines nature.com/articles/s4146…

🎦 In Fall 2021, the PSC welcomed @laurenlschmitz to give a Colloquium talk on Leveraging the Genome to Evaluate the Impact of the Social Environment. Watch the full presentation here bit.ly/3PmHYoz #epigenetics #polygenicscores #genes #environment #ancestry

A real pleasure to have a double-feature of presentations today from @AltenSjoerd and @PerlineDemange before they head back to Europe. Sorry for the sub-zero temps, but we provided a warm welcome. Excellent research! isg.wisc.edu/events/

Call for papers: The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) at @UWMadison on June 8/9, 2023. submissions due March 15 no registration fee; travel funds available. support from @nia_demography cdha.wisc.edu/events/the-adv… organized by @backwugs @uwcdha