This talk will focus on the intersection of data science and genomics research. Have you ever wondered about the research that allows Ancestry or 23andme to tell your traits just looking at your genome? Or how we can use genetic information to advance treatments for complex conditions like diabetes, heart abnormalities, Parkinson disease, and Crohn disease? Well, that’s what Ezgi is aiming to tell us about. She will also talk about an R package (gwasurvivr) she co-developed in her lab, and why having data science skills is so crucial for biomedical research in the post-genomic era.
About the Speaker
Ezgi Karaesmen is a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. She is a genomic data scientist with cancer biology background. Currently, she works with large genomic and clinical datasets in the context of bone marrow transplants. Broadly, she is interested in associations of germline genetic variants with survival events of leukemia patients following their transplant.