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IGES 33rd Annual Meeting • November 3-4, 2024
Education Workshop • November 5, 2024
Denver, Colorado  USA

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Make plans to attend the 33rd Annual IGES Meeting, November 3-4 and the Education Workshop on November 5, 2024 in the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado - the state capitol aptly nicknamed "The Mile High City". This year's meeting immediately precedes to the American Society of Human Genetic annual convention. Submit your abstract today at the link above.

 

2024 registration fees (USD) are as follows:

*Students, Retirees, and Low-Middle Income countries are eligible for the reduced rate. Please review the eligible countries here. 
 

Registration fees include access to the general sessions, posters sessions, business meeting, networking receptions, and the annual awards banquet. The Education Workshop is an additional fee. 

 
Register for IGES 2024 and the Education Workshop

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Meeting Schedule

Saturday, November 2

Registration
IGES attendees staying at the Embassy Suites Hotel are encouraged to attend the hotel's complimentary evening reception from 5:00-6:30pm at the 4th Floor Elevatory Lobby. While this is not an official IGES function, it is a great opportunity to network with your colleagues!

Sunday, November 3

Session 1: President's Address and Williams Awards Finalists
Session 2: Invited Presentation by Elmear Kenny and Neel Awards Finalists
ELSI Activity: Presented by Marie-Pierre Dubé
Session 3: Invited Presentation by Hongtu Zhu and Machine Learning Platform Presentations
Poster Session 1: Highlights and Poster Presentations
Session 4: OMICs Platform Presentations
Annual Awards and Dinner with Entertainment by Ojo de Luna

Monday, November 4

Session 5: Robert Elston Award for Best Paper Presentation and Complex Traits Platform Presentations
                 Chaired by Hae Kyung Im
Session 6: Invited Presentation by Neil Hanchard and Biobanks and Diverse Populations Platform Presentations
                 Chaired by Linda Kachuri
Poster Session 2: Highlights and Poster Presentations
Session 7: Keynote Presentation by Andrea Ganna and Biobanks and Clinical Methods & Applications
Annual Business Meeting

Tuesday, November 5

Education Workshop

Session 1: High-Level Overview (Chris Gignoux, Leslie Lange, Amke Caliebe)
Presentation (PRS, ELSI considerations)

Session 2: Genetic Effects and Polygenic Weights (Chris Arehart, Iain Konigsberg)

GWAS and SNP-based heritability (training datasets, trait-specific effect sizes)
Quality control considerations (heritability, relatedness, variant-level QC)
PRS weights (ancestry considerations, LD panels, p-value thresholding, LD clumping, beta shrinkage with LASSO regression)

Hands-on tutorial: P-value thresholding approach for estimating PRS weights from GWAS data

10 minutes - Break 

Session 3: Score Calculations, Applications, and Considerations (Meng Lin, Maizy Brasher)

PRS Calculation (PRS harmonization pipeline)
Application to prediction and key considerations (evaluation metrics, confounding)
Resources for pipelines and tutorials

Hands-on tutorial

Wrap-Up: Key takeaways, feedback survey, 2025 topic survey

 

 

Important Dates for IGES 2024 are

  • June 6: General abstracts due.
  • Week of August 19: General abstracts notifications emailed.
    If you have not received your notification, please email us at iges at geneticepi.org.
  • September 30: Regular registration period ends.
  • October 1: Registration rates increase.