Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD

Can’t wait to see what you and Anvita put together for 2027! 👀🤩

YouTube video by Broad Institute MPG Primer: A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics (2025)

The most math equations written on a whiteboard by a clinician I've seen - yet amazingly well delivered to a broad audience!
S. Urbut's talk @broadinstitute.org A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics youtube.com/watch?v=jcFS...
@mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

They talked a lot about “early-career” scientists in their press release. Hopefully it will be a mix of postdocs and investigators!

On their website, there is a link now to express your interest in “Canada Leads”, but it is asking about interest to be a postdoc… 🤦‍♀️

Just wanted to remind folks of the upcoming abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRS on March 30! 🧬

Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!

Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...

Just wanted to remind folks of the upcoming abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRS on March 30! 🧬

Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!

Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

PS: the White House appears to be halting trillions of dollars in federal aid starting Tuesday until agencies determine grants are consistent with Trump’s executive orders. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 12/12

Planning your conference schedule for 2025? Don’t forget to include the GRS/GRC for Human Genetics and Genomics!

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Terrific holiday party / “Yankee swap” 🎁🔄🎁 with @mchonig.bsky.social @zhiyu.bsky.social Fahed + @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social labs 🎅 🎄 @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social MGB Heart + @broadinstitute.org @broadinstitute.bsky.social

📣 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics Gordon Research Conference and Seminar.

📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025

Join us in Portland, Maine for compelling and exciting discussions related to human genetics and genomics!! 🧬

www.grc.org/human-geneti...

GRC application: www.grc.org/human-geneti...

GRS application: www.grc.org/human-geneti...

Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRC and GRS!! 🎉 🧬

📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine

@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀

Links to apply below 👇

Our review led by @jsdron.bsky.social of the contributions of the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (www.lipidgenetics.org) journals.lww.com/co-lipidolog...

The breadth and impact of the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium - PubMed The GLGC has significantly advanced the understanding of the genetic basis of lipid levels and serves as the leading resource of GWAS summary statistics for these traits. Continued collaboration will ...

PS the review will be open-access soon!
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39602359/

🌎🌍🌏 Also, to all the GLGC collaborators out there: please comment or repost to let folks know you’re part of the community! I'd love to follow more lipid genetics enthusiasts 👀

The GLGC is a global collaboration of 100s of scientists interested in lipid genetics. Check out our recent review, where we highlight 🔑 contributions from the GLGC across the last 15 years.

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#CardioSky #Genetics #Lipids #GWAS

This was such a fun review to put together 🤓

The Catalog isn't just a knowledgebase and source of polygenic scores, we also provide open-soruce tools to make PGS calculation easier and more reproducible! You can find our pgsc_calc tool on github (github.com/PGScatalog/p...) with extensive documentation (pgsc-calc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

Gif of Julie Andrews singing "Let's start at the very beginning" from Sound of Music.

Let's start with introductions! The PGS Catalog is an open database of polygenic scores and the relevant metadata required for accurate application and evaluation. Everything is on our website www.PGSCatalog.org, and our newest publication describes how far we've come: rdcu.be/d1vTG since 2019!

Awesome resource! Thanks for assembling! 😁

🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov

I’ll be speaking (virtually) at the Medical and Population Genetics Seminar @broadinstitute.org tomorrow at 9:30 AM with Dr. Jason Flannick and colleagues. If you’re at the Broad, please join us!

Started a list of early career folks in human genetics! 🧬

Set this up while waiting in line for a tea, so i just added a random few folks to start. Please nominate others and I’ll add throughout the day!

#genetics #genomics #humangenetics #informatics

go.bsky.app/RG1voNE

📣 Interested in "Advancing women’s heart, brain and vascular health together"? 🫀🧠

Register for the upcoming 2025 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit! April 25 - 26, 2025 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

Details here ⤵️
cwhhc.ottawaheart.ca/summit

#CardioSky #MedSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

Updated: cardiovascular genetics starter pack… go.bsky.app/4NjCKhB #cardiogen #genechat #cardiosky #medsky #genesky

On my way to my first (!?) #AHA24 🫀 @ahascience.bsky.social

I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed knowing lots of @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social lab members will be there! Check out all of the cool work our lab has been working on 👇👀

It's almost time for #AHA24!

Stop by our presentations at #AHA24 this weekend! @ahascience.bsky.social

National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050 Existing policies have failed to address overweight and obesity. Without major reform, the forecasted trends will be devastating at the individual and population level, and the associated disease burd...

In 2050, it is projected that 2 in 3 American adults in most states will be obese! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...