Thoughtful discussion from Eiko Fried & Michele Nivard on the recent PGC Consortium Major Depression GWAS youtube.com/watch?v=vHvBzF…

📣 We are hiring a research fellow in psychiatric genomics to work on a Wellcome funded project looking at longitudinal data & how symptoms change over time. Come and work with us: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

We have such a fantastic lineup of talks from Dr Cathryn Lewis, Clare Turnbull- Prof/NHS Dr, Eugene Gardner, Kashyap Patel, Kate Ruth, Alex Blakes, Aimee Hanson, Samvida Venkatesh and Becca Kingdom
Places are limited and filling fast!

For those that want to learn more about research techniques in psychiatric genetics, we got you covered!

The Video Textbook contains information on GWAS, polygenic scores, and more and even provides software tutorials.

Check it out ⬇️

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This month's Research Environment Training Session will be focused on building rare disease cohorts with matching controls, held on 14 May from 1.30 - 3pm.

Register to join fellow Research Network or Discovery forum members via this link: ow.ly/PJlO50RuXVS

Sooo exciting! Not to be missed

New pre-print from the PGC Consortium #Depression Group: Multi-ancestry GWAS of depression with 685,000 cases identifies 697 independent associations, implicating known & novel drug targets.

🔗 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Join us as a postdoc to study diversity in genomics
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Are you a postdoc looking to start a new group? Talk to Michael about joining the Human Genetics groups at KCL!

Excited to welcome lots of London Genetics Network members to University of Surrey today for a sunny ☀️day filled with science & networks London Genetics Network

Less than 1% of UK professors are black (160 out of 22,855 professors in 2020/21 data).

I am incredibly delighted to share that I have accepted an offer to be a full Professor and Chair of Genomic Diversity at the prestigious Queen Mary University of London

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We are recruiting for a Director of the UCL Division of Psychiatry.

The position of Director is available from September 2024 for an initial five-year term. Deadline to apply is 21 March 2024.

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Only two weeks left to submit your abstract to EMGM 2024. If you are into statistical genetics, this is the conference to go! Stellar invited speaker lineup: MarioniGroup Matti Pirinen Rebecca Richmond Doug Speed and Gosia Borczyk

Warnings of economic damage to UK as international student numbers fall by a third theguardian.com/education/2024…

Summary stats for the multi-ancestry GWAS of depression nature.com/articles/s4158… out now - link below 👇