BMI Annual Retreat
Every May, the BMI students and staff go on a two-day retreat at an idyllic location in New England. After a busy semester, we use this time to unwind, reconnect, and talk science!
The BIG Annual Retreat was held at the Blue Water Resort on May 17 & 18, 2024, in Provincetown, MA. The agenda included several talks from upper year students, group discussions, a key note speaker, and lots of socializing!
The BIG Annual Retreat was held at the Blue Water Resort on May 19 & 20, 2023, in South Yarmouth, MA. The agenda included several talks from students, discussions, and lots of socializing!
After a 2 year hiatus, the BIG Annual Retreat was held at the Seacrest Hotel on May 13 & 14, 2022, in Falmouth, MA. The agenda included several talks from students, discussions, and lots of socializing!
The second annual BIG retreat was held at the Warren Conference Center in Ashland, MA, on September 13 & 14, 2019. The agenda included several talks from students and faculty, discussions, and many social events.
2019 Student Talks
Yixuan He
Poly-Exposure Risk Score of Common Diseases
Masahiro Kanai
Cross-population fine-mapping of complex diseases and traits
Aparna Nathan
Multimodal single-cell analysis of 70,000 memory T cells from a Peruvian TB progression cohort
Raehoon Jeong
Why do some variants in transcription factor motifs not disrupt its binding?
Doug Yao
Quantifying genetic effects on disease mediated by assayed gene expression levels
Kate Lachance
The role of RNA degradation on mitochondrial gene expression
Alison Barton
Investigating likely-causal, coding variant associations from imputed UK Biobank exome data
The first all-BIG retreat was held at the Wylie Inn and Conference Center in Beverly, MA. The program included social events and numerous talks from students and faculty.
2018 Annual Retreat
2018 Student Talks
Jacob Luber
Discovery and Validation of a Gut Microbiome that Improves Athletic Performance
Tiffany Amariuta
IMPACT: A data aggregation strategy to infer cell-state-specific regulatory elements accurately predicts motif binding and significantly captures polygenic trait heritability
Luke O'Connor
Polygenicity of human traits is explained by negative selection
Rebeca Borges Monroy
Somatic Retrotransposition in the Aging Human Brain
Zachary Chiang
Mapping the epigenome in situ
Qingbo Wang
Landscape of multi-nucleotide variants in 125748 human exomes and 15708 genomes
