Talks and presentations

Models for diverse human genetic data
2024-07-30. Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB) Summer Seminar Series: Diversity in Math Bio. Virtual

Defining the Landscape of HLA Risk Alleles in Primary Nephrotic Syndrome and Post Kidney Transplant Recurrence
2024-06-11. HLA and KIR region genomics in immune-mediated diseases consortium (virtual). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

The presence of cryptic relatedness creates inflation in meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies
2024-04-28. The 12th RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Computational Methods in Genetics. Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Models for diverse human genetic data
2024-04-22. Princeton QCB seminar. Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Genetic association and heritability estimation in structured populations
2023-11-18. Duke Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) retreat. Holston Presbytery Camp and Retreat Center, Banner Elk, NC

Outreach activities: Duke Genomic Scholars Program
2023-10-11. NIH Centers for Excellence in Genomics Science (CEGS) Annual Meeting. Kimmel Center, New York University, New York, NY

Admixture and genetic association models for complex populations with cryptic relatedness
2023-06-21. HCHS/SOL (Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos) Genetics Special Interest Group (Virtual). Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Defining the Landscape of HLA Risk Alleles in Primary Nephrotic Syndrome and Post Kidney Transplant Recurrence
2023-06-16. HLA and KIR region genomics in immune-mediated diseases consortium (virtual). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Development of Genomic Resource Modules for a Diverse Workforce
2023-04-20. NIH Centers for Excellence in Genomics Science (CEGS) Virtual Outreach Meeting. The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

Inference of admixture model parameters from genetic covariance
2023-03-19. American Mathematical Society (AMS) 2023 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

HLA Antigens And Recurrence Of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis In Pediatric Kidney Transplantation
2022-11-03. American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week. Orlando, FL

Genetic association models for related samples and population structure
2022-08-26. BERD Core Seminar. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC

Statistical Genetics Research: Kinship, Bias, Admixture
2022-07-08. Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference 2022 (LatMath2022). Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Statistical Genetics Research: Kinship, Bias, Admixture
2022-06-11. Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG) retreat. Suite 4, Durham, NC

Defining the Landscape of HLA Risk Alleles in Primary Nephrotic Syndrome and Post Kidney Transplant Recurrence
2022-04-28. HLA and KIR region genomics in immune-mediated diseases consortium (virtual). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Statistical Genetics Research: Kinship, Bias, Admixture
2021-08-19. Orientation for MB and PhD students. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC

HLA Antigens And Recurrence Of Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis In Pediatric Kidney Transplantation.
2021-06-05. American Transplant Congress. Virtual

Defining the Landscape of HLA Risk Alleles in Primary Nephrotic Syndrome and Post Kidney Transplant Recurrence
2021-04-06. HLA and KIR region genomics in immune-mediated diseases consortium (virtual). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Statistical models and methods for human genetic data
2021-03-10. Statistics seminar. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Master’s Student Research in the Ochoa Lab
2021-02-19. Master of Biostatistics Virtual Visit Day. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC

Estimating ancestry from a population kinship matrix under arbitrary ancestral subpopulation structure
2020-10-27. American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting. Virtual

Population Kinship and Differentiation in Human Studies
2020-02-18. University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG) seminar. Room 147, Nanaline Duke building, Duke University, Durham, NC

Modeling Relatedness in Genetic Association Studies
2019-09-28. Duke Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) retreat. Holiday Inn Resort, Wrightsville Beach, NC

Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures
2019-02-04. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) seminar. French Family Science Center, Duke University, Durham, NC

Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures (lightning talk)
2019-01-11. 4th Mexico Population Genomics Meeting. Amoxcalli Complex, Faculty of Sciences, University City, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico

Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures
2018-09-27. Population Biology seminar, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC

Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures
2018-02-21. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC

Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures
2018-01-22. Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Relatedness and differentiation in arbitrary population structures
2017-11-10. Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

Measuring relatedness in human populations from DNA
2017-05-11. Princeton Research Day. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

F_ST and kinship for arbitrary population structures
2017-02-13. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

F_ST generalized for arbitrary population structures
2016-01-21. New York Area Population Genomics Workshop 2016. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Beyond the E-value: stratified statistics for protein domain prediction
2015-10-15. Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) conference. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Forget the E-value: family-based q-values for protein domain prediction, and empirical error detection
2013-04-17. Telepresentation for Yun Song's group. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Forget the E-value: q-values for domains (poster blitz)
2013-03-25. Biological sequence analysis and probabilistic models (ProbGen) conference. HHMI Janelia Farm, Ashburn, VA

Forget the E-value: family-based q-values for protein domain prediction, and empirical error detection
2013-02-25. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Domain Prediction Using Context in Plasmodium falciparum
2012-03-01. Recruiting conference. Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

La Biología Molecular
2004-08-26. Rotary Club Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juarez, CHIH, Mexico