Past Events about Genetics

As part of the yearlong 75th Anniversary celebration, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is hosting a webinar to explore key advances in genetics and genomics research.

This workshop will be a 3-day interactive event with targeted and coordinated presentations, panel discussions, and demonstrations with the following goals: 1. Foster the development of data standards for the integration and annotation of single-cell genomics data. 2. Systemize and automate the process of data to information to knowledge and develop pipelines where feasible. 3. Shed new insights on brain cell functional studies by using cell atlasing data and cell type-specific targeting tools. 4. Develop strategies with brain disease research communities to maximally leverage BICCN / BICAN data. 5. Develop a community roadmap for the analysis and annotation of single cell data.

During the annual meeting, this open session featured research progress presentations from the Genes to Mental Health Network (G2MH) investigators.

In recognition of World Bipolar Day, NIMH experts conducted a Facebook Live event on bipolar disorder in adults.

Helen A. Neville, Ph.D., will provide an overview of the psychology of the radical healing framework.

Dr. Gates is a theoretical physicist known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He presented on how looking at genetics and networks led to solving a quantum gravity problem.

The NIMH hosted a two-day workshop on advanced statistical methods and dynamic data visualizations for mental health studies.

Elise Robinson, Sc.D., discussed rare and common genetic risk factors for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the association between those risk factors and ASD heterogeneity.

This workshop aims to highlight opportunities and challenges related to integrating genomic information and dimensional phenotypes associated with psychopathology, in alignment with the mission of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative.

This workshop provided insights into the potential challenges and opportunities for gene-based therapeutic strategies for individuals with rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. It brought together a multi-disciplinary group of experts from academia, government, and industry to provide a review of the current state of science in gene-targeted therapeutics and characteristics of suitable gene/molecular targets and mechanisms amenable to gene-based therapies.

NIMH’s Genomics Team sponsored a workshop to stimulate discussions among experts to identify systematic experimental approaches to gain comprehensive insights into psychiatric disease mechanisms based on human genetic findings. This Genes to Biology (G2B) framework is envisioned as a tiered approach from broad, unbiased high-throughput screens to deep, targeted low-throughput investigations.

The NIMH Office of Genomics Research Coordination hosted a webinar to discuss core computational issues faced by geneticists and neuroscientists.

On September 19, 2017, NIMH hosted a workshop on challenges and opportunities for exploring rare genetic syndromes as models to delineate the genetic risk architecture of mental illnesses and to facilitate translation into meaningful prevention and treatments.

The NIMH Office of Genomics Research Coordination and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research led a symposium on the state of the field of neuropsychiatric genomics.

The NIMH Office of Genomics Research Coordination hosted the annual PsychENCODE Consortium (PEC) investigators’ workshop.