Cindy Kalita and Austin Wang will be presenting their new methods leveraging allelic imbalance to identify novel regulatory variants at the RECOMB/ISCB conference in New York City in November.

Cindy will present “A powerful method to estimate cell-type specific QTLs from bulk expression by leveraging allelic imbalance” on 11/6 at 3:00pm.

Austin will present “Allele-Specific QTL Fine-Mapping with PLASMA” on 11/6 at 4:15pm. Austin’s talk was recently awarded the Roger Williams Award for outstanding oral presentation at IGES. See the pre-print Wang et al. biorxiv.