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Eimear E Kenny

Eimear E Kenny, M.Sc.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Positions:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Biology - Genetics

    The Rockefeller University (New York, NY)

    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Computer Science

    Columbia University (New York, NY)

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  • Advisors:

    Itsik Pe'er, Jan L Breslow

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Computational Biology, The Rockefeller University (New York, NY)
     
    M.Sc., Bioinformatics, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK)
     
    B.A., Biochemistry, Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Paul W Sternberg (as Visiting Student)
     
    Uttam L RajBhandary (as Visiting Student)
     
    Richard K Porter (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Computational methods for detecting genotypic variants that affect expression and disease phenotypes in human populations

    The last two years has seen the emergence of new array-based technologies that allow for high density, agnostic survey of common genetic variation across the entire genome. While the current wave of genome-wide association studies has provided an exciting proof-of-concept that these methods can implicate previously unknown loci for complex disease, we are still a long way from the full picture of genotype-phenotype correlation. The substance of my graduate thesis are two separate computationally-based projects that explore genotype-phenotype relationships. The first project addresses an information gap in the current plethora of complex disease GWAS’s by focusing the analysis of an isolated founder population from the Pacific Island of Kosrae (completed). The second project is the development of a novel method for analysis of variation and expression data with emphasis on variants with pleiotropic trans-acting effects on gene expression (future work).

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  • Other Experience:

    2007-present Member of the student representitive committee at Rockefeller

    2007-present Co-organize GWAS/NextGen Sequencing Club meetings: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~rjklein/genomegroup/

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  • Honors:

    2007-present Women & Science graduate fellow

    2005-2007 Tri-Institutional program in Computational Biology graduate fellow

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Eimear Kenny's Publications (10)



Eimear Kenny's Posters and Presentations (16)

  • Genetic genomics of Parkinson ’s disease: an association-based method for detecting modules of co-expressing genes in disease (poster)

    Kenny EE, Melchiotti R, Litvin O, Kedmi M, Bar-Shira A, Giladi N, Pe’er D, Orr-Urtreger A and Pe’er I

    American Society of Human Genetics, Honolulu, Hawaii; 10/2009
  • Genome-wide transcriptomic and genomic analysis of Ashkenazi Parkinson’s Disease patients. (poster)

    Orr-Urtreger A, Bar-Shira A, Kenny EE, Pe’er I, Giladi N and Kedmi M

    American Society of Human Genetics, Honolulu, Hawaii; 10/2009
  • Sequencing a small reference panel in an isolated population for imputation using identity-by-descent (presentation)

    Pe’er I, Shah MJ, Kenny EE, Lee C, Peckham H, Quynh D, Lowe JK, Salit J, Daly MJ, Stoffel M, Altshuler DM, Friedman JM, Breslow JL and Gusev A

    American Society of Human Genetics, Honolulu, Hawaii; 10/2009
  • A comprehensive comparison of methods for association mapping in an isolated founder population finds genomewide significant hits using mixture models (poster)

    Kenny EE, Kim M, Kang HM, Lowe JK, Salit J, Friedman JM, Breslow JL, Eskin E and Pe’er I

    Human Genome Variation, Tallinn, Estonia; 09/2009
  • A novel haplotype-based method uncovers association to recent variation (poster)

    Gusev A, Kenny EE, Lowe JK, Saxena R, Kathiresan S, Altshuler DM, Friedman JM, Breslow JL and Pe’er I

    Human Genome Variation, Tallinn, Estonia; 09/2009
  • A comprehensive genome-wide genomic and transcriptomic analysis of Parkinson’s Disease in Ashkenazim (poster)

    Orr-Urtreger A, Bar-Shira A, Kenny E, Pe’er I, Giladi N and Kedmi M

    Movement Disorder Society, Paris, France; 06/2009
  • Genome-wide association studies of 13 metabolic traits on the Pacific Island of Kosrae suggest shared genetic architecture across populations (poster)

    Lowe JK, Maller JB, Pe’er I, Neale BM, Salit J, Kenny EE, Shea JL, Burkhardt R, Ji W, Foo J-N, Lifton RP, Breslow JL, Stoffel M, Daly MJ, Altshuler DM and Friedman JM

    American Society of Human Genetics, PA; 11/2008
  • Haplotype analysis enabled the dissection of two chromosome 2 variants with major effect on plasma plant sterol levels on te Pacific Island of Kosrae (presentation)

    Eimear E Kenny, A Gusev, D Lutjohann, J Lowe, J Salit, J Maller, M Stoffel, M Daly, D Altshuler, J Friedman, I Pe'er, J Breslow and E Sehayek

    American Society of Human Genetics, Philadelphia, PA; 11/2008
  • Whole-genome Association Analysis of Lipid Traits on an Isolated Population on the Island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia (presentation)

    Eimear E Kenny, Burkhardt R, Breslow J

    Biostatistics Seminar, University of Southern California, Weekly Seminar Series, Invited talk; 11/2007
  • Whole-genome Association Analysis of Lipid Traits on an Isolated Population on the Island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia (presentation)

    Kenny EE, Burkhardt R, Breslow J

    University of California Los Angeles, Weekly Seminar Series, Invited talk; 10/2007
  • Whole-genome Association Analysis of Lipid Traits on an Isolated Population on the Island of Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia (presentation)

    Kenny E, Noel M, Breslow J

    12th annual PPG meeting, New York; 03/2007
  • Textpresso: Search Engine for Biomedical Literature (presentation)

    Kenny E, Muller HM, Sternberg PW

    6th meeting for Generic Model Organism Database, SRI, CA; 05/2005
  • Searching the Worm Literature – Textpresso makes it easy! (presentation)

    Kenny, E., Müller, H.-M., Sternberg, P.W.

    West Coast Worm Meeting, University of California Santa Barbara, CA; 08/2004
  • WormBook- An Online Review of C. elegans Biology (poster)

    Girard L., Chan J, Kenny E, Sternberg P.W. ,Stein L.D., Chalfie M.

    West Coast Worm Meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; 08/2004
  • Textpresso: an information retrieval and extraction system for biological literature (presentation)

    Kenny E, Muller HM, Sternberg PW

    Verity, Inc. Guest Speaker Series, Stanford, CA, ; 03/2004
  • Textpresso: an information retrieval and extraction system for C. elegans literature (presentation)

    Kenny E, Muller HM, Sternberg PW

    3rd Consortium meeting for Gene Ontology, Bar Harbor, MH; 09/2003

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