2023

  • Genome wide association studies and causal inference - Invited talk to School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Galway

2022

  • Using Mendelian randomisation to detect causal influences of molecular features on complex traits - Invited talk to the Broad Institute (Harvard and MIT) methods seminar series
  • The MR-Base and OpenGWAS projects - Invited talk to BenevolentAI
  • Decolonising the Bristol Medical School curriculums - Invited talk at the BILT Compassionate Conference [video]
  • Contemporary Genome Wide Association Study findings in the light of Mendelian inheritance - Invited talk at the Mendel @ 200 conference, Bristol [video]
  • Exploring the assumptions in Mendelian randomisation - Invited talk to the Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative

2021

  • Mendelian randomisation for molecular exposures - Invited talk to GSK
  • Using Mendelian randomisation to detect causal influences of molecular features on complex traits - Invited talk for Channing Network seminar series, Harvard University

2020

  • New data on Covid-19 is undermined by old statistical problems - Invited talk as part of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute data week programme [video] [eventbrite] [[slides]()]

2019

  • SEGEG meeting in Bristol 2019 - Hosted the South England Genetic Epidemiology Group meeting at the Watershed Cinema, Bristol [eventbrite]
  • Genetic architecture - Invited chair, 2019 GRC Quantitative Genetics conference, Italy
  • Genetics of DNA methylation - Plenary, Mendelian Randomization conference, Bristol
  • Advice on applying for fellowships - Invited talk, University of Bristol

2018

  • Automating Mendelian randomization - Invited talk at the SEGEG meeting, Oxford
  • Machine learning in Mendelian randomization - Invited talk at the Edinburgh Alliance in Quantitative Genetics
  • Causal inference and machine learning - Invited talk at the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, University of Oxford
  • Causal graph of the human phenome - Invited talk at UCL

2017

  • Methods in causal inference - NIA DGCG Omics Meeting, National Institute on Aging, Washington DC

2016

  • Wellcome Trust public debate on genetic data privacy - Panel member, Bristol
  • Contribution of rare variants to complex traits - Invited talk, NEGEG meeting, Manchester
  • Genetic architecture of DNA methylation levels - Invited talk, Northern Epigenetics Club, Manchester

2015

  • Inferring genetic architecture of rare variants - Invited talk, Royal Statistical Society meeting on “Hidden complexities in complex traits”, London
  • Horizontal pleiotropy in Mendelian randomization - Plenary, Mendelian Randomization conference, Bristol
  • Genetic architecture of DNA methylation levels - Plenary, Epigenomics of Common Disease 2015, Cambridge