selected talks
Invited Lecture: Assessing causality: an introduction into Mendelian randomization, Białystok Summer School of the Epidemiology 2025, October 2025, Bialystok, Poland
DNA methylation in ABCG1 mediates an effect of lipoproteins on atherosclerotic markers, 20. Jahrestagung DGEpi, September 2025, Münster, Germany
Invited talk: Genetic analyses of thyroid function and disease – what do they tell us?, International Cooperation Conference on Immunity, Traditional Medicine and Precision Medicine for Serious Chronic Diseases, August 2025, Yantai, China
Introduction to Mendelian Randomization and its applications, Guest lecture for course MSc Epidemiology: Special topics in genetics: Causal inference, February 2025, LMU Munich/Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Unraveling the Genetic Landscape of Hypothyroidism: Insights from a Multi-Ancestry GWAS Meta-Analysis, European Thyroid Association Conference, September 2024, Athens, Greece
Invited Lecture on topic Heterogeneity of Endocrine Diseases, DDEA Summer School on Diabetes, Metabolism & Classical Endocrinology for PhD Students, August 2024, Ebberup, Denmark
Multi-trait analysis characterizes the genetics of thyroid function and identifies causal associations with clinical implications, 12th Workshop of Genetic Epidemiology: Omics – Novel Views and Aspects, July 2024, Grainau, Germany
Genetics of thyroid function and disease, Workshop: The current state of research in hypo- and hyperthyroidism in Denmark, May 2024, Roskilde University, Denmark
Omics data in population cohorts: what can we do and what needs to be considered? Conference: Towards Comprehensive Population Studies II, December 2023, Bialystok, Poland
Workshop: Genetic analysis in population studies, December 2023, Medical University Bialystok, Poland
Workshop: Introduction to Genome-Wide Association Studies, 68. GMDS-Jahrestagung, September 2023, Heilbronn, Germany
Epigenome-wide association study reveals CpG sites associated with thyroid function and regulatory effects on KLF9, 14th International Congress of Human Genetics, February 2023, Cape Town, South Africa
Invited talk: Genome-wide analyses identify SLC17A4 as a thyroid hormone transporter, Transporttage 2021, September 2021, Greifswald, Germany
Multiple lectures at the Summer School 2021: Genetic Epidemiology of Kidney Function and Chronic Kidney Disease, July 2021, EURAC Bolzano, Italy
Introduction to Mendelian Randomization, Guest lecture for course MSc Epidemiology: Specialization Genetic Epidemiology, March 2021, LMU Munich, Germany
Modern approach to epidemiology: Using genome-wide association studies for unraveling disease susceptibility loci applied on an ECG phenotype, Invited lecture, November 2019, Medical University Bialystok, Poland
Trans-ethnic genome-wide association meta-analyses and fine-mapping elucidate novel pathways influencing albuminuria, Ninth Workshop of Genetic Epidemiology (Medical University Innsbruck), April 2019, Grainau, Germany
Large-scale genomic studies: what they have taught us, 55th ERA-EDTA congress, May 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark
Beyond genetics: using GWAS results for advanced analyses. Conference: Towards Comprehensive Population Studies – Bialystok PLUS, April 2018, Bialystok, Poland
Mendelian randomization: vitamin D and kidney function, Berlin Epidemiological Methods Colloquium (BEMC), October 2017, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Method for a semi-automated low level quality control of a large number of Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChips, Seventh Workshop of Genetic Epidemiology (Hannover Medical School / University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein): Shaping Big Data in Precision Medicine and Epidemiology, April 2017, Grainau, Germany
Using Mendelian randomization to assess causality between vitamin D levels and kidney function, Seventh Workshop of Genetic Epidemiology (Hannover Medical School / University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein): Shaping Big Data in Precision Medicine and Epidemiology, April 2017, Grainau, Germany
Introduction to Imaging Genetics: Imputation & Meta-analysis, 22nd Annual Meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), June 2016, Geneva, Switzerland
Genetic Epidemiology in the SHIP Study – an Overview and Technical Challenges, May 2016, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
On the Tip of Omics, Grainau, Germany: A genome-wide meta-analysis of hyper- and hypothyroidism and thyroid function, Sixth Workshop of Genetic Epidemiology (HelmholtzZentrum münchen): On the Tip of Omics, April 2016, Grainau, Germany
Genome-wide association studies identify RAB38 and HS6ST1 associated with albuminuria in diabetes, Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), October 2015, Baltimore, USA
Methods for meta-analyzing gene expression probes of different array systems on the example of lipid traits, Fourth Workshop of Genetic Epidemiology: Omics – a magic wor(l)d, May 2014, HelmholtzZentrum münchen / Innsbruck Medical University
Novel Loci of Kidney Function: the CKDGen Consortium, CHARGE investigator meeting, January 2014, Los Angeles, USA
Moderation of the Transcriptomic Discussion Panel, Allergy School on the Place of Omics in the Diagnostic Lab – Update on A&CI Laboratory Methods, Oktober 2013, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)
A GWAS meta-analysis of circulating levels of IGF-I and IGFBP-3, Dritter Workshop zur Genetischen Epidemiologie: Genetic Variants, Omics, and Individualized Prevention, April 2013, HelmholtzZentrum münchen
A GWAS of structural thyroid parameters (size and goiter), 8. Frühjahrsakademie der Gesellschaft für Genetik: Genetic epidemiology, status quo – where to go, April 2010, HelmholtzZentrum münchen
Genome-wide Association studies using the SHIP cohort, International Workshop: Genome-wide Association Studies, November 2008, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
A genome-wide association study to detect susceptibility loci for aggressive periodontitis using pooled DNA samples, International Conference: Target identification and target validation in tumour research, Juni 2008, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald