Presentations and Talks

1. ‣Mersha TB. The Role of Population Isolates in gene-Environment Studies: The case of Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants, “Founder Populations and their contribution to our understanding of Biology and History" conference, Haifa, Israel, July 10-14, 2016. Invited Talk.
   

2. ‣Mersha TB. Genetic determinants and racial ancestry differences in childhood asthma. Understanding the Function of Human Genome Variation, Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, Uppsala, Sweden. May 31-June 4, 2016.
   

3. ‣Mersha TB. Genomic ancestry and big data in complex traits and diseases. Biomedical Informatics seminar, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical center, Cincinnati, OH, January 29, 2016. Invited Talk.
   

4. ‣Mersha TB. Genetic ancestry and environmental risk factors in childhood asthma. Asthma Conference, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical center, Cincinnati, OH, January 25, 2016.
   

5. ‣Mersha TB. Role of genomics and environment in childhood asthma. Department of Pediatrics at Hadassah children hospital Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, December 30, 2015. Invited Talk.
   

6. ‣Mersha TB. Genomic ancestry and big data. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, December 28, 2015. Invited Talk.
   

7. ‣Rao MB, Wathen MJ, Tadesse DG, Mersha TB. 2015. Population classification based on rare variants using singular value decomposition, principal component analysis, and random forest. The American Society of Human genetics, 63rd Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD October 6-10, 2015.
   

8. ‣Mersha, TB. Role of genomics and environment in childhood asthma in African Americans. The 9th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities: The Role of Genomics in Eliminating Health Disparities, May 29-30, 2014 Fort Worth, TX. Invited Talk.
   

9. ‣Mersha, TB. Use and misuse of race information in genomic research” at the Genomics and Ethics in Research and Medical Decision-Making Conference, March 10-12, 2015, Cincinnati, OH. Invited Talk.
   

10. ‣Dan L, Ding L, Baye TM. Identification of childhood asthma sub-phenotypes using cluster analysis. University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Annual Research Workshop, August 10, 2014.
    

11. ‣Baye TM, Biagini Myers JM, Martin LJ, Rothenberg ME, Wills-Karp M, Eissa NT, Borish L, Hershey GKK. Genetic determinants and racial differences in childhood asthma. Presented at the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics/61st Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal, Canada, October 10-15, 2013.
    

12. ‣Baye TM, Ghos G, Hershey GK and Bernstein, JA. Rank-based analysis of transcriptome data reveals biologically relevant atopic dermatitis genes and pathways. The American Society of Human genetics, 63rd Annual Meeting, Boston, MA October 22-26, 2013.
    

13. ‣Baye TM, Amirisetty S and Hershey, GKK. Meta-analysis of transcriptome data using pathway-based approach reveals biologically relevant asthma genes. AAAAI 2012 Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 2-6, 2012 [selected to be presentation at a special “Featured Poster” Session].
    

14. ‣Baye TM and Wilke RA. Mapping genes that predict treatment outcome in admixed populations. Presented at the 103rd American Association Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 31-April 4. 2012.
    

15. ‣Baye TM, Amirisetty S and Hershey, GKK. Genomic Data Mining for Selecting Informative Markers for Ancestry. Complex Traits: Genomics and Computational Approaches (B5) Meeting, Beaver Run Resort, Breckenridge, Colorado, February 20 - 25, 2012.
    

16. ‣Baye TM, Kovacic MB, Biagini Myers JM, Martin LJ, Lindsey M, Patterson TL, He H, Ericksen MB, Gupta J, Tsoras AM, Lindsley A, Rothenberg ME, Wills-Karp M, Eissa NT, Borish L, Hershey, GKK. Genetic determinants and racial differences in childhood asthma. Presented at the 12th International Congress of Human Genetics/61st Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal, Canada, October 10-15, 2011.
    

17. ‣Baye TM. Genomic Data Mining for Selecting Informative Markers for Ancestry. 102nd American Association Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, April 2-6, 2011.
    

18. ‣Baye TM, Wilke RA. Geographic approaches to rare SNPs in human populations. The American Society of Human genetics, 60th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. November 2-6, 2010.
    

19. ‣Baye TM, He H, Ding L, Kurowski BG, Zhang X, Martin LJ. Population structure analysis using rare and common functional variants. 17th Genetic Analysis Workshop, Boston, MA, October 16-20, 2010.
    

20. ‣Baye TM. Why should we care about ancestry in disease genetics study? Quantitative Genomics Seminar. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Cincinnati, OH. June 25th, 2010.
    

21. ‣Martin Bienengraeber, Molly C. Pellitteri-Hahn, Tesfaye M. Baye, Zeljko J. Bosnjak, Michael Olivier. Anesthetic Preconditioning Alters the Mitochondrial Proteome.  Annual Meeting of the American Society Anesthesiologists. San Diego, CA. October 16-20, 2010.
    

22. ‣Tesfaye M. Baye, Shama P. Mirza and Michael Olivier. Global proteomic profiling analysis of human fibroblast cells in proteus syndrome. US HUPO 5th Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. February 22 - 25, 2009.
    

23. ‣Lisamarie A. Collins, Sp. Mirza, TM. Baye, L. Martin, A.K. Kissebah and M. Olivier. Proteomic and genomic analysis of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles in obese individuals. US HUPO 5th Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. February 22 - 25, 2009.
    

24. ‣Molly C. Pellitteri_Hahn, Martin Bienengraeber, Tesfaye M. Baye, Bosnjak J. Zelijiko and Michael Olivier. Changes in Mitochondrial proteome during anesthetic precondioning and ischemia. US HUPO 5th Annual Conference. San Diego, CA. February 22 - 25, 2009.
    

25. ‣Christina Runge-Samuelson, Ericka King, Tesfaye M. Baye, John Littrell, David Friedland, P. Ashley Wackym, Michael Olivier. Genetic Association Analysis of Familial Sensorineural Hearing Loss Resembling a DFNA2 Phenotype. Audiology Grand Rounds. Milwaukee, WI. January 17, 2009.
    

26. ‣Tesfaye M. Baye and Michael Olivier. A candidate gene discovery and prioritization procedure from QTL Studies. The Biology of Genome Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor. April 6-10, 2008.
    

27. ‣Gawrieh S., Tesfaye M. Baye, J. Wallace1, M. Carless, R. Komorowski, P. Nuttleman1, D. Andris1, B. Makladi, D. E. Kleiner, J. Curran, T. D. Dyer, J. Charlesworth, J. Blangero, A. Kissebah and M. Olivier. Discovery of gene networks involved in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease using genome-wide transcriptional profiling. The Liver Meeting 2008. San Francisco, CA. Oct 31-Nov 4, 2008.
    

28. ‣Collins L.A., S.P. Mirza1, T. M. Baye, L. Martin, A.H. Kissebah, M. Olivier. Proteomic analysis to identify candidate genes influencing high-density lipoprotein particle size in obese individuals. The American Society of Human genetics 58th Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. November 11-15, 2007.
    

29. ‣Baye, TM. Statistical Approaches to Gene Mapping. Medical College of Wisconsin. January 15, 2008.
    

30. ‣Tesfaye M. Baye, Yi Zhang, Edward Smith, Cecilia J. Hillard, Jennifer Gunnell, Joel Myklebust, Roland James, Ahmed H. Kissebah, Michael Olivier, and Russell A. Wilke. Genetic Variation in cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) with Obesity and Obesity-Related Traits. Great Lakes Chapter of ASPET. Chicago, IL. June 13, 2008.
    

31. ‣Martin Bienengraber, Molly Pellitteri-Hahn, Tesfaye M. Baye, and Michael Olivier. Proteomic Analysis to Determine the Effect of Volatile Anesthetics on Mitochondrial Metabolism and Bioenergetics. 11th NHLBI Proteomics Initiative Investigators Meeting. Charleston, SC. April 16-17, 2008.
    

32. ‣Tesfaye M. Baye. Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Approaches to Characterize Population Diversity and Structure. University of Texas A&M. College Station. May 28, 2008.
    

33. ‣Zhang Y., E.M. Smith, T. M. Baye, J. Gunnell, A. DelaForest, C.J. Hillard, A.H. Kissebah, M. Olivier and R.A. Wilke. Genetic Variation in Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH) is Associated with Altered Lipid Homeostasis in an Obese Cohort. Great Lakes Chapter of ASPET. Chicago, IL, June 13, 2008.
    

34. ‣Tesfaye M. Baye, H.W. Wiener, H.K. Tiwari, D.T. Redden, D.B. Allison, R.C.P.Go. Data mining and comparison of measures of informativeness for ancestry in admixture mapping. The American Society of Human genetics. 57th Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. October 23–27, 2007.