Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD
@jsdron.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ the Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and @ the Broad Institute | NHLBI K99 | 🫀 #CardioSky 🧬 #Genetics | 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸 | She/her
ORCID: 0000-0002-3045-6530
ORCID: 0000-0002-3045-6530
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Now: @jsdron.bsky.social (JD): Age- and BMI-dependent genetic architecture of blood lipids in 2.5 million individuals from globally diverse populations #ASHG25 🧪🧬🖥️
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Now: @jsdron.bsky.social (JD): Age- and BMI-dependent genetic architecture of blood lipids in 2.5 million individuals from globally diverse populations #ASHG25 🧪🧬🖥️
Can’t believe #ASHG25 is finally here! Excited to share what I’ve been working on as lead analyst for the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium 🧬👩💻
Join me at the Plenary Session on Friday, Oct 17 (5–6:30 PM) — I’ll be presenting some unpublished results from our genome-wide interaction study 👀
Join me at the Plenary Session on Friday, Oct 17 (5–6:30 PM) — I’ll be presenting some unpublished results from our genome-wide interaction study 👀
October 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can’t believe #ASHG25 is finally here! Excited to share what I’ve been working on as lead analyst for the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium 🧬👩💻
Join me at the Plenary Session on Friday, Oct 17 (5–6:30 PM) — I’ll be presenting some unpublished results from our genome-wide interaction study 👀
Join me at the Plenary Session on Friday, Oct 17 (5–6:30 PM) — I’ll be presenting some unpublished results from our genome-wide interaction study 👀
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The most math equations written on a whiteboard by a clinician I've seen - yet amazingly well delivered to a broad audience!
S. Urbut's talk @broadinstitute.org A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics youtube.com/watch?v=jcFS...
@mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
S. Urbut's talk @broadinstitute.org A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics youtube.com/watch?v=jcFS...
@mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
MPG Primer: A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics (2025)
YouTube video by Broad Institute
youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The most math equations written on a whiteboard by a clinician I've seen - yet amazingly well delivered to a broad audience!
S. Urbut's talk @broadinstitute.org A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics youtube.com/watch?v=jcFS...
@mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
S. Urbut's talk @broadinstitute.org A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics youtube.com/watch?v=jcFS...
@mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social
Reposted by Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD
Just wanted to remind folks of the upcoming abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRS on March 30! 🧬
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
2025 Human Genetics and Genomics Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Human Genetics and Genomics will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
March 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just wanted to remind folks of the upcoming abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRS on March 30! 🧬
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Just wanted to remind folks of the upcoming abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRS on March 30! 🧬
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
2025 Human Genetics and Genomics Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Human Genetics and Genomics will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
March 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just wanted to remind folks of the upcoming abstract submission deadline for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRS on March 30! 🧬
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Come join us in beautiful Portland, Maine from July 5-6!
Check out this link for more details: www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Planning your conference schedule for 2025? Don’t forget to include the GRS/GRC for Human Genetics and Genomics!
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Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRC and GRS!! 🎉 🧬
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine
@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀
Links to apply below 👇
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine
@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀
Links to apply below 👇
January 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Planning your conference schedule for 2025? Don’t forget to include the GRS/GRC for Human Genetics and Genomics!
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👇
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Terrific holiday party / “Yankee swap” 🎁🔄🎁 with @mchonig.bsky.social @zhiyu.bsky.social Fahed + @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social labs 🎅 🎄 @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social MGB Heart + @broadinstitute.org @broadinstitute.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Terrific holiday party / “Yankee swap” 🎁🔄🎁 with @mchonig.bsky.social @zhiyu.bsky.social Fahed + @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social labs 🎅 🎄 @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social MGB Heart + @broadinstitute.org @broadinstitute.bsky.social
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📣 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics Gordon Research Conference and Seminar.
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
Join us in Portland, Maine for compelling and exciting discussions related to human genetics and genomics!! 🧬
www.grc.org/human-geneti...
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
Join us in Portland, Maine for compelling and exciting discussions related to human genetics and genomics!! 🧬
www.grc.org/human-geneti...
2025 Human Genetics and Genomics (GRS) Seminar GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Seminar on Human Genetics and Genomics (GRS) will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM
📣 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics Gordon Research Conference and Seminar.
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
Join us in Portland, Maine for compelling and exciting discussions related to human genetics and genomics!! 🧬
www.grc.org/human-geneti...
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
Join us in Portland, Maine for compelling and exciting discussions related to human genetics and genomics!! 🧬
www.grc.org/human-geneti...
Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRC and GRS!! 🎉 🧬
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine
@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀
Links to apply below 👇
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine
@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀
Links to apply below 👇
December 4, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Human Genetics and Genomics GRC and GRS!! 🎉 🧬
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine
@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀
Links to apply below 👇
📅 GRS: July 5-6, 2025
📅 GRC: July 6-11, 2025
📍 Portland, Maine
@calliao.bsky.social and I are co-chairs for the GRS, with Shamil Sunyaev and @eimearekenny.bsky.social as the GRC chairs 👀
Links to apply below 👇
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Our review led by @jsdron.bsky.social of the contributions of the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (www.lipidgenetics.org) journals.lww.com/co-lipidolog...
November 30, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Our review led by @jsdron.bsky.social of the contributions of the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (www.lipidgenetics.org) journals.lww.com/co-lipidolog...
The GLGC is a global collaboration of 100s of scientists interested in lipid genetics. Check out our recent review, where we highlight 🔑 contributions from the GLGC across the last 15 years.
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#CardioSky #Genetics #Lipids #GWAS
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#CardioSky #Genetics #Lipids #GWAS
Our review led by @jsdron.bsky.social of the contributions of the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium (www.lipidgenetics.org) journals.lww.com/co-lipidolog...
December 2, 2024 at 6:23 PM
The GLGC is a global collaboration of 100s of scientists interested in lipid genetics. Check out our recent review, where we highlight 🔑 contributions from the GLGC across the last 15 years.
👇
#CardioSky #Genetics #Lipids #GWAS
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#CardioSky #Genetics #Lipids #GWAS
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The Catalog isn't just a knowledgebase and source of polygenic scores, we also provide open-soruce tools to make PGS calculation easier and more reproducible! You can find our pgsc_calc tool on github (github.com/PGScatalog/p...) with extensive documentation (pgsc-calc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
November 26, 2024 at 12:30 PM
The Catalog isn't just a knowledgebase and source of polygenic scores, we also provide open-soruce tools to make PGS calculation easier and more reproducible! You can find our pgsc_calc tool on github (github.com/PGScatalog/p...) with extensive documentation (pgsc-calc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
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Let's start with introductions! The PGS Catalog is an open database of polygenic scores and the relevant metadata required for accurate application and evaluation. Everything is on our website www.PGSCatalog.org, and our newest publication describes how far we've come: rdcu.be/d1vTG since 2019!
November 26, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Let's start with introductions! The PGS Catalog is an open database of polygenic scores and the relevant metadata required for accurate application and evaluation. Everything is on our website www.PGSCatalog.org, and our newest publication describes how far we've come: rdcu.be/d1vTG since 2019!
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🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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I’ll be speaking (virtually) at the Medical and Population Genetics Seminar @broadinstitute.org tomorrow at 9:30 AM with Dr. Jason Flannick and colleagues. If you’re at the Broad, please join us!
November 20, 2024 at 11:17 PM
I’ll be speaking (virtually) at the Medical and Population Genetics Seminar @broadinstitute.org tomorrow at 9:30 AM with Dr. Jason Flannick and colleagues. If you’re at the Broad, please join us!
Reposted by Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD
Started a list of early career folks in human genetics! 🧬
Set this up while waiting in line for a tea, so i just added a random few folks to start. Please nominate others and I’ll add throughout the day!
#genetics #genomics #humangenetics #informatics
go.bsky.app/RG1voNE
Set this up while waiting in line for a tea, so i just added a random few folks to start. Please nominate others and I’ll add throughout the day!
#genetics #genomics #humangenetics #informatics
go.bsky.app/RG1voNE
November 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Started a list of early career folks in human genetics! 🧬
Set this up while waiting in line for a tea, so i just added a random few folks to start. Please nominate others and I’ll add throughout the day!
#genetics #genomics #humangenetics #informatics
go.bsky.app/RG1voNE
Set this up while waiting in line for a tea, so i just added a random few folks to start. Please nominate others and I’ll add throughout the day!
#genetics #genomics #humangenetics #informatics
go.bsky.app/RG1voNE
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📣 Interested in "Advancing women’s heart, brain and vascular health together"? 🫀🧠
Register for the upcoming 2025 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit! April 25 - 26, 2025 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Details here ⤵️
cwhhc.ottawaheart.ca/summit
#CardioSky #MedSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky
Register for the upcoming 2025 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit! April 25 - 26, 2025 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Details here ⤵️
cwhhc.ottawaheart.ca/summit
#CardioSky #MedSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky
November 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM
📣 Interested in "Advancing women’s heart, brain and vascular health together"? 🫀🧠
Register for the upcoming 2025 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit! April 25 - 26, 2025 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Details here ⤵️
cwhhc.ottawaheart.ca/summit
#CardioSky #MedSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky
Register for the upcoming 2025 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit! April 25 - 26, 2025 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Details here ⤵️
cwhhc.ottawaheart.ca/summit
#CardioSky #MedSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky
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Updated: cardiovascular genetics starter pack… go.bsky.app/4NjCKhB #cardiogen #genechat #cardiosky #medsky #genesky
November 16, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Updated: cardiovascular genetics starter pack… go.bsky.app/4NjCKhB #cardiogen #genechat #cardiosky #medsky #genesky
On my way to my first (!?) #AHA24 🫀 @ahascience.bsky.social
I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed knowing lots of @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social lab members will be there! Check out all of the cool work our lab has been working on 👇👀
I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed knowing lots of @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social lab members will be there! Check out all of the cool work our lab has been working on 👇👀
November 15, 2024 at 3:03 PM
On my way to my first (!?) #AHA24 🫀 @ahascience.bsky.social
I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed knowing lots of @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social lab members will be there! Check out all of the cool work our lab has been working on 👇👀
I’m feeling a little less overwhelmed knowing lots of @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social lab members will be there! Check out all of the cool work our lab has been working on 👇👀
Reposted by Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD
Stop by our presentations at #AHA24 this weekend! @ahascience.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Stop by our presentations at #AHA24 this weekend! @ahascience.bsky.social
Reposted by Jacqueline S. Dron, PhD
In 2050, it is projected that 2 in 3 American adults in most states will be obese! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
National-level and state-level prevalence of overweight and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults in the USA, 1990–2021, and forecasts up to 2050
Existing policies have failed to address overweight and obesity. Without major reform,
the forecasted trends will be devastating at the individual and population level,
and the associated disease burd...
www.thelancet.com
November 14, 2024 at 11:55 PM
In 2050, it is projected that 2 in 3 American adults in most states will be obese! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...