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MAY 11 - 12 2016

Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series 2016

This event is now apart of the Genetics Week Virtual Event Series. 

The LabRoots 4th Annual Event in the Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series was a wonderful event for research scientists, post docs, principal investigators, lab directors and other genetics professionals to learn about recent advances in genetics research. This year's conference highlighted some fabulous presentations from Robert Green, Amalio Telenti, David Bentley, Alexander Wait Zaranek and many more.

Watch this video to learn about some of the featured speakers.

This virtual conference is now On Demand and allows you to participate in a global setting with no travel or cost to you. You can participate in exactly those parts which you are interested in and be back at your desk or bench in an instant. Virtual events remove time and place restrictions and ensure that everyone who wants to participate can do so. This virtual conference also offers increased reach for the global genetics community with a high degree of interaction through live-streaming video and chat sessions.

Genetics plays a crucial role in the constantly growing and challenging fields of diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders, infectious diseases and acquired diseases. This conference will focus on "Biology to the Clinic", and will highlight the topics below.

Innovations in Genomic Tools and Technologies

Genome Editing; Synthetic Biology; Methods and Technologies for Multi-Center Genetics Platforms and Research; and Moving Beyond GWAS with Functional Approaches


-Omics in Health and Disease

Single Cell Genomics; Metabolism, Mitochondria and Microbiomes; and Systems Approach to -Omics


Clinical Utility of the Newest Technologies

Radiomics/Radiogenomics; Clinical Quality Variant Annotation and Databasing; Reimbursement Issues in Clinical Molecular Diagnostics; Data Knowledge and Integration to Medicine; and Methods for Network Inference

 

Genomics in the Clinic
From Tumor Mutation Profile to Clinical Trials; Nucleic Acid Therapeutics; and Precision Medicine (including Noninvasive Pre-Symptomatic Disease Detection; Individualized Vaccines; Genotype-Phenotype Warehousing: Technologies for Large-Scale Analyses; Pediatric Genetics and Genomics; and Liquid Biopsy, Exosomes, Circulating DNA and Tumor Cells)


Genetics and Genomics conference participants benefit from interacting with field experts and networking with colleagues. Attendees can also “walk” through the virtual exhibit hall to learn about the latest in genetics and genomics tools and assays. Join LabRoots in leading progress toward understanding the genetics behind disease and treatment.

Continuing Education
By participating in this virtual event and watching webcast presentations, you can earn Free CEU, CE, and/or CME credits. To earn educational credits, you must view an entire presentation. Following the presentation you must click on the educational credit link provided for that particular speaker and follow the required process. Once you have completed the process, you will receive a certificate for the educational credit. The American Board of Genetic Counseling, certifies genetic counselors and accredits genetic counseling training programs. The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) is the professional membership association for the genetic counseling profession.

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Speakers
  • Robert C. Green, MD, MPH

    Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School, Director, Genomes2People Research Program / Preventive Genomics Clinic / Population Precision Health at Ariadne Labs, Mass General Brigham, and Broad Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David R Bentley, DPhil, FMedSci

    Vice President & Chief Scientist, Illumina Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alexander Wait Zaranek, PhD

    Director, Informatics, Harvard Personal Genome Project, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Curoverse
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Frederick Dewey, MD

    Head of Translational Genetics, Regeneron Genetics Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Amalio Telenti MD, PhD

    Head of Genomics, Human Longevity, Inc., Research Scientist, J Craig Venter Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Weida Tong, PhD

    Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), FDA
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hugo Aerts, PhD

    Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program, Associate Professor, Harvard University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Aaron Black

    Director, Informatics, Inova Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rong Chen, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Genome Informatics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mou
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mick Correll

    Chief Executive Officer, Genospace
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Emily Farrow, PhD, CGC

    Director of Laboratory Operations, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonas Korlach, PhD

    Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marieke Kuijjer, PhD

    Research Fellow, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Amy L McGuire, JD, PhD

    Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sarah S Murray, PhD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Genomic Technologies, Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Diego
    BIOGRAPHY
  • John Platig, PhD

    Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ioannis (Jiannis) Ragoussis, PhD

    Head of Genome Sciences, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC), Associate Professor, Human Genetics, Department of Bioengineering
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Shaywitz, MD, PhD

    Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Benjamin D Solomon, MD

    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sean Ward

    Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Synthace Ltd
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Elena Helman, PhD

    Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, Personalis, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian McNally, PhD

    Senior Marketing Specialist, Canon BioMedical
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Siegfried Hauch

    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alex B Lopez, PhD, MBA

    National Applications Manager, PerkinElmer, chemagen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Keyser, MS

    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Stoddart, MBioch, DPhil

    Associate Director of Applications, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Paul Datlinger

    PhD Student, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Zsolt Rónai, MD, PhD

    Professor of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Hungary.
    BIOGRAPHY

Agenda

  • MAY 12, 2016 3:00 PM PDT

    Using big data to interpret genomes for diagnostics, therapeutics, and precision medicine

    Rong Chen, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Genome Informatics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mou
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Canon BioMedical - Revealing New Genotyping Solutions

    Brian McNally, PhD
    Senior Marketing Specialist, Canon BioMedical
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    The benefits and burdens of assaying matched normal tissue when sequencing cancer genomes

    Elena Helman, PhD
    Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, Personalis, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Implementation of genomic assays for tumor genome profiling in a clinical laboratory setting

    Sarah S Murray, PhD
    Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Genomic Technologies, Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Diego
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Learning Biology from Networks and their Structure

    John Platig, PhD
    Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Precision Medicine 2.0: Impact Requires Data, Collaboration, Champions

    David Shaywitz, MD, PhD
    Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Antha: An Operating System for Seamlessly Linking Experimental Design and Lab Automation

    Sean Ward
    Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Synthace Ltd
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Big data integration - Inferring and using individual patient network models

    Marieke Kuijjer, PhD
    Research Fellow, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 12, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    DNA methylation analysis by multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

    Paul Datlinger
    PhD Student, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote: Planet Scale Analysis with Millions of Genomes

    Alexander Wait Zaranek, PhD
    Director, Informatics, Harvard Personal Genome Project, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Curoverse
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Best Practices for cfDNA and FFPE Sample Prep to Ensure Successful Downstream Outcomes

    Alex B Lopez, PhD, MBA
    National Applications Manager, PerkinElmer, chemagen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Polymorphic miRNA binding sites in the WFS1 gene are risk factors of diabetes mellitus

    Zsolt Rónai, MD, PhD
    Professor of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Hungary.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    The molecular analysis on circulating tumor cells to determine prognostic and predictive factors in cancer research

    Siegfried Hauch
    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    The sequencing of 10,000 Human Genomes

    Amalio Telenti MD, PhD
    Head of Genomics, Human Longevity, Inc., Research Scientist, J Craig Venter Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 3:00 PM PDT

    Genomics in the Clinic - Medical Ethics and Policy

    Amy L McGuire, JD, PhD
    Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Microfluidic Single Cell Exome-seq and RNA-seq analysis of Tumor Composition

    Ioannis (Jiannis) Ragoussis, PhD
    Head of Genome Sciences, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC), Associate Professor, Human Genetics, Department of Bioengineering
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Pediatric genetics - Applications of NGS in the Clinic

    Emily Farrow, PhD, CGC
    Director of Laboratory Operations, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Precision Medicine - Moving From Pilot To Production Deployment

    Mick Correll
    Chief Executive Officer, Genospace
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Assembly and Analysis of Non-model Organism Transcriptomes Using DNASTAR Software

    Matthew Keyser, MS
    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Implementing Longitudinal Clinical/Whole Genome Research

    Benjamin D Solomon, MD
    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    The FDA's experience with emerging genomics technologies - past, present and future

    Weida Tong, PhD
    Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), FDA
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Challenges and Opportunities Building IT capabilities to support Large Scale Omics Projects in a Health System

    Aaron Black
    Director, Informatics, Inova Health
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Radiomics: The Potential of Image-Based Phenotyping for Precision Medicine

    Hugo Aerts, PhD
    Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program, Associate Professor, Harvard University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Whole Genome? The Future of High-Quality Genomes & Transcriptomes

    Jonas Korlach, PhD
    Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote: Empirical Data on the Path to Genomic Medicine

    Robert C. Green, MD, MPH
    Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School, Director, Genomes2People Research Program / Preventive Genomics Clinic / Population Precision Health at Ariadne Labs, Mass General Brigham, and Broad Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote: Genomes for Medicine

    David R Bentley, DPhil, FMedSci
    Vice President & Chief Scientist, Illumina Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Expanding the molecular toolbox for Nanopore sequencing

    David Stoddart, MBioch, DPhil
    Associate Director of Applications, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Natural Human Gene Knockouts and the Discovery of New Drug Targets

    Frederick Dewey, MD
    Head of Translational Genetics, Regeneron Genetics Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Innovations in Genomic Tools and Technologies
  • MAY 11, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Natural Human Gene Knockouts and the Discovery of New Drug Targets

    Frederick Dewey, MD
    Head of Translational Genetics, Regeneron Genetics Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote: Empirical Data on the Path to Genomic Medicine

    Robert C. Green, MD, MPH
    Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School, Director, Genomes2People Research Program / Preventive Genomics Clinic / Population Precision Health at Ariadne Labs, Mass General Brigham, and Broad Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    The sequencing of 10,000 Human Genomes

    Amalio Telenti MD, PhD
    Head of Genomics, Human Longevity, Inc., Research Scientist, J Craig Venter Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Polymorphic miRNA binding sites in the WFS1 gene are risk factors of diabetes mellitus

    Zsolt Rónai, MD, PhD
    Professor of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Hungary.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Antha: An Operating System for Seamlessly Linking Experimental Design and Lab Automation

    Sean Ward
    Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Synthace Ltd
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Industry
  • MAY 11, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Expanding the molecular toolbox for Nanopore sequencing

    David Stoddart, MBioch, DPhil
    Associate Director of Applications, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Assembly and Analysis of Non-model Organism Transcriptomes Using DNASTAR Software

    Matthew Keyser, MS
    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    The molecular analysis on circulating tumor cells to determine prognostic and predictive factors in cancer research

    Siegfried Hauch
    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Best Practices for cfDNA and FFPE Sample Prep to Ensure Successful Downstream Outcomes

    Alex B Lopez, PhD, MBA
    National Applications Manager, PerkinElmer, chemagen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    DNA methylation analysis by multiplexed reduced representation bisulfite sequencing

    Paul Datlinger
    PhD Student, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Canon BioMedical - Revealing New Genotyping Solutions

    Brian McNally, PhD
    Senior Marketing Specialist, Canon BioMedical
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    The benefits and burdens of assaying matched normal tissue when sequencing cancer genomes

    Elena Helman, PhD
    Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, Personalis, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Genomics in the Clinic
  • MAY 11, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote: Genomes for Medicine

    David R Bentley, DPhil, FMedSci
    Vice President & Chief Scientist, Illumina Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Challenges and Opportunities Building IT capabilities to support Large Scale Omics Projects in a Health System

    Aaron Black
    Director, Informatics, Inova Health
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Implementing Longitudinal Clinical/Whole Genome Research

    Benjamin D Solomon, MD
    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Pediatric genetics - Applications of NGS in the Clinic

    Emily Farrow, PhD, CGC
    Director of Laboratory Operations, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 3:00 PM PDT

    Genomics in the Clinic - Medical Ethics and Policy

    Amy L McGuire, JD, PhD
    Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Big data integration - Inferring and using individual patient network models

    Marieke Kuijjer, PhD
    Research Fellow, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 12, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Implementation of genomic assays for tumor genome profiling in a clinical laboratory setting

    Sarah S Murray, PhD
    Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Genomic Technologies, Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Diego
    BIOGRAPHY
  • -Omics in Health and Disease
  • MAY 11, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Whole Genome? The Future of High-Quality Genomes & Transcriptomes

    Jonas Korlach, PhD
    Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Microfluidic Single Cell Exome-seq and RNA-seq analysis of Tumor Composition

    Ioannis (Jiannis) Ragoussis, PhD
    Head of Genome Sciences, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC), Associate Professor, Human Genetics, Department of Bioengineering
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 12, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote: Planet Scale Analysis with Millions of Genomes

    Alexander Wait Zaranek, PhD
    Director, Informatics, Harvard Personal Genome Project, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Curoverse
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Precision Medicine 2.0: Impact Requires Data, Collaboration, Champions

    David Shaywitz, MD, PhD
    Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 3:00 PM PDT

    Using big data to interpret genomes for diagnostics, therapeutics, and precision medicine

    Rong Chen, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Genome Informatics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mou
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Clinical Utility of the Newest Technologies
  • MAY 11, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Radiomics: The Potential of Image-Based Phenotyping for Precision Medicine

    Hugo Aerts, PhD
    Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program, Associate Professor, Harvard University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 11, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    The FDA's experience with emerging genomics technologies - past, present and future

    Weida Tong, PhD
    Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), FDA
    BIOGRAPHY
    SEE ABSTRACT | Continuing Education: CEU
  • MAY 11, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Precision Medicine - Moving From Pilot To Production Deployment

    Mick Correll
    Chief Executive Officer, Genospace
    BIOGRAPHY
  • MAY 12, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Learning Biology from Networks and their Structure

    John Platig, PhD
    Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY

Speakers


  • Robert C. Green, MD, MPH

    Robert C. Green, MD, MPH

    Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Harvard Medical School, Director, Genomes2People Research Program / Preventive Genomics Clinic / Population Precision Health at Ariadne Labs, Mass General Brigham, and Broad Institute

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David R Bentley, DPhil, FMedSci

    David R Bentley, DPhil, FMedSci

    Vice President & Chief Scientist, Illumina Inc.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alexander Wait Zaranek, PhD

    Alexander Wait Zaranek, PhD

    Director, Informatics, Harvard Personal Genome Project, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Curoverse

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Frederick Dewey, MD

    Frederick Dewey, MD

    Head of Translational Genetics, Regeneron Genetics Center

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Amalio Telenti MD, PhD

    Amalio Telenti MD, PhD

    Head of Genomics, Human Longevity, Inc., Research Scientist, J Craig Venter Institute

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Weida Tong, PhD

    Weida Tong, PhD

    Director, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), FDA

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hugo Aerts, PhD

    Hugo Aerts, PhD

    Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program, Associate Professor, Harvard University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Aaron Black

    Aaron Black

    Director, Informatics, Inova Health

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rong Chen, PhD

    Rong Chen, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Director of Clinical Genome Informatics, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mou

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mick Correll

    Mick Correll

    Chief Executive Officer, Genospace

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Emily Farrow, PhD, CGC

    Emily Farrow, PhD, CGC

    Director of Laboratory Operations, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonas Korlach, PhD

    Jonas Korlach, PhD

    Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marieke Kuijjer, PhD

    Marieke Kuijjer, PhD

    Research Fellow, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Amy L McGuire, JD, PhD

    Amy L McGuire, JD, PhD

    Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Director, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sarah S Murray, PhD

    Sarah S Murray, PhD

    Professor, Department of Pathology, Director, Genomic Technologies, Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Diego

    BIOGRAPHY
  • John Platig, PhD

    John Platig, PhD

    Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ioannis (Jiannis) Ragoussis, PhD

    Ioannis (Jiannis) Ragoussis, PhD

    Head of Genome Sciences, McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC), Associate Professor, Human Genetics, Department of Bioengineering

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Shaywitz, MD, PhD

    David Shaywitz, MD, PhD

    Chief Medical Officer, DNAnexus

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Benjamin D Solomon, MD

    Benjamin D Solomon, MD

    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sean Ward

    Sean Ward

    Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Synthace Ltd

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Elena Helman, PhD

    Elena Helman, PhD

    Lead Bioinformatics Scientist, Personalis, Inc.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian McNally, PhD

    Brian McNally, PhD

    Senior Marketing Specialist, Canon BioMedical

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Siegfried Hauch

    Siegfried Hauch

    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alex B Lopez, PhD, MBA

    Alex B Lopez, PhD, MBA

    National Applications Manager, PerkinElmer, chemagen

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Keyser, MS

    Matthew Keyser, MS

    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Stoddart, MBioch, DPhil

    David Stoddart, MBioch, DPhil

    Associate Director of Applications, Oxford Nanopore Technologies

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Paul Datlinger

    Paul Datlinger

    PhD Student, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Zsolt Rónai, MD, PhD

    Zsolt Rónai, MD, PhD

    Professor of Medical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pathobiochemistry, Semmelweis University, Hungary.

    BIOGRAPHY

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Program Committee

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  • Timothy Harris

    Since June 2011, Dr. Harris has served as the Senior Vice President of Translational Medicine at Biogen Idec. Dr. Harris has served as the Director of the Advanced Technology Program at SAIC Frederick since 2007 and Chief Technology Officer for SAIC Frederick since 2008. Prior to ...

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  • Deanne Taylor

    Dr. Taylors background is in biophysics, bioinformatics, computational biology and structural biology with emphasis on human genetics and translational medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and completed a postdoctoral ...

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  • John Quackenbush

    John Quackenbush is Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Professor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. John's PhD was in Theoretical Physics but a fellowship to work ...

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  • Vincent Mauro, Ph.D.

    Dr. Mauro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He is also a co-founder and lead scientist of Promosome, a biotechnology company focused on bioproduction enablement and DNA vaccines. In addition, Dr ...

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  • C Jimmy Lin, MD, PhD, MHS

    Jimmy Lin, MD, PhD, MHS, is a 2012 TED Fellow and Founder & President of Rare Genomics Institute, the world's first platform to enable any community to leverage cutting-edge biotechnology to advance understanding of any rare disease. Partnering with 18 of the top medical ...

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  • Agnieszka Caruso

    Agnieszka is currently a Staff Scientist and Laboratory Manager at TessArae, LLC in Sterling, VA, USA. She obtained her PhD at the University of Queensland in Australia in a field of biochemistry, and subsequently worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Queen's University of Belfast ...

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