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April 20 - 22, 2021 05:30 am

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2021

LabRoots is excited to announce our 9th Annual Event in the Genetics Week Virtual Event Series held on April 20-22, 2021!

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2021 will offer a multi-day content-rich program combining stellar expertise from world-renowned keynote and featured speakers in the areas of Genetics & Genomics an expanding field of biology and human health, Molecular Diagnostics, exploring best laboratory practices and novel diagnostic applications, and Precision Medicine, spanning innovative technologies and solutions transforming healthcare and changing how patients are treated today.  

Over the three days, invited lectures, thought-provoking discussions, and posters will be presented by academia and industry experts, professionals in medical and clinical genetics, scientific leaders, and research scholars.

This year's Genetics Week Virtual Event Series includes the following tracks:

Genetics and Genomics

Advancements in Genomic Technologies

  • Genome Editing
  • Single Cell Genomics
  • Spatial Genomics

Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

  • Sex Differences in Disease
  • Epigenetics Clock

New Approaches in the Genetics of Disease

  • Improving GWAS through Functional Filtering
  • Genetic Drivers of Regulatory Networks
  • LRS to increase the solve rate of undiagnosed diseases

Long-read Sequencing

  • Structural Variation
  • Telomere-to-Telomere Genome Assemblies
  • Full-length RNA-Sequencing & Isoform Identification
  • Metagenomics (or complex populations)

 

Molecular Diagnostics

Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

  • Trends Towards Higher Complexity (PCR-NGS-single gene sequencing-panels-exome-WGS)
  • High-throughput Technologies
  • Customization and Increased Applicability of Panel Testing (respiratory infection pathogen panels)
  • CRISPR-based Diagnostics

Liquid Biopsies (Cancer Monitoring and Screening)

  • Kits and Panels
  • Companion Diagnostics

Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID-19 Testing

  • COVID-19 (Diagnostics: RT-PCR & Antigen)
  • Antibody Testing
  • Public Health and Screening
  • FDA EUA Process & Evolvement
  • Point of Care Testing

 

Precision Medicine

Therapeutics in Precision Medicine

  • Gene Therapy / Nucleic Acid Modification
  • Rare Disease / Orphan
  • Current Status of Companion and Complementary Diagnostics

Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice

  • Pharmacogenomics as a clinical tool
  • Implementation and Adoption of precision medicine in routine clinical care

The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software Tools

Our virtual conference allows you to participate in a global setting with no travel or cost to you. The event will remain open for 2 years from the date of the live event, and the webinars will be available for unlimited on-demand viewing.  This virtual conference also offers increased reach for the global microbiology community with a high degree of interaction through live-streaming video and chat sessions.

Enjoy the interactive environment via live-streaming video and chat sessions with peers, and using the Leaderboard and Gamification to move around the entire event, earning points for a chance to win one of LabRoots most popular t-shirts.


Call for Posters — Virtual poster sessions offer the opportunity to present data to a global audience via a PDF poster and video summary and discuss results with interested colleagues through email. Plan now to have your poster included in the 2021 Genetics Virtual Week. Submit your free abstract here.

Continuing Education – LabRoots is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program. By attending this event, you can earn 1 Continuing Education credit per presentation for a maximum of 50 credits. This event will also provide CEU's for Genetic Counselors and is pending approval by the NSGC.

Use #LRgenetics to follow the conversation!


Speakers
  • Suzie Alarcon, CGMBS, MB(ASCP)ᶜᴹ

    NGS Core Manager La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Eric Allen, MBA, M. Eng. Bioengineering

    Director, Bioinformatics, Illumina
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Orchid Allicock, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arthur P. Arnold, PhD

    Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lisa Barrow-Laing

    Associate Staff Field Applications Scientist/Scientific Liaison
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shawn Bauer

    Director - Content Engineering, QDI
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tracy Bedrosian, Ph.D.

    Principal investigator, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Derek Bickhart, PhD

    Research Microbiologist/Bioinformatician, US Department of Agriculture's Dairy Forage Research Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew C. Forman, PhD

    Head of Bioinformatics & Software, Yourgene Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gregory Cooper, PhD

    Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mara Couto-Rodriguez

    Director of Research and Development, Biotia, Inc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dawn DeMeo, M.D., M.P.H.

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian Dugan, M.S.

    Director, Global Product Management, Genomics QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Holly Ellis, MSc, BA

    Registered Clinical Scientist, North West Genomic Laboratory Hub (Liverpool) Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine Liverpool Women's Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Carina Emery

    Product Manager for Sample Preparation at Miltenyi Biotec
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Simon Forbes, PhD

    Head of COSMIC, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonathan Göke

    Group leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Donald Green

    Senior Field Application Specialist, Genomics and Diagnostics, Cytiva
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jiang He

    Co-founder and Director of Scientific Affairs, Vizgen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nathan Henson, MS

    Product Manager, Biospecimens and Cell Services, Discovery Life Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kyle Hondorp

    Sr. Product Manager, Thermal Cyclers & Plastics, Thermo Fisher
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Steve Horvath

    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicole Jagnandan, PhD

    Application Scientist, NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dominic John

    VP, Marketing & Clinical Product Mgmt, Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daniel L Hertz, PharmD, PhD

    Assistant Professor, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP

    Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jon M. Laurent, PhD

    Director, Pandemic Response Labs
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Glennis Logsdon, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Araks Martirosyan, Ph.D.

    Sr. Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratory of Glia Biology, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D

    Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rasika Mathias, ScD

    Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, University Director of Genomics, GeneSTAR Research program, General Internal Medicine, Miller-Coulson Family Human Aging Project Scholar...
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Richard Michelmore

    Distinguished Professor and Director, The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, Davis
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Karen Miga, PhD

    Assistant Research Scientist; UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marija Navickaitė

    Product Manager, Platinum DNA Polymerases and Phusion DNA Polymerases, Thermo Fisher
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lesley E. Northrop, PhD, FACMG

    Chief Diagnostic Officer, Everly Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rebecca Nugent, PhD

    Senior Director of BioPharma Product Strategy Twist Bioscience
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrea O'Hara, PhD

    Strategic Technical Specialist, GENEWIZ, A Brooks Life Sciences Company
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Oberholzer, PhD

    Associate Director, Product Management Infectious Disease & Microbiology, Illumina
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Cory Padilla, PhD

    Head of Scientific Affairs, Dovetail Genomics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joseph Pearson, PhD

    Global Product Manger, QIAGEN Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Beth Pitel, M.S., CG(ASCP)CM

    Assistant Professor and Senior Developer, Genomics Laboratory Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • John Platig, PhD

    Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD

    Co-Founder, President and CEO, Mirimus, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Roham Razaghi, PhD Candidate

    Department of Biomedical Engineering John Hopkins University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fairlie Reese, PhD Student

    Mortazavi lab, The University of California, Irvine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine Director of Cancer Genomics, Texas Children's Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Tobias Santl, PhD

    Formulation Manufacturing Manager, Gene Evolution Library Group
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD

    Director of Consulting Missouri Pharmacogenomics Consulting, LLC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD

    Human Genome Sequencing Centre, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Simpson, PhD

    Reader, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Donald Skifter, PhD, MBA

    Sr. Vice President, Genomics, Discovery Life Sciences
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fernando Spikli, PhD

    Professor, Feevale University, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alina Steinbach

    Product Manager for Flow Sorting at Miltenyi Biotec
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hannah Stevens, PhD

    Clinical Scientist, Genomics, North West Genomic Laboratory Hub (Liverpool)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tychele Turner, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Justin Wagner, PhD

    Computer Scientist, NIST
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Neil Winegarden, MSc

    Staff Field Application Scientist, 10X Genomics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kenny Wong, MS CGC

    Chief Product Officer, xCures
    BIOGRAPHY

Agenda

  • APR 22, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Extraction-free sensitive detection of viral RNA using direct RT-PCR chemistry

    Donald Green
    Senior Field Application Specialist, Genomics and Diagnostics, Cytiva
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Cytiva
  • APR 22, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: DPYD Testing: Pharmacogenomics in a Clinical Setting

    Precision Medicine in Clinic

    Holly Ellis, MSc, BA
    Registered Clinical Scientist, North West Genomic Labor...
    Hannah Stevens, PhD
    Clinical Scientist, Genomics, North West Genomic Labora...
  • APR 22, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Moving Precision Medicine from 'Exotic' to 'Normal'

    Precision Medicine in Clinic

    Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP
    Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 22, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Powering the precision in "precision medicine" - The role of curated data, databases and knowledge: Does a gold standard exist?

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Dominic John
    VP, Marketing & Clinical Product Mgmt, Digital Insights
    Simon Forbes, PhD
    Head of COSMIC, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, U...
    Shawn Bauer
    Director - Content Engineering, QDI
    Lisa Barrow-Laing
    Associate Staff Field Applications Scientist/Scientific...
  • An Introduction to Resources Facilitating Cancer Variant Interpretation

    The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine

    Beth Pitel, M.S., CG(ASCP)CM
    Assistant Professor and Senior Developer, Genomics Laboratory Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Efficient Implementation of DPYD Testing Using an Institutional Genetics Data Repository

    Precision Medicine in Clinic

    Daniel L Hertz, PharmD, PhD
    Assistant Professor, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Laboratory Implementation of Clinical Genomics in Children

    Precision Medicine in Clinic

    Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine Director of Cancer Genomics, Texas Children's Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Phenoconversion: The Achille's Heel of Personalized Medicine

    Precision Medicine in Clinic

    Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD
    Director of Consulting Missouri Pharmacogenomics Consulting, LLC
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Using AI and Predictive Algorithms to Help Advanced Cancer Patients Identify the Best Treatment Options

    The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine

    Kenny Wong, MS CGC
    Chief Product Officer, xCures
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Directed evolution - shrinking the haystack with tailor-made synthetic DNA
    APR 21, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    Directed evolution - shrinking the haystack with tailor-made synthetic DNA

    Dr. Tobias Santl, PhD
    Formulation Manufacturing Manager, Gene Evolution Library Group
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • APR 21, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Driving lab efficiency with PCR power

    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Kyle Hondorp
    Sr. Product Manager, Thermal Cyclers & Plastics, Thermo...
    Marija Navickaitė
    Product Manager, Platinum DNA Polymerases and Phusion D...
  • APR 21, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Supporting Biomarker Discovery One Cell at a Time - Single cell analysis solutions that drive results and insights

    Joseph Pearson, PhD
    Global Product Manger, QIAGEN Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
  • APR 21, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Next-Generation Sequencing in the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 - Testing

    Eric Allen, MBA, M. Eng. Bioengineering
    Director, Bioinformatics, Illumina
    Michael Oberholzer, PhD
    Associate Director, Product Management Infectious Disea...
  • APR 21, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: High-throughput Diagnostics and Sequencing at the Pandemic Response Lab NYC

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing

    Jon M. Laurent, PhD
    Director, Pandemic Response Labs
    BIOGRAPHY
  • A Saliva-Based RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 Detection Assay: Development and Deployment

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing

    Suzie Alarcon, CGMBS, MB(ASCP)ᶜᴹ
    NGS Core Manager La Jolla Institute for Immunology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Flex Analysis: A Safe, Integrated and Flexible Approach to Non-Invasive Aneuploidy Analysis

    Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

    Matthew C. Forman, PhD
    Head of Bioinformatics & Software, Yourgene Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • High Throughput Testing for SARS-CoV-2 and SNP Analysis for Variants of Concern

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 - Testing

    Richard Michelmore
    Distinguished Professor and Director, The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, Davis
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hybrid Capture SARS-CoV-2 NGS Assay and COVID-Dx: a robust end to end solution for viral detection and surveillance of genetic variants

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19- Testing

    Mara Couto-Rodriguez
    Director of Research and Development, Biotia, Inc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Liquid Biopsy-based Detection of Early Stage Gynecological Cancers

    Liquid Biopsies (Cancer Monitoring and Screening)

    Lesley E. Northrop, PhD, FACMG
    Chief Diagnostic Officer, Everly Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Past, Present and Future of Engineered Cell Therapy

    Past, Present and Future of Engineered Cell Therapy

    Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

    Janani Krishnamurthy, PhD
    Director Drug Development City of Hope
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Saliva - based testing for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis

    Saliva - based testing for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing

    Orchid Allicock, PhD
    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of Public Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Saliva pool testing: Fast, affordable, easy and highly accurate testing solution for returning back to school and work

    Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19- Testing

    Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD
    Co-Founder, President and CEO, Mirimus, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • The Importance of Hybrid-capture Technology to Recognize and Characterize Viral Threats

    Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

    Rebecca Nugent, PhD
    Senior Director of BioPharma Product Strategy Twist Bioscience
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 20, 2021 4:30 PM PDT

    Advancing AAV: Novel Synthesis and Sequencing Solutions for Gene Therapy Research

    Andrea O'Hara, PhD
    Strategic Technical Specialist, GENEWIZ, A Brooks Life Sciences Company
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: GENEWIZ
  • High-throughput clinical and environmental viral extraction and sequencing
    APR 20, 2021 4:30 PM PDT

    High-throughput clinical and environmental viral extraction and sequencing

    Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D
    Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Tecan
  • APR 20, 2021 3:00 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Accelerating precision oncology with matched FFPE and plasma biospecimens characterized using Discovery's SpecimenSeq™ NGS Service and QIAGEN's QIAseq Multimodal Panels

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Nathan Henson, MS
    Product Manager, Biospecimens and Cell Services, Discov...
    Donald Skifter, PhD, MBA
    Sr. Vice President, Genomics, Discovery Life Sciences
  • APR 20, 2021 1:30 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Attain successful single-cell sequencing results with the latest cell and nuclei isolation workflows

    Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec
    Carina Emery
    Product Manager for Sample Preparation at Miltenyi Biot...
    Alina Steinbach
    Product Manager for Flow Sorting at Miltenyi Biotec
  • APR 20, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    High Viability Cell Sorting for Single-Cell 3' RNA-seq & 10x Genomics Applications

    Nicole Jagnandan, PhD
    Application Scientist, NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 20, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Enhancer-Promoter Interactome Drives Neuronal Cell Differentiation and Contextualizes Alzheimer's Associated Polymorphisms

    Cory Padilla, PhD
    Head of Scientific Affairs, Dovetail Genomics
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Dovetail Genomics
  • APR 20, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: A structural variation map of 499 Han Chinese individuals using long-read sequencing data

    Long-read Sequencing

    Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD
    Human Genome Sequencing Centre, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 20, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance with a new high-throughput NGS solution

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Brian Dugan, M.S.
    Director, Global Product Management, Genomics QIAGEN
    Fernando Spikli, PhD
    Professor, Feevale University, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil
  • Application of Long-read Sequencing in Human Genetics

    Long-read Sequencing

    Tychele Turner, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: PacBio
  • Cell type-specific vulnerability to traumatic brain injury

    Advancements in Genomic Technologies

    Araks Martirosyan, Ph.D.
    Sr. Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratory of Glia Biology, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Deciphering Brain Mosaicism with Long-read Sequencing

    Long-read Sequencing

    Tracy Bedrosian, Ph.D.
    Principal investigator, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Defining Cellular Heterogeneity and Cell-Type Specific Pathogenesis in the Retina Using Single Cell RNA-Sequencing

    Advancements in Genomic Technologies

    David Simpson, PhD
    Reader, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Developing disease insights with genotype-specific regulatory networks

    New Approaches in the Genetics of Disease

    John Platig, PhD
    Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Epigenetic Aging Studies in Mammals

    Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

    Steve Horvath
    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Illuminating Biology with Spatially Resolved, Single-cell Transcriptomics

    Advancements in Genomic Technologies

    Jiang He
    Co-founder and Director of Scientific Affairs, Vizgen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell Combinatorial Long-Read RNA-seq and Single-Cell ATAC-seq in Myogenesis

    Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell Combinatorial Long-Read RNA-seq and Single-Cell ATAC-seq in Myogenesis

    Long-read Sequencing

    Fairlie Reese, PhD Student
    Mortazavi lab, The University of California, Irvine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Long-read Genome Sequencing for the Molecular Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Long-read Sequencing

    Gregory Cooper, PhD
    Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Low error rate long-reads enable the identification of long variant haplotypes in metagenome assemblies

    Long-read Sequencing

    Derek Bickhart, PhD
    Research Microbiologist/Bioinformatician, US Department of Agriculture's Dairy Forage Research Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Measurement of DNA Methylation and Nuclear Organization with Nanopore Sequencing

    Long-read Sequencing

    Roham Razaghi, PhD Candidate
    Department of Biomedical Engineering John Hopkins University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Practical Considerations and Best Practices for Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics

    Advancements in Genomic Technologies

    Neil Winegarden, MSc
    Staff Field Application Scientist, 10X Genomics
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sequencing the genome: from genotype to phenotype and a few extras in between

    New Approaches in the Genetics of Disease

    Rasika Mathias, ScD
    Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, University Director of Genomics, GeneSTAR Research program, General Internal Medicine, Miller-Coulson Family Human Aging Project Scholar...
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Sex, Gender, the Aging Lung: Epigenetic Findings in COPD

    Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

    Dawn DeMeo, M.D., M.P.H.
    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Studying Promoter and Isoform Diversity with Long-Read Transcriptome Sequencing

    Long-read Sequencing

    Jonathan Göke
    Group leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology and Structure

    Long-read Sequencing

    Karen Miga, PhD
    Assistant Research Scientist; UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz
    BIOGRAPHY
  • The Structure, Function, and Evolution of Human Chromosome 8

    Long-read Sequencing

    Glennis Logsdon, PhD
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Towards a Comprehensive Variation Benchmark for Medically-Relevant Autosomal Genes

    Long-read Sequencing

    Justin Wagner, PhD
    Computer Scientist, NIST
    BIOGRAPHY
  • X Chromosome Factors that Contribute to Sex Differences in Disease

    Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

    Arthur P. Arnold, PhD
    Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Genomics
    • Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease
    • Epigenetic Aging Studies in Mammals

      Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

      Steve Horvath
      David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
      BIOGRAPHY
    • X Chromosome Factors that Contribute to Sex Differences in Disease

      Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

      Arthur P. Arnold, PhD
      Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Sex, Gender, the Aging Lung: Epigenetic Findings in COPD

      Sex, Epigenetics, Aging, and Disease

      Dawn DeMeo, M.D., M.P.H.
      Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • New Approaches in the Genetics of Disease
    • Sequencing the genome: from genotype to phenotype and a few extras in between

      New Approaches in the Genetics of Disease

      Rasika Mathias, ScD
      Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, University Director of Genomics, GeneSTAR Research program, General Internal Medicine, Miller-Coulson Family Human Aging Project Scholar...
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Developing disease insights with genotype-specific regulatory networks

      New Approaches in the Genetics of Disease

      John Platig, PhD
      Instructor, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Long-read Sequencing
    • Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology and Structure

      Long-read Sequencing

      Karen Miga, PhD
      Assistant Research Scientist; UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Measurement of DNA Methylation and Nuclear Organization with Nanopore Sequencing

      Long-read Sequencing

      Roham Razaghi, PhD Candidate
      Department of Biomedical Engineering John Hopkins University
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Towards a Comprehensive Variation Benchmark for Medically-Relevant Autosomal Genes

      Long-read Sequencing

      Justin Wagner, PhD
      Computer Scientist, NIST
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell Combinatorial Long-Read RNA-seq and Single-Cell ATAC-seq in Myogenesis

      Integrative Analysis of Single-Cell Combinatorial Long-Read RNA-seq and Single-Cell ATAC-seq in Myogenesis

      Long-read Sequencing

      Fairlie Reese, PhD Student
      Mortazavi lab, The University of California, Irvine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Studying Promoter and Isoform Diversity with Long-Read Transcriptome Sequencing

      Long-read Sequencing

      Jonathan Göke
      Group leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Low error rate long-reads enable the identification of long variant haplotypes in metagenome assemblies

      Long-read Sequencing

      Derek Bickhart, PhD
      Research Microbiologist/Bioinformatician, US Department of Agriculture's Dairy Forage Research Center
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Deciphering Brain Mosaicism with Long-read Sequencing

      Long-read Sequencing

      Tracy Bedrosian, Ph.D.
      Principal investigator, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Long-read Genome Sequencing for the Molecular Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

      Long-read Sequencing

      Gregory Cooper, PhD
      Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Application of Long-read Sequencing in Human Genetics

      Long-read Sequencing

      Tychele Turner, Ph.D.
      Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis
      BIOGRAPHY
      Sponsored By: PacBio
    • The Structure, Function, and Evolution of Human Chromosome 8

      Long-read Sequencing

      Glennis Logsdon, PhD
      Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington
      BIOGRAPHY
    • APR 20, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: A structural variation map of 499 Han Chinese individuals using long-read sequencing data

      Long-read Sequencing

      Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD
      Human Genome Sequencing Centre, Baylor College of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Advancements in Genomic Technologies
    • Defining Cellular Heterogeneity and Cell-Type Specific Pathogenesis in the Retina Using Single Cell RNA-Sequencing

      Advancements in Genomic Technologies

      David Simpson, PhD
      Reader, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Illuminating Biology with Spatially Resolved, Single-cell Transcriptomics

      Advancements in Genomic Technologies

      Jiang He
      Co-founder and Director of Scientific Affairs, Vizgen
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Practical Considerations and Best Practices for Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics

      Advancements in Genomic Technologies

      Neil Winegarden, MSc
      Staff Field Application Scientist, 10X Genomics
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Cell type-specific vulnerability to traumatic brain injury

      Advancements in Genomic Technologies

      Araks Martirosyan, Ph.D.
      Sr. Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratory of Glia Biology, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research
      BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 20, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance with a new high-throughput NGS solution

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Brian Dugan, M.S.
    Director, Global Product Management, Genomics QIAGEN
    Fernando Spikli, PhD
    Professor, Feevale University, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil
  • APR 20, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    High Viability Cell Sorting for Single-Cell 3' RNA-seq & 10x Genomics Applications

    Nicole Jagnandan, PhD
    Application Scientist, NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 20, 2021 1:30 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Attain successful single-cell sequencing results with the latest cell and nuclei isolation workflows

    Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec
    Carina Emery
    Product Manager for Sample Preparation at Miltenyi Biot...
    Alina Steinbach
    Product Manager for Flow Sorting at Miltenyi Biotec
  • APR 20, 2021 3:00 PM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Accelerating precision oncology with matched FFPE and plasma biospecimens characterized using Discovery's SpecimenSeq™ NGS Service and QIAGEN's QIAseq Multimodal Panels

    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
    Nathan Henson, MS
    Product Manager, Biospecimens and Cell Services, Discov...
    Donald Skifter, PhD, MBA
    Sr. Vice President, Genomics, Discovery Life Sciences
  • High-throughput clinical and environmental viral extraction and sequencing
    APR 20, 2021 4:30 PM PDT

    High-throughput clinical and environmental viral extraction and sequencing

    Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D
    Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Tecan
  • Molecular Diagnostics
    • Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics
    • Flex Analysis: A Safe, Integrated and Flexible Approach to Non-Invasive Aneuploidy Analysis

      Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

      Matthew C. Forman, PhD
      Head of Bioinformatics & Software, Yourgene Health
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Past, Present and Future of Engineered Cell Therapy

      Past, Present and Future of Engineered Cell Therapy

      Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

      Janani Krishnamurthy, PhD
      Director Drug Development City of Hope
      BIOGRAPHY
    • The Importance of Hybrid-capture Technology to Recognize and Characterize Viral Threats

      Emerging Technologies and Methodologies in Molecular Diagnostics

      Rebecca Nugent, PhD
      Senior Director of BioPharma Product Strategy Twist Bioscience
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 - Testing
    • High Throughput Testing for SARS-CoV-2 and SNP Analysis for Variants of Concern

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 - Testing

      Richard Michelmore
      Distinguished Professor and Director, The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, Davis
      BIOGRAPHY
    • APR 21, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

      Panel Presentation: Next-Generation Sequencing in the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 - Testing

      Eric Allen, MBA, M. Eng. Bioengineering
      Director, Bioinformatics, Illumina
      Michael Oberholzer, PhD
      Associate Director, Product Management Infectious Disea...
    • Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19- Testing
    • Hybrid Capture SARS-CoV-2 NGS Assay and COVID-Dx: a robust end to end solution for viral detection and surveillance of genetic variants

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19- Testing

      Mara Couto-Rodriguez
      Director of Research and Development, Biotia, Inc
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Saliva pool testing: Fast, affordable, easy and highly accurate testing solution for returning back to school and work

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19- Testing

      Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD
      Co-Founder, President and CEO, Mirimus, Inc.
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Liquid Biopsies (Cancer Monitoring and Screening)
    • Liquid Biopsy-based Detection of Early Stage Gynecological Cancers

      Liquid Biopsies (Cancer Monitoring and Screening)

      Lesley E. Northrop, PhD, FACMG
      Chief Diagnostic Officer, Everly Health
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing
    • A Saliva-Based RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 Detection Assay: Development and Deployment

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing

      Suzie Alarcon, CGMBS, MB(ASCP)ᶜᴹ
      NGS Core Manager La Jolla Institute for Immunology
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Saliva - based testing for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis

      Saliva - based testing for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing

      Orchid Allicock, PhD
      Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of Public Health
      BIOGRAPHY
    • APR 21, 2021 6:00 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: High-throughput Diagnostics and Sequencing at the Pandemic Response Lab NYC

      Infectious Disease Diagnostics - COVID 19 Testing

      Jon M. Laurent, PhD
      Director, Pandemic Response Labs
      BIOGRAPHY
  • APR 21, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

    Supporting Biomarker Discovery One Cell at a Time - Single cell analysis solutions that drive results and insights

    Joseph Pearson, PhD
    Global Product Manger, QIAGEN Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: QIAGEN
  • APR 21, 2021 10:30 AM PDT

    Panel Presentation: Driving lab efficiency with PCR power

    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Kyle Hondorp
    Sr. Product Manager, Thermal Cyclers & Plastics, Thermo...
    Marija Navickaitė
    Product Manager, Platinum DNA Polymerases and Phusion D...
  • Directed evolution - shrinking the haystack with tailor-made synthetic DNA
    APR 21, 2021 12:00 PM PDT

    Directed evolution - shrinking the haystack with tailor-made synthetic DNA

    Dr. Tobias Santl, PhD
    Formulation Manufacturing Manager, Gene Evolution Library Group
    BIOGRAPHY
    Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • Precision Medicine
    • Precision Medicine in Clinic
    • Laboratory Implementation of Clinical Genomics in Children

      Precision Medicine in Clinic

      Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD
      Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine Director of Cancer Genomics, Texas Children's Hospital
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Efficient Implementation of DPYD Testing Using an Institutional Genetics Data Repository

      Precision Medicine in Clinic

      Daniel L Hertz, PharmD, PhD
      Assistant Professor, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Phenoconversion: The Achille's Heel of Personalized Medicine

      Precision Medicine in Clinic

      Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD
      Director of Consulting Missouri Pharmacogenomics Consulting, LLC
      BIOGRAPHY
    • APR 22, 2021 7:30 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: Moving Precision Medicine from 'Exotic' to 'Normal'

      Precision Medicine in Clinic

      Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP
      Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • APR 22, 2021 9:00 AM PDT

      Panel Presentation: DPYD Testing: Pharmacogenomics in a Clinical Setting

      Precision Medicine in Clinic

      Holly Ellis, MSc, BA
      Registered Clinical Scientist, North West Genomic Labor...
      Hannah Stevens, PhD
      Clinical Scientist, Genomics, North West Genomic Labora...
    • The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine
    • Using AI and Predictive Algorithms to Help Advanced Cancer Patients Identify the Best Treatment Options

      The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine

      Kenny Wong, MS CGC
      Chief Product Officer, xCures
      BIOGRAPHY
    • An Introduction to Resources Facilitating Cancer Variant Interpretation

      The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine

      Beth Pitel, M.S., CG(ASCP)CM
      Assistant Professor and Senior Developer, Genomics Laboratory Mayo Clinic
      BIOGRAPHY

Speakers


  • Suzie Alarcon, CGMBS, MB(ASCP)ᶜᴹ

    Suzie Alarcon, CGMBS, MB(ASCP)ᶜᴹ

    NGS Core Manager La Jolla Institute for Immunology

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Eric Allen, MBA, M. Eng. Bioengineering

    Eric Allen, MBA, M. Eng. Bioengineering

    Director, Bioinformatics, Illumina

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Orchid Allicock, PhD

    Orchid Allicock, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of Public Health

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Arthur P. Arnold, PhD

    Arthur P. Arnold, PhD

    Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lisa Barrow-Laing

    Lisa Barrow-Laing

    Associate Staff Field Applications Scientist/Scientific Liaison

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shawn Bauer

    Shawn Bauer

    Director - Content Engineering, QDI

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tracy Bedrosian, Ph.D.

    Tracy Bedrosian, Ph.D.

    Principal investigator, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Derek Bickhart, PhD

    Derek Bickhart, PhD

    Research Microbiologist/Bioinformatician, US Department of Agriculture's Dairy Forage Research Center

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew C. Forman, PhD

    Matthew C. Forman, PhD

    Head of Bioinformatics & Software, Yourgene Health

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gregory Cooper, PhD

    Gregory Cooper, PhD

    Faculty Investigator, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mara Couto-Rodriguez

    Mara Couto-Rodriguez

    Director of Research and Development, Biotia, Inc

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dawn DeMeo, M.D., M.P.H.

    Dawn DeMeo, M.D., M.P.H.

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian Dugan, M.S.

    Brian Dugan, M.S.

    Director, Global Product Management, Genomics QIAGEN

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Holly Ellis, MSc, BA

    Holly Ellis, MSc, BA

    Registered Clinical Scientist, North West Genomic Laboratory Hub (Liverpool) Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine Liverpool Women's Hospital

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Carina Emery

    Carina Emery

    Product Manager for Sample Preparation at Miltenyi Biotec

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Simon Forbes, PhD

    Simon Forbes, PhD

    Head of COSMIC, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonathan Göke

    Jonathan Göke

    Group leader, Genome Institute of Singapore

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Donald Green

    Donald Green

    Senior Field Application Specialist, Genomics and Diagnostics, Cytiva

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jiang He

    Jiang He

    Co-founder and Director of Scientific Affairs, Vizgen

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nathan Henson, MS

    Nathan Henson, MS

    Product Manager, Biospecimens and Cell Services, Discovery Life Sciences

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kyle Hondorp

    Kyle Hondorp

    Sr. Product Manager, Thermal Cyclers & Plastics, Thermo Fisher

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Steve Horvath

    Steve Horvath

    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Nicole Jagnandan, PhD

    Nicole Jagnandan, PhD

    Application Scientist, NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dominic John

    Dominic John

    VP, Marketing & Clinical Product Mgmt, Digital Insights

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daniel L Hertz, PharmD, PhD

    Daniel L Hertz, PharmD, PhD

    Assistant Professor, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP

    Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP

    Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jon M. Laurent, PhD

    Jon M. Laurent, PhD

    Director, Pandemic Response Labs

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Glennis Logsdon, PhD

    Glennis Logsdon, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Araks Martirosyan, Ph.D.

    Araks Martirosyan, Ph.D.

    Sr. Postdoctoral Researcher Laboratory of Glia Biology, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D

    Christopher E. Mason, Ph.D

    Associate Professor; Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rasika Mathias, ScD

    Rasika Mathias, ScD

    Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins, University Director of Genomics, GeneSTAR Research program, General Internal Medicine, Miller-Coulson Family Human Aging Project Scholar...

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Richard Michelmore

    Richard Michelmore

    Distinguished Professor and Director, The Genome Center, Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, University of California, Davis

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Karen Miga, PhD

    Karen Miga, PhD

    Assistant Research Scientist; UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Marija Navickaitė

    Marija Navickaitė

    Product Manager, Platinum DNA Polymerases and Phusion DNA Polymerases, Thermo Fisher

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lesley E. Northrop, PhD, FACMG

    Lesley E. Northrop, PhD, FACMG

    Chief Diagnostic Officer, Everly Health

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rebecca Nugent, PhD

    Rebecca Nugent, PhD

    Senior Director of BioPharma Product Strategy Twist Bioscience

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Andrea O'Hara, PhD

    Andrea O'Hara, PhD

    Strategic Technical Specialist, GENEWIZ, A Brooks Life Sciences Company

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Oberholzer, PhD

    Michael Oberholzer, PhD

    Associate Director, Product Management Infectious Disease & Microbiology, Illumina

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Cory Padilla, PhD

    Cory Padilla, PhD

    Head of Scientific Affairs, Dovetail Genomics

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joseph Pearson, PhD

    Joseph Pearson, PhD

    Global Product Manger, QIAGEN Digital Insights

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Beth Pitel, M.S., CG(ASCP)CM

    Beth Pitel, M.S., CG(ASCP)CM

    Assistant Professor and Senior Developer, Genomics Laboratory Mayo Clinic

    BIOGRAPHY
  • John Platig, PhD

    John Platig, PhD

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

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD

    Prem Premsrirut, MD, PhD

    Co-Founder, President and CEO, Mirimus, Inc.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Roham Razaghi, PhD Candidate

    Roham Razaghi, PhD Candidate

    Department of Biomedical Engineering John Hopkins University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fairlie Reese, PhD Student

    Fairlie Reese, PhD Student

    Mortazavi lab, The University of California, Irvine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD

    Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine Director of Cancer Genomics, Texas Children's Hospital

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Dr. Tobias Santl, PhD

    Dr. Tobias Santl, PhD

    Formulation Manufacturing Manager, Gene Evolution Library Group

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD

    Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD

    Director of Consulting Missouri Pharmacogenomics Consulting, LLC

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD

    Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD

    Human Genome Sequencing Centre, Baylor College of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Simpson, PhD

    David Simpson, PhD

    Reader, Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Donald Skifter, PhD, MBA

    Donald Skifter, PhD, MBA

    Sr. Vice President, Genomics, Discovery Life Sciences

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fernando Spikli, PhD

    Fernando Spikli, PhD

    Professor, Feevale University, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alina Steinbach

    Alina Steinbach

    Product Manager for Flow Sorting at Miltenyi Biotec

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Hannah Stevens, PhD

    Hannah Stevens, PhD

    Clinical Scientist, Genomics, North West Genomic Laboratory Hub (Liverpool)

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Tychele Turner, Ph.D.

    Tychele Turner, Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Justin Wagner, PhD

    Justin Wagner, PhD

    Computer Scientist, NIST

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Neil Winegarden, MSc

    Neil Winegarden, MSc

    Staff Field Application Scientist, 10X Genomics

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kenny Wong, MS CGC

    Kenny Wong, MS CGC

    Chief Product Officer, xCures

    BIOGRAPHY

Sponsors & Partners

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Event Series


Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2023
May 16, 2023 5:30 am Pacific Time

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2023

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2022
April 19, 2022 5:30 am Pacific Time

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2022

Forensic Sciences Virtual Event Series 2021
May 05, 2021 6:00 am Pacific Time

Forensic Sciences Virtual Event Series 2021

Forensic Sciences Virtual Event Series 2020
May 06, 2020 6:00 am Pacific Time

Forensic Sciences Virtual Event Series 2020

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2020
April 21, 2020 6:00 am Pacific Time

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2020

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2019
April 10, 2019 6:00 am Pacific Time

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2019

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2018
April 11, 2018 6:00 am Pacific Time

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2018

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2017
April 12, 2017 6:00 am Pacific Time

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2017

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2016
April 06, 2016 6:00 am Pacific Time

Molecular Diagnostics Virtual Event Series 2016

Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series 2014
August 20, 2014 6:00 am Pacific Time

Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series 2014

Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series 2013
August 21, 2013 6:00 am Pacific Time

Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series 2013

Program Committee

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  • Shawn Baker

    Dr. Shawn C. Baker is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of AllSeq. Having received his Ph.D. at the University of California - Davis, he started his career as a Research Scientist at Illumina when it was a 15-person startup. After spending several years at the bench ...

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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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  • Sarah Elsea

    Dr. Sarah H. Elsea is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and is Senior Division Director of Biochemical Genetics at Baylor Genetics. Dr. Elsea earned a B.S. in chemistry from Missouri State University and Ph.D. in biochemistry ...

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  • Emily Hollister

    Emily Hollister is the Director, R&D, Computational Biology for Diversigen. An accomplished microbial ecologist, her microbiome experience ranges from soils and biofuel production systems to the human microbiome and pre-clinical disease models. She leads a team of ...

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  • Eugean Jiwanmall

    Eugean Jiwanmall's past professional experiences include basic science and clinical research. In his current role as a Senior Research Analyst for Medical Policy & Technology Evaluation at Independence Blue Cross' Claim Payment Policy Department within Facilitated Health ...

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  • Mark Kiel, PhD

    Dr. Mark Kiel is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer at Genomenon, where he oversees the company's scientific direction and product development. After spending 15 years preparing for a life of academic research, Mark became convinced that revolutionary change in genomics was ...

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  • Jonas Korlach

    Jonas Korlach was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Pacific Biosciences in July 2012. He was previously a Scientific Fellow, supporting commercial development of the PacBio RS II system and performing research aimed at developing new applications for SMRT technologies. He ...

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  • Tatjana Matejic

    Tatjana is an immunologist with more than two decades of experience working at biotech and pharma companies from start-ups to large global corporations ( Pfizer,Inc. being the latest), contributing significantly to team efforts and successes of more than thirty early and clinical ...

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  • Molly McGinniss

    Molly McGinniss, MS, CGC, is Senior Director of Client and Partner Relations for Population Genomics at Genome Medical, a digital health company and specialty medical group focused on genetics and genomics. Through the Genome Medical Precision Insights team, she provides ...

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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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  • Fritz Sedlazeck

    Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck completed his PhD in 2012 in the group of Dr. Arndt von Haeseler at the Max F. Perutz Laboratory in Vienna. After a two year postdoc, he transitioned to the lab of Dr. Michael Schatz at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and later to Johns Hopkins University. Since ...

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  • Tao Wu

    Dr. Tao Wu received his B.S. from Nankai University a leading academic institution in China. In his last year at college, his reading of "What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell" (by physicist Erwin Schrödinger, 1944) inspired him to pursue a career in deciphering ...

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  • Dorottya Nagy-Szakal, MD PhD

    Dorottya earned her MD and PhD in clinical medicine from Semmelweis University of Medicine in Hungary. Holding postdoctoral fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital and Columbia University, she has 10+ years of experience in translational medicine ...

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  • Louisa Ive, MSc HCPC

    Louisa Ive, MSc HCPC, received her undergraduate education at University College London, London and completed her Clinical Scientist training at St George's University Hospital, London. She is a practicing Clinical Scientist, certified by the Health & Care Professions Council and ...

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  • Medhat Mahmoud, PhD

    Degree: Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science, Poznań, Poland. Postdoc fellow in Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine... Interests: I'm interested in studying genomic variants and their effect, including the ...

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