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MAY 16 - 18 2023 Opens: 6:00 AM PDT

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2023

Labroots is excited to announce our 11th Annual Event in the Genetics Week Virtual Event Series held on May 16-18, 2023!

Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2023 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.

The tracks and topics for this year's event include:

Genetics and Genomics

  • Emerging Technologies and Novel Implementations
  • Single-Cell Genomics
    • Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Multi-Omics Methods and Applications
  • Long-read Sequencing
  • Representation in Genetic and Genomic Studies
    • Sex, Gender, Aging, and Health
    • Underserved Populations
    • Health Disparities
    • Disease and Accelerated Aging
  • New Trends in Medicine
    • AI
    • Network Medicine

Molecular Diagnostics

  • New Approaches in Molecular Diagnostics
  • Advances and Applications in Liquid Biopsy
  • Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Surveillance

Precision Medicine

  • Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice
    • New Approaches to Therapeutic Development
  • Moving Beyond Mutation
  • Precision Diagnostics
    • Companion Diagnostics
    • Omics-Based Biomarkers

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 2023 Genetics Virtual Week. Submit your abstract here.

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 genetics community with a high degree of interaction through live-streaming video and chat sessions.

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.
 

Connect with us!
When you attend the event remember to use the hashtag #LRgenetics to follow the conversation and connect with other members of the global Genetics & Genomics community! Follow @Genetics_LR on Twitter and @GeneticsandGenomics on Facebook to connect with our specialist Genetics & Genomics Writers and stay up to date with the latest Trending News.  


Speakers
  • Christiano R. R. Alves, PhD

    Instructor in Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Yilei Fu

    PhD Student, Computer Science Department, Rice University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • 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
  • Cissy Jiang, MS

    Sr. Global Product Manager, NGS products, Bio-Rad Laboratories
  • Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP

    Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Medhat Mahmoud, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daryl Pritchard, PhD

    Senior Vice President of Science Policy, Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC)
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG

    Director, Genomic Medicine Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH, Chief Genomics Officer, Department of Medicine, MGH, Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Medical Director, Broad Clinical Laboratory, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mina Zeinali, PhD

    Field Application Scientist III, Single Cell technologies, Bio-Rad Laboratories

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Agenda

Scheduled
  • Panel Presentation: Achieving Efficient and Sensitive Rare Cell Capture for Culture and Downstream Molecular Analyses

    Sponsored By: Bio-Rad Laboratories
    Mina Zeinali, PhD
    Field Application Scientist III, Single Cell technologi...
    Cissy Jiang, MS
    Sr. Global Product Manager, NGS products, Bio-Rad Labor...
  • Keynote Presentation: The Path to Universal Newborn Sequencing with Live Q&A
    MAY 16, 2023 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The Path to Universal Newborn Sequencing with Live Q&A

    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
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • MethPhase: Automated Methylation-based Haplotype Phasing of Human Genomes with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

    MethPhase: Automated Methylation-based Haplotype Phasing of Human Genomes with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

    Yilei Fu
    PhD Student, Computer Science Department, Rice University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Utility of Long-Read Sequencing for Cohort Analysis

    Utility of Long-Read Sequencing for Cohort Analysis

    Medhat Mahmoud, PhD
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
Scheduled
  • Keynote Presentation: Precision Medicine as a Population Health Strategy with Live Q&A
    MAY 17, 2023 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: Precision Medicine as a Population Health Strategy with Live Q&A

    Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP
    Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Keynote Presentation: The Impact of Clinical Practice Gaps on the Implementation of Personalized Medicine in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (aNSCLC) with Live Q&A
    MAY 17, 2023 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Presentation: The Impact of Clinical Practice Gaps on the Implementation of Personalized Medicine in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (aNSCLC) with Live Q&A

    Daryl Pritchard, PhD
    Senior Vice President of Science Policy, Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC)
    BIOGRAPHY
The following webinars will be readily on-demand when the event starts
  • A Permanent Genetic Treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using Base Editors

    A Permanent Genetic Treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using Base Editors

    Christiano R. R. Alves, PhD
    Instructor in Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Advancing Genomic Medicine through Global Collaboration

    Advancing Genomic Medicine through Global Collaboration

    Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG
    Director, Genomic Medicine Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH, Chief Genomics Officer, Department of Medicine, MGH, Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Medical Director, Broad Clinical Laboratory, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Genetics and Genomics
    • Long-read Sequencing
    • MethPhase: Automated Methylation-based Haplotype Phasing of Human Genomes with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

      MethPhase: Automated Methylation-based Haplotype Phasing of Human Genomes with Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

      Yilei Fu
      PhD Student, Computer Science Department, Rice University
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Utility of Long-Read Sequencing for Cohort Analysis

      Utility of Long-Read Sequencing for Cohort Analysis

      Medhat Mahmoud, PhD
      Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
  • Precision Medicine
    • Precision Medicine in Clinical Practice
    • A Permanent Genetic Treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using Base Editors

      A Permanent Genetic Treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using Base Editors

      Christiano R. R. Alves, PhD
      Instructor in Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Keynote Presentation: Precision Medicine as a Population Health Strategy with Live Q&A
      MAY 17, 2023 7:30 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: Precision Medicine as a Population Health Strategy with Live Q&A

      Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP
      Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
      BIOGRAPHY
    • Keynote Presentation: The Impact of Clinical Practice Gaps on the Implementation of Personalized Medicine in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (aNSCLC) with Live Q&A
      MAY 17, 2023 9:00 AM PDT

      Keynote Presentation: The Impact of Clinical Practice Gaps on the Implementation of Personalized Medicine in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (aNSCLC) with Live Q&A

      Daryl Pritchard, PhD
      Senior Vice President of Science Policy, Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC)
      BIOGRAPHY
  • Molecular Diagnostics
    • New Approaches in Molecular Diagnostics
    • Advancing Genomic Medicine through Global Collaboration

      Advancing Genomic Medicine through Global Collaboration

      Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG
      Director, Genomic Medicine Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH, Chief Genomics Officer, Department of Medicine, MGH, Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Medical Director, Broad Clinical Laboratory, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
      BIOGRAPHY

Speakers


  • Christiano R. R. Alves, PhD

    Christiano R. R. Alves, PhD

    Instructor in Neurology, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Yilei Fu

    Yilei Fu

    PhD Student, Computer Science Department, Rice University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • 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
  • Cissy Jiang, MS

    Cissy Jiang, MS

    Sr. Global Product Manager, NGS products, Bio-Rad Laboratories

  • Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP

    Dr. Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP

    Medical Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Medhat Mahmoud, PhD

    Medhat Mahmoud, PhD

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Daryl Pritchard, PhD

    Daryl Pritchard, PhD

    Senior Vice President of Science Policy, Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC)

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG

    Heidi L. Rehm, PhD, FACMG

    Director, Genomic Medicine Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH, Chief Genomics Officer, Department of Medicine, MGH, Co-Director, Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute; Medical Director, Broad Clinical Laboratory, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Mina Zeinali, PhD

    Mina Zeinali, PhD

    Field Application Scientist III, Single Cell technologies, Bio-Rad Laboratories

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Continuing Education Credits

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Rachel Shelmerdine, PhD, MBA

    Rachel Shelmerdine has over 12 years' experience in the diagnostics industry, with lead roles across R&D, product development and innovation/medical affairs at Qiagen and Yourgene Health. Rachel has a proven track record of taking innovative, proof of principle technologies ...

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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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