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September 2023
Precision Medicine Pathway Keynote Address
Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Chief, Department of Pediatrics
Kennedy Family Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
presents, "Supporting Equity in Precision Pediatrics" Hosted by: Dr. Tim Schedl and Julie Choi (Milbrandt & Jin labs) In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC) Talk abstract: Sequencing-based genomic NBS can significantly expand NBS to numerous rare genetic diseases with a single common platform and provide synergies with traditional newborn screening and across conditions to decrease the cost/condition for screening and de-risk the investment across diseases/companies providing/developing treatments for rare genetic diseases. Pilot studies of genomic NBS will improve timely access to…
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Daniel Lew, PhD
Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center
presents, "Cell Polarity and Chemical Gradient tracking in Yeast" Hosted by: Dr. Susan Dutcher In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC) Talk abstract: How cells orient polarity in response to chemical gradients is a fundamental but poorly understood process. We use the pheromone-tracking ability of mating yeast as a model to dissect basic principles.
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Zhana Duren, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics & Biochemistry
Clemson University
presents, "Gene regulatory network analysis from single cell multi-omics data" Hosted by: Dr. Tychele Turner In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Jeffrey Milbrandt, MD, PhD
James S. McDonnell Professor of Genetics and Chair
Department of Genetics
Executive Director
McDonnell Genome Institute
Washington University School of Medicine
presents, "Neurometabolic Underpinnings of Peripheral Neurodegenerative Disorders" Hosted by: Dr. Joe Dougherty In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Jessica Feldman, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Stanford University
presents, "Building patterns in cells during development" Hosted by: Dr. Susan Dutcher In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Kristopher Kahle, MD, PhD
Associate Professor & Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
presents, "Genomics of developmental brain anomalies" Hosted by: Dr. Peter Jin In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Don Fox, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Duke University
presents, "Super-sized cells and not-so-silent mutations in organ development" Hosted by: Dr. Susan Dutcher In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Shaun Mahony, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Biology
Eberly College of Science
Penn State University
presents, "Understanding the sequence and chromatin predeterminants of induced transcription factor binding with neural networks" Hosted by: Dr. Shamim Mollah In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Mia Levine, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
presents, "Intra-genomic conflict and the evolution of genome integrity" Hosted by: Dr. Ting Wang In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Harrison Gabel, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Washington University School of Medicine
presents, "Dissecting epigenetic mechanisms in nervous system development and disease" Hosted by: Dr. Tristan Li In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Dagmar Wachten, PhD
Principal Investigator
Department of Biophysical Imaging & Molecular Physiology
Institute of Innate Immunity
University of Bonn
presents, "Shedding light on ciliary signaling and function" Hosted by: Dr. Susan Dutcher In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Alexis Battle, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
presents, "Genetics of gene expression across cell-type, time, and space" Hosted by: Dr. Barak Cohen In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Tony Tsai, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Developmental Biology
Washington University School of Medicine
presents, "How to make precise tissue patterns with noisy instructions?" Hosted by: Dr. Peter Jin In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Danny Miller, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine & Pathology
University of Washington
presents, "Streamlining research and clinical genetic testing: the promise of long-read sequencing" Hosted by: Dr. Peter Jin In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Lea Starita, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
presents, "Understanding genetic variation at scale" Hosted by: Dr. Heather Lawson In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Geraldine Seydoux, PhD
Huntington Sheldon Professor in Medical Discovery
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
presents, "Assembly and function of RNA granules in the C. elegans germline" Hosted by: Dr. Tim Schedl In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Daniel De Carvalho, PhD
Helen M. Cooke Professor of Cancer Epigenetics
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
University of Toronto
presents, "Ultra-Sensitive Tumor Detection and Classification using Methylome Analysis of Plasma cfDNA" Hosted by: Dr. Ting Wang In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Nicola Allen, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
presents, "Astrocyte-neuron interaction in health and disease" Hosted by: Dr. Guoyan Zhao In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
Find out more »March 2024
Nadav Ahituv, PhD
Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
presents, "Functional characterization and therapeutic targeting of gene regulatory elements" Hosted by: Dr. Barak Cohen In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Michael Schatz, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Department of Computer Science & Quantitative Biology
Johns Hopkins University
presents, "Computing at scale with the NHGRI AnVIL" Hosted by: Dr. Tychele Turner In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Anshul Kundaje, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
presents, "Deep learning the cis-regulatory code and single base and single cell resolution" Hosted by: Dr. Heather Lawson In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Siavash Kurdistani, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Biological Chemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
presents, "Histones and Copper: A common thread from eukaryogenesis to human disease" Hosted by: Dr. Gabor Egervari In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Xian Piao, MD, PhD
Benioff Professor in Children’s Health
Director, the Newborn Brain Research Institute
Vice Chief of Academics, Division of Neonatology
presents, "G protein-coupled receptor-depending brain development and malformation" Hosted by: Dr. Tristan Li In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Mike Love, PhD
Associate Professor
Departments of Genetics & Biostatistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
presents, "Assaying effects of GWAS variants in organs with in vivo massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA)" Hosted by: Dr. Heather Lawson In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Mustafa Aydogan, DPhil
Assistant Professional Researcher
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco
presents, "Autonomous clocks in cytoplasmic organization and division" Hosted by: Dr. Susan Dutcher In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Fritz Sedlazeck, PhD
Associate Professor
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Baylor College of Medicine
presents, "Genomic Structural Variations and beyond 1" Hosted by: Dr. Peter Jin In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Bal Khakh, PhD
Professor
Departments of Physiology & Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles
presents, "Unmasking astrocyte roles in neural circuits and disease" Hosted by: Dr. Joe Dougherty In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Student-invited speaker, Stephen Johnson Memorial Lecture
Jesse Gillis, PhD
James B. Bassingthwaighte Chair in Integrative Physiology
Department of Physiology
University of Toronto
presents, "High-throughput inference to understand cell programs in evolution and development" Hosted by: Simona Sarafinovska, Sneha Chaturvedi, & Genetics' trainees & postdocs In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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Ev Yemini, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
presents, "A Tale of Two Sexes: The Neural Dynamics of Dimorphic Behavior" Hosted by: Dr. Brett Maricque In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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David Gutmann, MD, PhD
Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor and Director, Neurofibromatosis Center
Department of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
presents, "Neuronal regulation of nervous system tumor formation and progression" Hosted by: Dr. Tristan Li In-person only: Connor Auditorium (FLTC)
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