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“Dr. Evan Eichler: insights into the genetics on autism at @nygenome – full house!,” tweeted human geneticist Elena Sanchez at the start of the 5th Human Genetics in New York City (HGNYC), a day-long event held at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) on February 2.
The 5th HGNYC Conference, the latest in a series of biannual gatherings of information-sharing of human genetics research, attracted a record, standing-room-only turnout at the NYGC. The robust program featured 15 speaker presentations, 38 poster displays and opportunities to tour the NYGC’s wet labs and sequencing facilities.
“Excited to visit New York Genome Center today,” tweeted Stanford University’s School of Medicine’s Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD, was a typical sentiment expressed by HGNYC’s engaged and networking audience. Satpathy was one of six scientists from around the country selected to present a short talk on their work by HGNYC’s poster abstract selection committee, which included NYGC’s Nicolas Robine, PhD, Assistant Director, Computational Biology, and NYGC Core Faculty Members Joe Pickrell, PhD, and Marcin Imielinski, MD, PhD.
The HGNYC program was anchored by nine longer talks by invited speakers, kicked off by a 50-minute keynote by Dr. Eichler, NYGC Associate Member, Professor, Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. NYGC Core Faculty Member Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD, served as speaker selection advisor.
The conference leaders/moderators of the 5th HGNYC Conference were Tom Maniatis, PhD, New York Genome Center & Columbia University; Bruce D. Gelb, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, The Rockefeller University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and David Goldstein, PhD, New York Genome Center, Columbia University & Weill Cornell Medicine, with opening remarks by NYGC President and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl A. Moore.
The 6th HGNYC Conference will be on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, hosted at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. The keynote speaker will be Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Stay tuned for more details on the program from the conference organizers.
See below for the complete conference program.
5TH HUMAN GENETICS IN NYC CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE LEADERS/MODERATORS:
Tom Maniatis, PhD
Scientific Director & Chief Executive Officer, New York Genome Center Director, Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative
Isidore S. Edelman Professor, Biochemistry Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD
Professor, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases
The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David Goldstein, PhD
Associate Member, New York Genome Center
John E. Borne Professor of Genetics and Development, Columbia University Medical Center
Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine
OPENING REMARKS:
Cheryl A. Moore
President & Chief Operating Officer, New York Genome Center
Tom Maniatis, PhD
Scientific Director & Chief Executive Officer, New York Genome Center
Director, Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative
Isidore S. Edelman Professor, Biochemistry, Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Columbia University
Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD
Professor, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Evan E. Eichler, PhD
Associate Member, New York Genome Center
Professor, Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
“Insights into the Genetics of Autism”
Eimear Kenny, PhD
Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Population Genetics in an Era of Precision Medicine”
Olga Troyanskaya, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science & Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Deputy Director for Genomics, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation
“From Genome to Clinical Outcome: Decoding the Impact of Noncoding Mutations in Human Disease”
Molly Przeworski, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
“Sex and Age Effects on Human Germline Mutation”
Molly Gale Hammell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Mobile Genomics: TDP-43 Links Mobile Element Control to Neurodegenerative Disease”
Philip L. De Jager, MD, PhD
Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, and the Precision Medicine Initiative, Director, Center for Translational & Computational Neuro-Immunology Director, Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care & Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center
“The Genetic Architecture of Human Microglial Traits: Grounding Network Models & Clinical Translation”
Daniel Felsky, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Center for Translational and Computational Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center
“Neuropathological Correlates and Molecular-Genetic Causes of Microglial Activation in Elderly Human Brain”
Cristen J. Willer, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
“Genome-Wide Association Study of 1 Million People Identifies 111 Loci for Atrial Fibrillation”
Matthew T. Maurano, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health
“Decoding Regulatory Variation”
Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
Instructor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
“Enhancer Connectome in Primary Human Cells Reveals Target Genes of Disease-Associated DNA Elements”
Julia TCW, PhD
Druckenmiller Fellow, New York Stem Cell Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease, The Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Cell Autonomous Effects of APOE ε 4/ε 4 on Human iPSC-Derived Astrocytes and Microglia”
Sahin Naqvi
Graduate Student, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
“A Multi-Tissue Program of Sex-Biased Gene Expression Conserved Across Mammals”
Ronan Chaligne, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, New York Genome Center & Weill Cornell Medicine
“Epigenetic Evolution and Lineage Histories of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia”
Christina Leslie, PhD
Member, Computational Biology Program, SKI, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
“Decoding Immune Cell States in Development and Disease”
Marcin Imielinski, MD, PhD
Core Faculty Member, New York Genome Center
Assistant Professor of Computational Genomics, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
“Signatures of Complex Rearrangements Across Thousands of Human Cancer Genomes”
CLOSING REMARKS:
Tom Maniatis, PhD
