2021 Agenda
Preview the General Meeting agenda to explore a wealth of stimulating presentations, interactive workshops, dedicated networking sessions, and more.
Monday, March 1, 2021
SESSION I: Eric Green, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Session Chair
10:00 a.m. –10:20 a.m.
Bert Vogelstein
Co-Director of the Ludwig Center at John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and an Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
10:20 a.m. –10:25 a.m.
Live Q&A
10:30 a.m. –10:50 a.m.
Catherine Brownstein
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
10:50 a.m. –10:55 a.m
Live Q&A
11:00 a.m. –11:20 a.m.
Josh Denny
Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program
11:20 a.m. –11:25 a.m.
Live Q&A
11:30 p.m. –11:45 p.m.
*Alex Swarbrick
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
“A Multi-omic single cell and spatial atlas of breast cancer reveals stromal suppression of anti-cancer immunity”
11:45 p.m.–12:00 p.m.
*Dylan Swarbrick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Robust decomposition of cell type mixtures in spatial transcriptomics”
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m
Lunch and Exhibits/Virtual Lab
Abstract Selected Talk *
Monday, March 1, 2021 (Afternoon)
SESSION II: Beth Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz, Session Chair
12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Eddie Holmes
University of Sydney and Sydney Medical School
12:50 p.m. –12:55 p.m
Live Q&A
1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Cheryl Hayashi
Curator, Professor and Director of Comparative Biology Research, American Museum of Natural History
1:20 p.m. –1:25 p.m
Live Q&A
Major Sponsor Workshops
1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
NanoString Gold Workshop
2:15 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
New England Biolabs Silver Workshop
2:45 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Twist Bioscience Silver Workshop
3:15 p.m. –4:40 p.m.
Beckman Coulter Silver Workshop
4:40 p.m. –6:00 p.m.
Posters
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 (Morning)
SESSION III: Kim Doheny, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Session Chair
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Gregg Semenza
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
10:20 a.m. – 10:25 a.m
Live Q&A
10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Eimear Kenny
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
10:50 a.m. – 10:55 a.m
Live Q&A
11:00 a.m. –11:20 a.m.
TBD
11:20 a.m. –11:25 a.m.
Live Q&A
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
*Jason Klein
University of Washington
“A systematic evaluation of the design and context dependencies of massively parallel reporter assays”
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
*Andrew Yang
Department of Neurology, Stanford University
“A Spatial Transcriptome Atlas of the Human Brain Vasculature in Alzheimer’s Disease”
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch and Exhibits/Virtual Lab
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 (Afternoon)
SESSION IV: John McPherson, University of California, Davis, Session Chair
12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Jef Boeke
Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Genetics at New York University Langone Medical Center
12:50 p.m. – 12:55 p.m
Live Q&A
1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m
Neville Sanjana
New York Genome Center and New York University
1:20 p.m. – 1:25 p.m
Live Q&A
Bronze Sponsor Talks
1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
PacBio
1:5O p.m. – 2:10 p.m.
Qiagen
2:10 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
10X
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Vizgen
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
DNA Script
3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
ROSALIND
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Codexis
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Posters
Abstract Selected Talk *
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 (Morning)
SESSION V: Martin Hirst, University of British Columbia, Session Chair
10:00 a.m. –10:20 a.m.
Samantha Morris
Washington University School of Medicine
10:20 a.m. –10:25 a.m.
Live Q&A
10:30 a.m. –10:50 a.m.
John Greally
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York Genome Center
10:50 a.m. –10:55 a.m.
Live Q&A
11:00 a.m. –11:20 a.m.
Detlev Arendt
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
11:20 a.m. –11:25 a.m.
Live Q&A
11:30 p.m. –12:00 p.m.
Flash Talks-Highlighted abstracts selected by our Scientific Organizing Committee
12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m.
Lunch and Exhibits/Virtual Lab
Abstract Selected Talk *
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 (Afternoon)
SESSION VI: Stacey Gabriel, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Session Chair
12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Jin Billy Li
Stanford
12:50 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.
Live Q&A
1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
*Chris Mason
Weill Cornell Medicine
“High-plex spatial profiling of COVID-19 lung tissue reveals alterations in interferon signaling associated with high COVID infection distinct from Influenza infection”
1:15 p.m. –1:30 p.m.
*Jinyue Liu
Genome Institute of Singapore
“Integrative analysis of single-cell transcriptomics with multiplexed RNA imaging for mapping autism pathophysiology”
Bronze Sponsor Talks
1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Perkin Elmer
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Rebus
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Illumina
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
IDT
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Twinstrand
Abstract Selected Talk *
SESSION VII: Late Breaking
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
TBD
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
TBD
3:15 p.m .– 3:30 p.m.
TBD
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
TBD
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
TBD
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