Meeting Registration

Opening Remarks

Richard Wilson

Executive Director, The Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Board Member and Co-Founder of AGBT

Francis Collins

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Two decades of breathtaking progress in genomics – but the best is yet to come

Barbara Wold

California Institute of Technology

Carrie Cibulskis*

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Liquid biopsy assays for the next generation of personalized cancer treatment

Asaf Rotem*

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Single-cell analysis of the malignant ascites ecosystem provides cues for classification of ovarian cancer and potential therapeutic avenues

Leroy Hood

PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES

21st Century Medicine: Systems Biology, Big Data and Deep Phenotyping

Barbara Rae-Venter

Director, Investigative Genetic Genealogy, Gene by Gene

Investigative genetic genealogy

Matthew Keller*

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Portable influenza A virus diagnostics and surveillance

George Church*

Harvard University

Technologies for reading and writing omes

Poster Flash Talks*

MARTIN HIRST

University of British Columbia, Chair

Catherine Ball

ANCESTRY DNA

Bringing genome sequencing into the consumer marketplace

Richard Myers

HudsonAlpha Institute

Genomics, gene regulation and the human brain

David Danko*

Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University

Global genetic cartography of urban metagenomes and antimicrobial resistance”

Deanna Church*

Inscripta, Inc

A benchtop platform for generating highly multiplexed variant libraries

Francisco De La Vega

Fabric Genomics

Benchmarking an artificial intelligence method for fast diagnosis of rare genetic disease

David Craig

University of Southern California

Integrative analysis and visualization of spatial transcriptomics data In oncology and neuroscience settings

Yaniv Erlich

Columbia University/MyHeritage

The DNA of things

Uday Evani

New York Genome Center

High coverage whole genome sequencing of 2504 samples from the 1000 Genomes Project

Amnon Koren

Cornell University

Inferring human DNA replication timing en masse in thousands of samples

Sara Selitsky

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fast clustering millions of single cells

Catherine Cottrell

Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Enrichment of Targetable Gene Fusion Events and their Associated Impact in a Pediatric Cancer Population

William Hwang

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Single-nucleus RNA-seq reveals distinct intratumoral transcriptomic heterogeneity in treatment-naïve and chemoradiotherapy-treated primary pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Marcin Imielinski

Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University

Unraveling the allelic structure around recurrent complex structural variant patterns in cancer using optical mapping and linked-reads

Maija Kiuru

University of California Davis

Identification of cell type-specific RNA biomarker candidates in melanocytic tumors using digital spatial profiling

Richard Moore

Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

Whole genome and transcriptome sequencing for personalized cancer therapy

Deep Pandya

Danbury Hospital

Clonal cancer-mutations but without clinical disease: Cancer-driver gene mutations are nearly ubiquitous in uterine tissue from women without cancer

Richard Wilson

Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Advances in cancer genomics

Marco Marra

Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

Towards a Canadian national program for genomic profiling of treatment resistant cancers.

Kathryn Geiger-Schuller*

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Relating thousands of variants to function with massively parallel pooled genetic screens

Xiaowu Gai*

Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles

Dynamic encryption and watermarking of genomic sequencing data to facilitate privacy-preserving ownership-based data governance

Poster Flash Talks

Federica Di Palma

Earlham Institute, University of East Anglia, Chair

AGBT Lunch

Twist Bioscience

Catherine Foo, Ph.D., Director of Laboratory Sciences at Ancestry

Success Never Settles”

Illumina

Gary Schroth, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist, Illumina, Inc

Transforming the Future of Genomics, Together

Xin Jin

Harvard University

In vivo Perturb-Seq reveals neuronal and glial abnormalities associated with Autism risk genes

Chongyuan Luo

University of California Los Angeles

Multi-omic profiling of single nuclei uncovers regulatory diversity of brain cell types and diseases

Laura Mincarelli

Earlham Institute

Integrated short and long read single cell RNA-sequencing reveals alternative splicing events in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

Martin Strazar

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Molecular dynamics of the subcellular transcriptome: a contribution of nuclear and cytoplasmic RNAs to neuronal phenotype and identity

Sanja Vickovic

The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

High-definition spatial transcriptomics for in situ tissue profiling

Christopher Mason

Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University

Diplotype-resolved, single-molecule telomere sequencing reveals elongation during spaceflight, radiation damage, and non-canonical repeats

Brenda Oppert

United States Department of Agriculture

Feed the World: Developing genomic resources for insects as food

Andrea Kohn

University of Florida

Molecular architecture of the earliest branching bilaterian – Xenoturbella

Niels Tommerup

University of Copenhagen

Evolutionary conserved topological associating domains define high risk genomic regions for long range dysregulation

Brendan Keating

University of Pennsylvania

Concept, design and implementation of a pilot pharmacogenomics program between UnitedHealth Group and academic clinicians/scientists

Adam Ameur

Science for Life Laboratory

Studying CRISPR guide RNA specificity by amplification-free long read sequencing

Tina Lindsay

McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University

Generating high quality human reference assemblies

John Novembre

University of Chicago

New tools for the analysis and visualization of geographic structure in population genetic data

Mary Armanios

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Telomere Syndromes: A paradigm for molecular medicine

Jennifer Fogarty

NASA Human Research Program

NASA Human Research Program: Omics informing human health and performance for space exploration

Brandon LaBarge*

Penn State Health

Optical genomic mapping identifies the structure of human papillomavirus genomes in head and neck cancers

Sisi Chen*

California Institute of Technology

Probing multicellular mechanisms of immune modulation with massively parallel single-cell mRNA-seq

Scott Tighe

UVM Integrative Genomics

Genomic strategies for profiling extreme and novel environments

Sarah Teichmann

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Cell Atlas Technologies & Deciphering Thymic Development

Scott Tighe

UVM Integrative Genomics

Genomic strategies for profiling extreme and novel environments

Shawn Levy*

HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Forensic identification and profiling with genomic technologies

David Sinclair*

Harvard Medical School

Epigenetic entropy as a cause of aging and its reversal by Tet-dependent reprogramming

Rade Drmanac*

MGI Americas Inc

First $100 genome sequencing enabled by new extreme throughput DNBSEQ platform