DAY 1 - Thursday, September 9, 2021 (Evening)
Session I: Genomic Medicine I (Mike Talkowski, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and The Broad Institute, Chair) Commodore Ballrooms C,D & E
5:00pm – 5:05PM
Welcome Remarks
5:05 PM – 5:35 PM
Stephen Kingsmore
President/CEO of Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
“Recent developments and future directions in genome-informed healthcare for infants.”
5:37 PM – 6:05 PM
Joyce Tung
23andMe, Vice President of Research
“Consumer-driven precision health”
6:07 PM – 6:37 PM
Joshua Denny
Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.
“All of Us Research Program: Improving health through technology, huge cohorts, and precision medicine”
6:39 PM – 7:09 PM
Vence Bonham, Jr.
Senior advisor to the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) on genomics and health disparities
“Maximizing the usability of genomics for all”
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Bay Terrace
Welcome Reception
Friday, September 10, 2021 (Morning)
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Bay Terrace
Breakfast
Session II: Genomic Medicine II (Eric Green, National Human Genome Research Institute, Chair) – Commodore Ballrooms C, D & E
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Rory Collins
PI/CEO of UK Biobank, and Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford
“UK Biobank: an international resource for studying the determinants of disease”
9:32 AM – 10:02 AM
David Glazer
Verily Life Sciences engineering director and CTO of the Terra project
“Genomics for All of Us”
10:04 AM – 10:34 AM
Kathryn Phillips
Founding Director of the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS)
“Addressing economic and reimbursement challenges for genomic medicine: Who should pay? Who will pay?”
10:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Coffee Break
Session III: The Great Debate (Geoff Ginsburg, Founding Director for the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center)
11:05 AM – 12:05 PM
To sequence or not: the relative value of genome sequencing across a healthcare system.
Panelists:
Lew Berman, Deputy Chief Technology Officer/All of Us Research Program at The National Institutes of Health.
Muin Khoury, Founding director of the CDC’s Office of Genomics and Precision Public Health
Heidi Rehm, Massachusetts General Hospital and The Broad Institute
Friday, September 10, 2021 (Afternoon)
12:05 PM – 1:30 PM
Bay Terrace
Lunch
1:30 PM – 2:55 PM
Commodore A&B
Poster Session
Session IV: Precision Therapeutics
(Wendy Chung, Columbia University, Chair) –
Commodore Ballrooms C,D & E
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Sek Kathiresan
Co-founder and chief executive officer of Verve Therapeutics
“From reading the genome for risk to rewriting it for cardiovascular health”
3:32 PM – 4:02 PM
Mark Zylka
Professor and Director, UNC Neuroscience Center
“Advancing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene therapy for Angelman Syndrome”
4:04 PM – 4:34 PM
Cori Bargmann
The Rockefeller University
“Accelerating science through technology and collaboration”
4:36 PM – 4:56 PM
Kathryn Geiger-Schuller (Abstract Selected)
Regev Group, Genentech
Identifying redundancy and synergy in regulatory networks by observing and predicting genetic interactions in massively parallel pooled genetic screens
Sponsor Talks
5:00 PM – 5:25 PM
Diamond Sponsor Workshop – IsoPlexis
Rui Zheng, Ph.D., SVP of Innovation
Patrick Paczkowski, Ph.D., VP of Software
“Duomic: A highly multiplexed and simultaneous single cell transcriptomics and functional proteomics platform to transform biology”
5:25 PM – 5:40 PM
Sapphire Sponsor Workshop – Veranome Biosystems
Christopher Streck, Director, Applications & Technical Marketing
“Veranome’s highly multiplexed spatial RNA profiling of TME and neuro tissues”
5:40 PM – 5:52 PM
Ruby 1 Sponsor Workshop – PerkinElmer
Michelle Fraser, General Manager, Next Generation Sequencing, PerkinElmer
Emerging trends in infection disease surveillance
6:00 PM
Dinner on your own, free evening
Saturday, September 11, 2021 (Morning)
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Bay Terrace
Breakfast
Session V: Advancing human disease studies (Heidi Rehm, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute, Chair)
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Elizabeth McNally
Director for the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine
“Genetics of heart function: rare, common, and in between”
9:32 AM – 10:01 AM
Mary De Silva
Head of Population Health, Wellcome Trust
“Disrupting population health research to achieve better health for all”
10:03 AM – 10:33 AM
Fabiola Quintero-Rivera
Professor in pathology and pediatrics, UCI
10:33 AM – 11:02 AM
Coffee Break
11:05 AM – 11:25 AM
Iain Forrest (Abstract Selected)
Do Lab, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Underdiagnosis of genetic disorders in a large population-based biobank cohort: a genome-first study using linked exome sequencing and electronic health record data
Sponsor Talks
11:27 AM – 11:47 AM
Emerald Sponsor Workshop – Canopy Biosciences
Thomas Campbell
Precise spatial multiplexing for immune profiling in cancer with ChipCytometryTM
11:47 AM – 11:59 AM
Ruby Sponsor Workshop – Dovetail Genomics
Iain Russell, PhD, Director of Marketing, Dovetail Genomics
From mechanism of action to biomarker discovery: How chromatin landscape informs translational research
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Bay Terrace
Lunch
Session VI: Late Breaking: Updates on Covid-19 Research: Commodore Ballrooms C, D & E
Late Breaking Advances
Moderator: Howard McLeod, FASCO, FCCP Medical Director, Precision Medicine Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine
1:30 PM – 1:50 PM
Josh Cohen (Abstract Selected)
Vogelstein Lab, Johns Hopkins Ludwig Center
“Detection of low-frequency DNA varients by targeted sequencing of the Watson and Crick strands”
1:52 PM – 2:22 PM
Joseph Gleeson
Rady Professor, University of California San Diego Neurosciences and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine
“Gene-environment interactions in central nervous system development.”
2:24 PM – 3:04 PM
Andrea Ganna
Co-founder of the COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative and group leader at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)
“The COVID-19 Host Genetic Initiative”
3:06 PM – 3:36 PM
Bronwyn Macinnis
Director of Pathogen Genomic Surveillance and an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute
3:36 PM – 3:45 PM
Closing Comments
Prize Winners Announced
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Bay Terrace
