CEHG Genetics and Society Symposium 2015
Date and time
Location
Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Way Stanford, CA 94305Description
The Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) is proud to present the Genetics and Society Symposium 2015 (GSS15). The symposium aims to highlight current research from CEHG-affiliated Stanford labs and enable interactions between the CEHG community and the scientific genetics community at large. The first day, Monday, April 13th, will include presentations from guest speakers and CEHG faculty, a poster session, and an evening reception. The second event day, Tuesday, April 14th, will feature morning workshops for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars as well as additional presentations from guest speakers and CEHG affiliates.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Session One (9:00am - 11:50am)
Introduction by Carlos Bustamante
DNAnexus Keynote by Gene Myers: "The Resurrection of de novo DNA Sequencing"
Devaki Bhaya: "Diversity and conflict in microbial communities"
Nicolas Alcala: "Measuring the genetic differentiation of populations: what the most commonly used statistics do and do not tell us"
Stephen Montgomery: "Rare regulatory variation in human families"
Natasha O’Brown: "Searching for the Molecular Basis of Human Brain Expansion"
Session Two: (1:00pm - 5:00pm)
Keynote by Ed Green: "A simple approach for highly contiguous genome assemblies"
Julia Salzman: "Dynamic expression of circular RNA revealed by statistically based splicing detection"
Rachel Goldfeder: "Clinical Genome Sequencing: Challenges and Opportunities"
Keynote by Michelle Mello: "Data Sharing: What Might the Future Hold?"
Anna Rychkova: "Improving Computational Prediction of Missense Variants Pathogenicity for Clinically Relevant Genes"
Mike Cherry: "Do you have everything you need? How do you know?"
Oren Kolodny: "Evolution in leaps: the stepwise accumulation of cultural innovations"
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Workshops (9:00am - 10:30am)
Thomas Hayden: "Science writing for non-science audiences"
Kenneth Lange and Chiara Sabatti: "Contemporary problems in statistical genetics"
Session Three (10:30am - 12:00pm)
Dennis Wall: "Machine learning and big data to decode autism"
Mike Snyder: "What makes us different: Variation in regulatory information among humans"
Stuart Kim: "Genetics of Extreme Human Longevity"
Session Four (1:00pm - 5:00pm)
Keynote by Ami Bhatt: "Bugs, drugs, and cancer"
Susan Holmes: "Statistical and Computational Challenges from the Human Microbiome"
Rachael Bay: "The genomic basis of thermal tolerance in reef-building corals"
Christopher McFarland: "Measuring the effects of deleterious passengers in mice models and cancer genomics"
Carlos Bustamante: "Opportunities and challenges in population genomics and human identification"
Kathleen Xie: "DNA fragility and adaptive evolution in natural populations"
Josh Knowles: "Identification and characterization of NAT2 as an insulin resistance gene"
Closing remarks by Marc Feldman
Postdoctoral and graduate speakers include the following: Nicolas Alcala, Rachel Goldfeder, Oren Kolodny, Chris McFarland, Natasha O'Brown, Anna Rychkova, and Kathy Xie.
Faculty speakers include the following:
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The Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) was founded in 2012 to foster interdisciplinary research at the University. A collaboration between the School of Humanities and Sciences and the School of Medicine, the Center is the intellectual home of 32 professors and over 200 postdoctoral scholars and graduate students. CEHG funding opportunities include the Fellowship Program, Trainee Research Grants, and Faculty Seed Grants.