Register Now for the 4th Annual MGI Symposium!
Friday Sept 20th, 10am-3pm, Room 1755 at the School of Public Health
We will hear from keynote speaker Benjamin Neale; Dr. Neale is the co-director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He also serves as associate director of flagship disease projects for the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease at the Broad. He is an associate professor in the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (ATGU) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he directs the Genomics of Public Health Initiative.
We are also giving trainees the opportunity to present at the symposium to a friendly audience. If that is you or if one of your trainees is interested, please email us here.
Program Agenda:
- 10:00-10:30 Welcome and State of MGI
- 10:30-11:00 Return of Results
- Dan Hertz: Confirmatory Testing of Actionable Pharmacogenetic Genotypes for Clinical Use
- Tony Scott: Validation of clinically actionable MGI research results
- 11:00-11:40 Research Presentations
- Stephan Frangakis: TBA
- Lars Fritsche: From A Cryptic Email to Enduring Impact: A Decade of Working with the Michigan Genomics Initiative
- 11:40-12:00 Student Presentations
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
- 1:00-2:00 Keynote presentation
- Ben Neale: Genetic Analysis at Scale
- 2:00-2:20 Research presentation
- Ida Surakka: Importance of Collaboration in Genetic Research: MGI in Global Research Efforts
- 2:20-2:50 Technical Outlook
- Illumina and Annette Kim
- 2:50-3:00 Wrap Up
