Agenda

April 30, 2014

08:00am

 

Registration Opens
Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

08:45am

 

Welcome
Jason Bobe, Executive Director of PersonalGenomes.org

 

 

 

08:47am

 

Opening Remarks
George Church
Introduced by Ryan Phelan

 

 

 

09:00am

 

Session I: Human Genomics
Sponsored Talk: Nathaniel Pearson: Sharing, Comparing, and Exploring Our Genomes in the Empowered Genome Community (video)

GENOMES IN MEDICINE PANEL (video)
Robert Green: Integrating medical genetics into primary care
Michael Linderman: Preparing the next generation of genomicists
Diana Bianchi: How Prenatal Screening Using Sequencing of Cell-Free Fetal DNA is Revolutionizing Prenatal Care (In a Very Short Time)
Carolyn Johnson, moderator

 

 

 

10:30am

 

Break

 

 

 

10:45am

 

Session II: Explorers
Vignette: Randy Buckner: Genome meet Brain Connectome (video)

Vignette: Ting Wu: A genomic puzzle, a potential therapy, and Space (video)

Vignette: AJ Jacobs: Creating a Global Family Tree (video)

 

 

 

12:00pm

 

Break
Networking and Lunch

 

 

 

01:30pm

 

Session III: Environments

GENOMICS & SPORTS PANEL (video)
Heidi Rehm, Genetics lab director and cardiomyopathies expert
Mark Gerstein, Yale computational biologist
David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene
Jonathan Scheiman, moderator

Vignette: Geoffrey Von Maltzahn: Microbes as medicine: Microbiome therapeutics and a new era of ecological medicine

 

 

 

03:00pm

 

Break

 

 

 

03:30pm

 

Session IV: Measuring & Modifying Traits
Sponsored Talk: Juhan Sonin: Health Axioms (video)

Vignette: Deborah Estrin: Small Data (video)

Vignette: Alastair Dant & Albert Sun: Storytelling with Sensors (video)

 

 

 

04:45pm

 

Session V: Frontiers
Sponsored Talk: Jonathan Bingham: Genomics on Google Cloud Platform (video)

David Altshuler: Future of GWAS (video)
Introduced by Michael Chou

 

 

 

05:30pm

 

Wrap-up

 

 

 

*Agenda is subject to change

 

Venue

Hotel Marlowe
Ballroom
25 Edwin H Land Blvd
Cambridge, MA 02141