Exploring How Sequencing and Omics are Shaping Disease Research

 LIVE Symposium

Thursday, December 12, 2024
1:00 PM-4:00 PM ET (10:00 AM-1:00 PM PT)

As next-generation sequencing becomes more accessible, scientists gain unprecedented resolution to explore the underpinnings of health and disease. The information they have obtained has revolutionized how rare diseases and cancers are understood.

In this virtual symposium brought to you by The Scientist, an expert panel will explore the NGS platforms and complementary omics technologies essential for rare disease research. The panel will also discuss the lessons researchers continue to learn about rare diseases and more common disorders such as cancer from sequencing-powered data.

Symposium program

1:00 PM – Introduction

1:10 PM- Empowering Discovery with Automated Total RNA and WGA Sequencing

Yue Yun, PhD

1:30 PM – Deciphering Genetic and Non-Genetic Drivers of Cancer via Single Cell Multi-omics

Anna Nam, MD

2:00 PM – Leveraging NGS for Uncovering Rare Disease Mechanisms

Anupriya Dalmia, PhD  

2:30 PM - Pinpointing causal noncoding variants using massively-parallel single-cell CRISPR screens

Neville Sanjana, PhD

3:00 PM – Integrating Gene-Environment Interactions in Psychiatric Disorder Risk

Laura Huckins, PhD

3:30 PM - Open panel Q&A session
Nathan Ni from The Scientist's Creative Services Team will be joined by the entire panel in an open question and answer session where presenters will address questions posed by the audience.

Yue Yun, PhD R&D Director, NGS Takara Bio USA, Inc.

Anna Nam, MD Assistant Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine

Anupriya Dalmia, PhD Senior Researcher UK Dementia Research Institute University College London

Neville Sanjana, PhD Core Faculty Member New York Genome Center Associate Professor of Biology Neuroscience and Physiology New York University

Laura Huckins, PhD Associate Professor  Psychiatry Yale University

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