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 (details: 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)

*Agenda is subject to change

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