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EVENT DETAILS |
October 29, 2019American Museum of Natural History
LeFrak TheaterCentral Park West at 79th St, New York, NY 10024
Keynote Speaker:
David Reich, PhD, Harvard University
Conference Leaders/Moderators:
George Amato, PhD, American Museum of Natural History
Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, Rockefeller University & HHMI
Bruce D. Gelb, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David Goldstein, PhD, Columbia University
Cheryl Y. Hayashi, PhD, American Museum of Natural History
Conference Schedule:
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 8:45 am
IntroductionsJean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhDInvestigator, HHMI & Professor, The Rockefeller UniversityCheryl Hayashi, PhDSackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History
8:45 am - 9:45 am
Session 1: Keynote Seminar Moderator: David Goldstein, PhD
David Reich, PhDHarvard UniversityAncient DNA & the New Science of the Human Past
9:45 am - 10:15 am
Break & Posters
10:15 am - 11:35 am
Session 2: Contributed Presentations inMedical Genomics Moderator: Bruce Gelb, MD
10:15 am - 10:35 am
Orrin Devinsky,MDNew York UniversityMolecular basis of epilepsies
10:35 am - 10:55 am
Andrew Allen,PhDDuke UniversityUsing standing variation to assess pathogenicity
10:55 am - 11:15 am
Christopher Park,PhDFlatiron Institute, Simons FoundationWhole-genome analysis identifies contribution of noncoding mutations to autism risk
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Joseph Buxbaum,PhDIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiGenetics of autism
11:35 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch & Posters in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
1:00 pm - 2:40 pm
Session 3: Contributed Presentations inEvolution & Population Genomics, Part IModerator: Susan Perkins, PhD, American Museum of Natural History
1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Robert Burk,MDAlbert Einstein College of MedicineHuman papillomavirus evolution & carcinogenesis
1:20 pm - 1:40 pm
Bluma Lesch, MD, PhDYale School of MedicineEvolution of epigenetic poising in the mammalian germ line
1:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Ward Wheeler,PhDAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryEvolutionary studies of pancreatic cancer
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
William R. Jacobs, Jr., PhDAlbert Einstein College of MedicineAdaptation of Mycobacteria to human hosts
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Erich Jarvis,PhDRockefeller University & HHMIThe genetics of vocal learning & spoken language
2:40 pm - 3:15 pm
Breaks & Posters
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm
Session 4: Contributed presentations in Evolutionary & Population Genomics, Part IIModerator: George Amato, PhD
3:15 pm - 3:35 pm
Christina Bergey,PhDRutgers University & Penn StateUniversityConvergent evolution in African & Asian hunter-gatherers with short stature
3:35 pm - 3:55 pm
Christopher Mason,PhDWeill Cornell MedicineLessons from a year in space: multi-omic dynamics & plans for Mars
4:00 pm - 5:20pm
Session 5: Panel Discussion on How to Discuss Human Genetic Variation in the Age of GenomicsModerator: Cheryl Hayashi, PhD
Panelists: 1. Noura Abul-Husn, MD, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai 2. Emily Groopman, PhD Columbia University 3. Connie Westhoff, SBB, PhDNew York Blood Center 4. Pamela Sankar, PhDUniversity of Pennsylvania
5:20 pm - 5:30pm
Closing RemarksJean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD & Cheryl Hayashi, PhD
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