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NHGRI Annual Conference

BIG students and NHGRI trainees attended the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting, April 2-4, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah.  

NHGRI dinner
The Annual Meeting is a venue for trainees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Genomic Sciences, Genomic Medicine and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) fields to present their research and form collaborations with other trainees and established researchers from training programs across the United States.

Many students shared their research through the poster sessions. 

Gwen poster

Above: Gwen Miller presents "Phylogeny-free estimation of parallel evolution"

 

Daniel

Above: Daniel Stein presents "Spatial Priors for Cell-Type Decomposition in Spatial Transcriptomics"

 

Allen

Above:  Allen Lynch presents "Multi-batch single cell comparative atlas construction by deep learning disentanglement"

 

Sandeep

Above:  Sandeep Kambhampati presents "Connecting spatial organization of tissues to cell state and function using self-supervised machine learning"

 

Grace poster

Above:  Grace Moore presents "Extracellular vesicles of P. goldsteinii ASF519 may show biased loading of genetic material"

 

Alex

Above:  Alex Yenkin presents "Single-cell Analysis of Hypothalamic Organoids Modeling Prader-Willi Syndrome"

 

Shakson Isaac

Above:  Shakson Isaac presents "Evaluating Clinical Risk Factors in Type 2 Diabetes Through Genetic and Environmental Metabolomic and Lipidomic Readouts"

 

Daniel Ben-Isvy

Above:  Daniel Ben-Isvy presents "Characterizing the landscape of rare copy number variation across populations"

 

David Tang

Above:  David Tang presents "Factorizing polygenic epistasis improves prediction and uncovers biological pathways in complex traits"

 

 

 

 

 

2022 NHGRI Conference

BIG students and NHGRI trainees attended the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting - "Optimizing Scientific Communications", April 3-5, 2022 in Durham, NC.  

Group 2022

 

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Yasha

Yasha Ektefai gave a platform talk, "Mutational Data Split for Machine Learning Models that Predict Phenotype from Genotype"

 

 

 

 

 

2019 NHGRI Conference

 

BIG trainees presented and attended at the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting, April 7-9, 2019

 

2019 NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting 2019

The Annual Meeting is a venue for trainees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Genomic Sciences, Genomic Medicine and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) fields to present their research and form collaborations with other trainees and established researchers from training programs across the United States.

BIG attendees of the 2019 NHGRIBIG Students at 2019 NHGRIBIG Student at 2019 NHGRIBIG Student at 2019 NHGRIBIG Students Aparna Tiffany and Katy at 2019 NHGRI

2018 NHGRI Conference

BIG trainees presented at the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting,
March 18-20, 2018.
Katherine Lachance - PFinder

Alison Barton

Zack Chiang

Tiffany Amariuta

Vinayak Viswanadham

Gaurav Luthria

 

Jacob Luber

Many BIG students attended and presented posters at the annual NHGRI Training and Career Development Annual Meeting which was held at the University of California Los Angeles over March 18-20, 2018.
Presentations from the Harvard Medical School BIG trainees included:

  • Siranush Sarkizova presented her poster “Refining the rules of immune recognition to support selection of personalized tumor vaccine targets”
  • Alison Barton presented her poster “Somatic Mutation Rate of the X Chromosome in Non-Cancer Samples”
  • Eric Bartell presented his poster “Genetic studies of body proportion (sitting height ratio) shed light on the genetics and recent evolution of human skeletal growth”
  • Zack Chiang presented his poster “Computational Tools for In Situ Sequencing”
  • Tiffany Amariuta presented her poster, “Sites of transcriptional regulation mediated by T-bet tag SNPs that explain a large proportion of rheumatoid arthritis heritability”
  • Vinayak Viswanadham presented his poster “Correcting widespread Tn5 transposition bias in ATAC-seq footprinting”
  • Gaurav Luthria presented his poster “Towards Translational Deep Phenotyping: Quantitative Single Cell Imaging of In Vivo Tumor Morphology”
  • Katherine Lachance presented her poster “PFinder: A computational tool to identify genomic regions affected by perturbation”
  • Ryan Collins presented his poster “Rare copy-number variants in 102,257 humans highlight triplosensitive genes and noncoding cis-regulatory loci as risk factors in disease”
  • Jacob Luber presented his poster “Metagenomic and Functional Analysis of the Elite Athlete Identify a Performance-Promoting Microbiome”