September 19
Travis Osterman, DO, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“From Data Standards to Discovery: Making Clinical Data Available for Research”
September 26
Hilary Martin, PhD
Group Leader in Human Genetics
The Wellcome Sanger Institute
“The False Dichotomy of Complex Versus Mendelian Diseases: Impact of Consanguinity on Common Disease and of Polygenicrisk on Rare Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
October 3
Jada Benn Torres, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Genetics, Race, Genetic Ancestry
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Genetics, Identity and the Conundrum of Race in Biosciences”
October 17
Timothy J Hohman, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Precision Medicine Approaches in Alzheimer’s Disease”
October 24
John A. Phillips III, MD
David T. Karzon Professor of Pediatrics
Professor, Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine
Co-PI, Vanderbilt Center for Undiagnosed Diseases
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Cases at VUMC”
November 8
Jessica Dennis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Genetics
at the University of British Columbia
Investigator at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
“Longitudinal analysis of biobank data to achieve precision health across the life course”
November 14
Dr. Stephen Burgess
Programme Leader, Medical Research Council, Biostatistics Unit
University of Cambridge
“Phenotypic heterogeneity: exploring mechanisms in a Mendelian randomization framework”
November 28
Merry Lynn McDonald, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Genomics of Musculoskeletal Disease: Osteoarthritis and Cachexia in COPD”
December 5
Chai-Ann Ng, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
“Functional testing in channelopathies”
December 12
Ryan Dhindsa, MD PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Population-level Multi-omics for Precision Medicine”
December 19
Terry Jo V. Bichell, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology
Founder/Director, COMBINEDBrain
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Current Progress in Meaningful Treatments for Rare Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
January 9
Andrew Stergachis, MD, PhD, FACMG
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Medical Genetics
Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences
University of Washington
“Resolving how non-coding genetic variants cause Mendelian conditions”
January 23
Andrew Landstrom, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Duke University School of Medicine
“The genomic era of pediatric cardiovascular medicine: From predicting those at-risk of sudden cardiac arrest to the development of new therapies”
January 30
Alexander Gusev, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Population Sciences,
Harvard Medical School & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“Learning germline influences on immunotherapy outcomes from thousands of sequenced tumors”
February 6
Willow Coyote-Maestas, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Therapeutic sciences
University of California, San Francisco
“Determining at scale how mutations within membrane proteins alter physiology and cause disease”
February 13
Amy Curry Sturm, MS, CGC
Director, Genomic Health Programs and Medical Affairs
23andMe
“One Genetic Counselor's Journey Toward Scaling Preventive Genomics for All”
February 20
Beth Malow, MD, MS
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics
Burry Chair in Cognitive Childhood Development
Director, Sleep Disorders Division
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
“Sleep Problems in Autism: Causes, Consequences, and New Directions”
February 27
Jessica Lasky-Su, DSc, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Statistician and Epidemiologist
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
“Realizing Precision Medicine through AI and multi-omics"
March 5
Amit R. Majithia, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
"Genomics and Personalized Medicine for Insulin Resistance Related Diseases"
March 19
Iuliana Ionita-Laza, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
“Genetic analysis methods at biobank scale”
April 2
Kelan Tantisira, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Respiratory Medicine
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
"Precision Medicine for Asthma: Progress and Potential Pitfalls"
April 9
Marijana Vujkovic, PhD, MSCE
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
“Advances in Precision Medicine: Leveraging Multi-Omics and Real-World Data for
Personalized Disease Risk Assessment and Drug Repurposing”
April 16
Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD
Department Vice Chair, Computational Medicine
Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Professor, Human Genetics
Professor, Computational Medicine
University of California Los Angeles
“Polygenic risk scores for personalized medicine: promises and challenges”
April 23
Robert A. Hegele, MD FRCPC Cert Endo FACP
Jacob J. Wolfe Distinguished Medical Research Chair
Martha Blackburn Chair in Cardiovascular Research
Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario
“Genetic determinants of plasma lipids”