Preliminary Program

Wednesday, Sept 22, 2021

12:00 - 12:10pm ET
Welcoming remarks from the organizers - Tuuli Lappalainen, New York Genome Center and Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University, USA  & Quincey Justman, Editor-in-Chief, Cell Systems
Session 1 (Keynote): The Human Genome Project at 20: What would you do again? What would you do differently? 
Chair – Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK 

12:10 - 12:50pm ET
Keynote, Eric Green, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) 

12:50 - 1:10pm ET 
Keynote, Melissa Gymrek, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

1:10 - 1:25pm ET 
Joint Questions 

5-minute break  
Session 2: How can understanding human genetic variation improve global health?
Chair – Bruce Korf, EiC of American Journal of Human Genetics

1:30 - 2:10pm ET
Sarah Tishkoff, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology, University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Penn Center for Global Genomics and Health Equity 

2:10 - 2:30pm ET 
Genevieve Wojcik, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

2:30 - 2:40pm ET
Joint Questions  

2:40 - 3:20pm ET
Panel Discussion: How do we balance openness in data sharing with privacy in the personal genome era?
Chair – Scott Behie, Scientific Editor, Cell & Quincey Justman, Editor-in-Chief, Cell Systems

Panelists: 
Joyce Tung, Vice President, Research 23andMe
Hoon Cho, Schmidt Fellow, Principal Investigator, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Eric Green, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sarah Tishkoff, David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Director of the Penn Center for Global Genomics and Health Equity
Genevieve Wojcik, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 

10-minute break 

Session 3: What makes us human? 
Chair – Scott Behie 

3:30 – 4:10pm ET 
Pontus Skoglund, Group leader, Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute 

4:10 - 4:30pm ET 
Qiaomei Fu, Professor and head of the Ancient DNA Lab at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

4:30 - 4:40pm ET
Joint Questions 

4:40-5:00pm ET 
Sponsored Workshop - Illumina

5:00 - 5:45pm ET
Panel Discussion/Q&A with speakers, panelists, and organizers: What are the most important emerging themes in human genomics? 
Chair – Scott Behie & Quincey Justman 

Concluding remarks - Scott Behie & Quincey Justman