Speaker articles

• Take a look at what our esteemed invited speakers have published recently and chat with them about their research at the symposium in San Diego, CA, in September.

  Keynote speakers

  Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University, USA
  Best practices for multi-ancestry, meta-analytic transcriptome-wide association studies: Lessons from the Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative
  
  William Greenleaf, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
  Single-molecule states link transcription factor binding to gene expression
  
  Speakers

  Han Brunner, Radboud University, The Netherlands
  The landscape of autosomal-recessive pathogenic variants in European populations reveals phenotype-specific effects
  
  David Comas, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
  Genetic origins, singularity, and heterogeneity of Basques
  
  David Enard, University of Arizona, USA
  An ancient viral epidemic involving host coronavirus interacting genes more than 20,000 years ago in East Asia
  
  Segun Fatumo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
  Bridging genomics’ greatest challenge: The diversity gap
  
  Kelly Frazer, University of California San Diego, USA
  Multiomic QTL mapping reveals phenotypic complexity of GWAS loci and prioritizes putative causal variants
  
  Daniel Geschwind, University of California Los Angeles, USA
  Cross-disorder and disease-specific pathways in dementia revealed by single-cell genomics  
  
  Eimear Kenny, Mount Sinai Institute for Genomic Health, USA
  The NYCKidSeq randomized controlled trial: Impact of GUÍA digitally enhanced genetic results disclosure in diverse families
  
  Jan Korbel, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
  Long-read sequencing of diagnosis and post-therapy medulloblastoma reveals complex rearrangement patterns and epigenetic signatures
  
  Xiaole Shirley Liu, GV20 Therapeutics, USA
  Expression patterns of MCM8 in lung adenocarcinoma and its correlation with key biological processes
  
  Paul Mischel, Stanford Medicine, USA
  Extrachromosomal DNA in the cancerous transformation of Barrett’s oesophagus
  
  Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA
  Quick and effective approximation of in silico saturation mutagenesis experiments with first-order taylor expansion
  
  Päivi Pajukanta, University of California Los Angeles, USA
  An abdominal obesity missense variant in the adipocyte thermogenesis gene TBX15 is implicated in adaptation to cold in Finns
  
  Bogdan Pasaniuc, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  Calibrated prediction intervals for polygenic scores across diverse contexts
  
  Lluis Quintana-Murci, Institut Pasteur, France
  Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe
  
  Peter Van Loo, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
  Aneuploidy and complex genomic rearrangements in cancer evolution
  
  Chen Wu, National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China
  Epithelial cells activate fibroblasts to promote esophageal cancer development