Part 1 - VSC (NRB) 350 (3rd floor), 12:30pm

Opening remarks: Scott Kennedy and Kamila Naxerova, PGG directors

12:40 Keynote Talk: Kaitlin Samocha, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH; Broad Institute

Studying patterns of rare genetic variation in humans to improve variant interpretation

introduced by Elise Robinson

1:20 Student Talk: Sebastian Degner, PhD candidate in Naxerova Lab

Tracing Somatic Evolution with Polyguanine Sequencing

introduced by Kamila Naxerova

1:40 Student Talk: Brianna Diaz-Pacheco, recent graduate of the Colaiacovo Lab

LEX-1 regulates germline transcription and meiotic double-strand break distribution in Caenorhabditis elegans

introduced by Monica Colaiacovo

2:05 Flash Talks from G4+ students

Part 2 - VSC (NRB) 350 (3rd floor), 2:30pm

2:30 Flash Talks from G4+ students

2:40 Student Talk: Roberto Sotomayor, PhD candidate in Moazed Lab

Disordered domains of Heterochromatin Protein 1 mediate epigenetic spreading and inheritance

introduced by Danesh Moazed

3:00 Student Talk: Noel Jackson, PhD candidate in Miller Lab

Single-cell functional profiles associated with tau pathology in familial and sporadic frontotemporal lobar degeneration

introduced by Michael Miller

3:25 Keynote Talk: Amy Shyer and Alan Rodrigues, Laboratory of Morphogenesis, The Rockefeller University

Beyond molecular codes, blueprints and programs: tissue patterning through organic self-organization

introduced by Susan Dymecki

Social Hour at 5:10 at VSC (NRB) 1031 Sky Lounge (next to the poster session)

Best poster and best flash talk prizes

Program in Genetics and Genomics

PhD program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Harvard Division of Medical Sciences

https://pgg.hsites.harvard.edu/