Genetics Training Program: Alumni Seminars Archive

April 21, 2025
Christine Beck, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences
University of Connecticut Health Center & The Jackson Lab for Genomic Medicine
“Repetitive Sequences Drive Genomic Instability and Evolution”

July 17, 2024

• Alexandre Daly, PhD
  Senior Data Scientist; Vanguard

• Jennifer Mason, PhD
  Associate Professor; Clemson University

• Heather McLaughlin, PhD, FACMG, NYCOQ, CGMB
  Senior Director, Molecular Diagnostics, Pharming

• So Hae (Irene) Park, PhD, CMPP
  Senior Manager, Oncology Publications; AbbVie

Career Panel with Human Genetics Ph.D. Program Graduates

April 25, 2023
Cheryl Jacobs, Ph.D.
Health Science Policy Analyst, Division of Scientific Data Sharing Policy, Office of Science Policy, Office of the Director, NIH
"Science Beyond the Bench"

November 21, 2022
Jeremy Schroeder, Ph.D.
Research Investigator, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School
"RNA:DNA Hybrids Cause Genome Instability Through Nucleobase Deamination, Genomic Rearrangements, and Induction of the DNA Damage Response"

September 19, 2016
Reid Alisch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health
“Defining the epigenetic origins of mental illness”

March 14, 2016
Heather McLaughlin, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G.
Senior Clinical Scientist, Exome and Cardiology, GeneDx
“Ending diagnostic odysseys with whole exome sequencing”

May 11, 2015
Anne Casper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology, Eastern Michigan University
“Energy, enthusiasm and excellence: Research with undergraduates at EMU”