Each year in January, the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics meets in New York City to plan the next year’s volume. We realized that this provides a unique opportunity to showcase the research expertise of our committee members coupled with local scientists. Towards that end, we have decided to convene a day-long Genomics and Human Genetics Symposium the day prior to the annual committee meeting.

Register for NYU Langone’s Genomics and Human Genetics: The New York Symposium. We are currently accepting submissions for research posters. The submission deadline is January 15.

Meeting Schedule

The following is the schedule for Genomics and Human Genetics: The New York Symposium. This joint symposium is co-organized by Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, and Eric Green, MD, PhD, director of the National Human Genome Research Institue at the National Insitutes of Health (NIH). Download the 2024 program.

Friday, January 26, 2024

8:30AM–8:50AM
Opening Remarks
Aravinda Chakravarti, PhD
Director, Center for Human Genetics and Genomics, NYU Langone

Session I

8:50AM–9:20AM
“Expanding Studies of Global Genomic Diversity with Complete, Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Assemblies"
Karen Miga, PhD
Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

9:20AM–9:50AM
“Unlocking the Genome’s Regulatory Code”
Bing Ren, PhD
Director, Center for Epigenomics, UC San Diego

9:50AM–10:20AM
“Throwing Light on Gene Regulation from the Non-Coding Genome”
Wendy Bickmore, PhD
Director, MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh

10:20AM–10:50AM
Coffee Break

Session II

10:50AM–11:20AM
“Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease: Advances in Science and Health in Africa”
Julie Makani, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator, Sickle Cell Programme, Muhumbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

11:20AM–11:50AM
“Friedreich Ataxia: For Disease Mechanisms to Clinical Trials in Patients”
Arnold Munnich, MD, PhD
President, Imagine Foundation, Imagine Institute for Genetic Disease, Hospital Necker

11:50AM–12:12PM
“Engineering Specific Aneuploidies to Study Their Role in Cancer and Congenital Disorders”
Teresa Davoli, PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone

12:20PM
Lunch

12:20PM–2:10PM
Poster Session with Coffee

Session III

2:10PM–2:40PM
“High-fidelity DNA Sequencing of the Single-Strand Origins of Mutations”
Gilad D. Evrony, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Human Genetics & Genomics, NYU Langone

2:40PM–3:10PM
“The Dark Matter Project”
Jef D. Boeke, PhD
Director, Institute of System Genetics, NYU Langone

3:10PM–3:40PM
“What Genome Scientists Should Know About Certificates of Confidentiality since the 21st Century Cures Act”
Pilar Ossorio, PhD
Professor of Law and Bioethics, Morgridge Investigator and Ethics Program Lead

3:40PM–4:00PM
Closing Remarks
Eric Green, MD, PhD
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health