The Program in Genetics and Genomics Annual Symposium

Date and Time

April 11, 2016
01:30PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Harvard Medical School, Goldenson Building, Room 122, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

Program concludes with a poster session with wine and cheese from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Courtyard Cafe.  The Symposium is sponsored by the Division of Medical Sciences W. Eugene Knox III Memorial Lectureship Fund.  Open to the public - all are welcome!

Program:

Former Student Speakers:

David Chan, California Institute of Technology
Mitochondria as dynamic organelles

Suzanne Paradis, Brandeis University
Sema4D drives the rapid assembly of GABAergic synapses

 Andrew Goodman, Yale University
Competition and cooperation in the human gut microbiome

Current Student Speakers:

Alexander Meeske,  Rudner Laboratory, HMS
A widespread new family of bacterial cell wall polymerases”

 Kaitlin Samocha, Daly Laboratory, HMS
Using large reference-population call-sets to prioritize observed variation in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders