KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2022
HudsonAlpha Faculty Investigator Jeremy Schmutz is co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center (GSC), one of the few centers in the world performing original sequencing of plants. As co-director, Schmutz leads a team of experts in whole-genome sequencing, library construction, genome analysis, computational biology, evolutionary genomics, and informatics. JEREMY SCHMUTZ
Learning to love the complexity of plant genomes
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2022
Heather Mefford is a full member of the faculty at St. Jude’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She runs a research laboratory dedicated to gene discovery in pediatric disease, with a major focus on pediatric epilepsies. Her work uses cutting edge genomic technologies and has helped define the genetic landscape of developmental and epileptic encephalopathies with studies reporting novel copy number variants and numerous novel disease-causing genes. She was a co-PI for several of the Epi4K consortium projects and co-chairs the ClinGen Neurodevelopmental Disorder Clinical Domain Working Group and Epilepsy Gene Curation Working Group. HEATHER MEFFORD
Epilepsy genetics and the promise of precision medicine
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