NWIGM Events and Seminars
2012 Annual Retreat
The 4th Annual NWIGM Retreat will be held on Wednesday May 23rd 2012 from 8:00am - 2:00pm at the Waterfront Activities Center at the University of Washington. To register, please click here. More information will be available shortly, please check back soon. In the meantime, please ensure you are on our mailing list by becoming a NWIGM member.
8:30am - 9:30am
Stephen H. Friend, MD, PhD
President, Sage Bionetworks
"Building Better Models of Diseases Together"
9:30am - 10:00am
Brian Browning, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Genetics
"Using identity by descent relatedness in genetic analysis"
10:00am - 10:05am
New Projects:
Bruce Weir, PhD
Chair and Professor, Department of Biostatistics
"Statistical and Quantitative Genomics"
10:05am - 10:25am
Coffee & Networking Break
10:25-10:50am
New Projects (con't):
Holly Tabor, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Division of Bioethics
"Return of results from exome and whole genome sequencing studies."
Gail P. Jarvik, MD, PhD
Head and Professor, Division of Medical Genetics
"Whole exome sequencing of cancer patients"
Debbie Nickerson, PhD
Professor, Genome Sciences
"Center for Mendelian Genomics"
10:50am - 11:10am
Heather Mefford, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Division of Genetic Medicine
"Genomics and epilepsy"
11:10am - 11:30am
Michael Cunningham, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Craniofacial Medicine
Seattle Children's Research Institute
"Exome sequencing identifies genes involved in mandibular specification"
11:30am - 12:30am
Lunch
12:30pm -12:50pm
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch MD, FACMI
Acting Chair and Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
"Using clinical data repositories to identify cohorts and acquire biospecimens"
1:00pm - 1:20pm
David Crosslin, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Genome Sciences
"Early applications of the exome variant genotyping chip"
1:20pm - 1:40pm
Dan Doherty, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
"Chudley-McCullough Syndrome: a defect in asymmetric cell division?"
1:40pm - 2:00pm
Daniel Miller, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
"Epigenetic features of Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy"
