Program
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 How to Help your Grant Stand outProfessor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa |
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Panel Presentation: Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower Manager, Research Grant Development, SPARC (Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity) Division of the VP Research & Innovation Offic, UBC |
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 How to Write your CVAssistant Professor and Clinical Geneticist, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa |
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Panel Assistant Professor and Clinical Geneticist, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa |
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(Includes food and beverage) |
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Joint Symposium – PreNatal |
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 PresentationAssociate Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal |
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 Molecular Diagnosis of Hereditary Syndromes and Cancer Using Genomic DNA MethylationPost-Doctoral Associate, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Ontario Poster: 19 |
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Chair Jinko Graham Simon Fraser University
 Data integration and modelling – three examplesSenior Investigator, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research  Predictive ModelingProfesseure adjointe, Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université Laval  Using Electronic Health Record-Based Genomic Approaches to Understand the Relationship Between Mental and Physical HealthPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center  Sampling Partial Genealogies Using Sequential Importance SamplingStatistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University Poster: 4 Smooth Modelling of Covariate Effects in Bisulfite Sequencing-derived Measures of DNA MethylationPhD student, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University Poster: 37 |
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Chair Gustavo Turecki McGill University
 Understanding brain disorders through functional genomicsPostdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Michigan  Clinical applications of psychiatric genetics: from molecular genetics to the worlds first specialist psychiatric genetic counseling clinicGenetic Counsellor and Clinical Assistant Professor, Translational Psychiatric Genetics Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia Epigenetic Regulation by Child AbuseProfessor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University  GWAS Based Prediction of Antidepressant Response in Major Depressive Disorder Using Machine Learning ModelsPost-doc, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Poster: 34  Ribosome Profiling and Translatome Sequencing of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex of Suicide Completers with a History of Early Life AdversityMaster's Student, Human Genetics, McGill University Poster: 46 |
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Joint Symposium – Nephrogenetics |
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 PresentationProfessor, Depts. of Paediatrics, Physiology, Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto |
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Genome-scale Modeling of Regulatory Networks that Govern mRNA Stability and their Implication in CancerPhD Student, Human Genetics, McGill University Poster: 8  Genomic Prediction of Osteoporosis Using 426,000 Individuals from UK BiobankMaster of Science Student, Human Genetics, McGill University Poster: 35 |
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Chair Yohan Bossé Laval University
 Standards and Guidelines for the Interpretation of Sequence VariantsClinical Molecular Genetics Fellow, , Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program, Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine, Harvard University  Variants of Uncertain Significance in a Real Clinical SettingClinician Scientist, Sinai Health System  Genomic and Environmental Risk Factors of Atopic Childhood AsthmaPhD Candidate, Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University Poster: 24  Association of Common and Rare GCH1 Variants with Parkinson’s DiseaseM.Sc. Student, Human Genetics, McGill University Poster: 44 |
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ChairVardit Ravitsky Université de Montréal
Gene EditingAssociate Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal  Whole Genome/Exome Sequencing: Issues Related to Reporting of Results and CounselingScientist and Assistant Professor, BC Cancer and University of British Columbia |
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Future of GWAS “Do we have too many hits?”
 The Omnigenic model for complex traits and diseaseAssistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago  Multiple GWAS Hits Inform Disease MechanismsUniversity of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children  GWAS: back to the futureAssociate Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University  Genome Wide Meta-analysis of Parent-of-origin Effects of Asthma, Atopy and Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Four CohortsUniversity of British Columbia Poster: 14  Revealing Old and New Population Structures in Large CohortsPhD Student, Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University Poster: 22 Implementing Exomes Data to the Clinic: Cancer Diagnosis and Rare Diseases
 Focus on Cancer DiagnosisDirector of Research and Professor, Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University  Patient and system impacts of genomic sequencing in pediatricsScientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, University of Toronto  TRPV4, KRAS, and FGFR1 Gain-of-function Mutations Drive Giant Cell Lesions of the JawPhD Candidate, Human Genetics, McGill University Poster: 16  Enrichment of Rare Protein Truncating Variants in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisPostdoctoral research fellow, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Poster: 1 |
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Joint Symposium – Precision Genomics |
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Chair Judy Chernos University of Calgary
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