NHGRI Division of Intramural Research Seminar

Thursday, December 14 | 2 – 3 p.m. | Bethesda, MD & Online

The Division of Intramural Research (DIR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers celebrating genetics and genomics research. Speakers are selected by NHGRI intramural faculty and trainees and cover research topics of interest to a wide audience.

All seminars are free and open to the public. Seminar titles and other details are updated on the NHGRI website as information becomes available.

Speaker:
Marius Wernig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Hosts: William Gahl, May Christine Malicdan and Marie Morimoto

View past presentations, learn more about upcoming seminars, and register to attend on the NHGRI website.

NHGRI Division of Intramural Research Seminar

Monday, October 30 | 2 – 3 p.m. | Bethesda, MD & Online

The Division of Intramural Research (DIR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers celebrating genetics and genomics research. Speakers are selected by NHGRI intramural faculty and trainees and cover research topics of interest to a wide audience.

All seminars are free and open to the public. Seminar titles and other details are updated on the NHGRI website as information becomes available.

Speaker:
Matthew Hurles, FMedSci, FRS
Director, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Co-Host:
Eric Green, NHGRI Office of the Director

View past presentations, learn more about upcoming seminars, and register to attend on the NHGRI website.

NHGRI Division of Intramural Research Seminar

Thursday, September 21 | 2 – 3 p.m. | Bethesda, MD & Online

The Division of Intramural Research (DIR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers celebrating genetics and genomics research. Speakers are selected by NHGRI intramural faculty and trainees and cover research topics of interest to a wide audience.

All seminars are free and open to the public. Seminar titles and other details are updated on the NHGRI website as information becomes available.

Speaker:
Brittany Adamson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
Princeton University

Hosts: Meru Sadhu and Annette Iturralde Guerrero

View past presentations, learn more about upcoming seminars, and register to attend on the NHGRI website.

Scientists release a new human “pangenome” reference

Posted on by Alexis

Researchers have released a new high-quality collection of reference human genome sequences that captures substantially more diversity from different human populations than what was previously available. The work was led by the international Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, a group funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

The new “pangenome” reference includes genome sequences of 47 people, with the researchers pursuing the goal of increasing that number to 350 by mid-2024. With each person carrying a paired set of chromosomes, the current reference actually includes 94 distinct genome sequences, with a goal of reaching 700 distinct genome sequences by the completion of the project.

Read the full press release on the NHGRI website.

NHGRI Division of Intramural Research Seminar

Thursday, June 22 | 2 – 3 p.m. | Bethesda, MD & Online

The Division of Intramural Research (DIR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers celebrating genetics and genomics research. Speakers are selected by NHGRI intramural faculty and trainees and cover research topics of interest to a wide audience.

All seminars are free and open to the public. Registration is required for the webinar.

June 22 Speaker:

Harmit Malik, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Director
Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

View past presentations and learn more about upcoming seminars on the DIR seminar series website.

NHGRI National DNA Day 20th Anniversary Symposium

Tuesday, April 25 | 9 a.m. – 4:30 pm. ET | Online & Bethesda, MD

On National DNA Day this year, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will host a symposium to commemorate two special milestones: the 20th anniversary of the Human Genome Project’s completion and the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix.

Join NHGRI to explore the evolution and future of genomics research, learn about the greater impacts of genomics on society and discover the wide array of careers in genetics and genomics — from scientists to social media specialists!

The program will conclude with the annual Louise M. Slaughter National DNA Day Lecture.

This event is free and open to the public. Join in person or virtually.

Learn more and register on the National DNA Day symposium website.

Leveraging Genomics to Address Health Disparities in Rare Diseases and Cancer Screenings

Thursday, February 16 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. ET | Online & Bethesda, MD

C. Jimmy Lin, M.D., Ph.D., MHS is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rare Genomics (RG) Institute, an international non-profit founded in 2011 to enable any community to leverage cutting-edge biotechnology to advance understanding of rare diseases. Dr. Lin is also the Chief Scientific Officer at Freenome, working on early diagnostic of cancers. Prior to Freenome, he was the Chief Scientific Officer, Oncology at Natera where he led the development of new diagnostic technologies for cancer.

Before his career in private industry, Dr. Lin led the ClinOmics program at the National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI) and was a research instructor at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Lin earned his MD and PhD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Master of Health Science from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, creating genome-wide maps of breast, colorectal, pancreatic, glioblastoma, medulloblastoma, and melanoma cancers, as well as mapping the genome of an anaerobic bacteria that is used as anti-tumor therapy. He is a 2016 Senior TED Fellow and a 2016 WIRED Innovation Fellow and has been featured in several media outlets, including Forbes, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and TIME Magazine.

Register on the NGHRI Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series website.