ASHG 2024 Featured Symposium Schedule
Featured Symposia, formerly known as Invited Sessions, are member-proposed sessions addressing the state of the science on a specific topic of interest. Each 90-minute session is comprised of four talks typically followed by Q&A or panel discussion. Featured Symposia are open to all scientific attendees at the Annual Meeting.
Thursday, November 7
8:00 am – 9:30 am
Session Title: Contributions of tandem repeats to human variation, traits, and disease (Panel)
Topic: Genetic, Genomic, and Epigenomic Resources and Databases
Track: Basic or Translational Research; Clinical Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Advances in artificial intelligence tools to improve clinical diagnoses and medical genetics education with an emphasis on diverse datasets
Topic: Mendelian Phenotypes
Track: Basic or Translational Research; Clinical Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: The Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP): A paradigm for identifying genetically driven therapeutics for a global complex disease (Panel)
Topic: Complex Traits
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Human genetic mosaicism: Diversity within individuals (Panel)
Topic: Molecular Effects of Genetic Variation
Track: Basic or Translational Research; Clinical Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: AJHG at 75: Looking to the future of human genetics research (Panel)
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: TOPMed 10-year anniversary: Ongoing success and future directions (Panel)
Topic: Complex Traits
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Balancing open science and patient privacy in the era of precision medicine (Panel)
Topic: Genetic Counseling, ELSI, Education, and Health Services Research
Track: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications; Other
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Unveiling genetic mysteries: RNA editing’s breakthrough in disease and gene therapy (Panel)
Topic: Molecular Effects of Genetic Variation
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Friday, November 8
8:00 am – 9:30 am
Session Title: Face the facts: The impact of advances in data science on translational research (Panel)
Topic: Genetic, Genomic, and Epigenomic Resources and Databases
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: How do we describe and ascribe clinical significance to the non-coding genome? (Panel)
Topic: Molecular Effects of Genetic Variation
Track: Basic or Translational Research; Clinical Research
Audience: Clinicians
Session Title: Cross-examining the rare and common variant architecture of psychiatric conditions, brain structure, and function
Topic: Complex Traits
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Model organisms to the rescue: Next generation animal models for precise phenotyping of complex and undiagnosed diseases
Topic: Molecular Effects of Genetic Variation
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Not only transcription intermediates: The roles of R-loops in genome stability and brain disease
Topic: Epigenetics
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Improving health equity in genomics: Interventions and implementation efforts to address disparities in genetic services research (Panel)
Topic: Genetic Counseling, ELSI, Education, and Health Services Research
Track: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: Aging, clonal hematopoiesis, and our health (Panel)
Topic: Evolutionary and Population Genetics
Track: Basic or Translational Research; Clinical Research
Audience: Researchers
Session Title: For the children: Genomics to improve the health of pediatric patients and their families (Panel)
Topic: Omics Technologies
Track: Basic or Translational Research
Audience: Researchers