June 15, 2020
Video Highlights from TAGC 2020 Online

From April 22–25, TAGC 2020 Online brought scientists from multiple research communities together to share their research and stay connected. Videos from select TAGC cross-community sessions are now available on YouTube. Those who weren’t able to participate in the conference in April, check out the recordings below!
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Speakers:
- Scott Barolo, University of Michigan Medical School: Inclusive PhD Admissions
- Andrea Darby, Cornell University: The Diversity Preview Weekend
- Gary McDowell, Lightoller LLC: World’s for Diversity and Inclusion
- Jennifer Alexander, Fox Chase Cancer Center: The Inclusion of Dietary Practices in Genetics Research
- Crystal Tsosie, Turtle Mountain Community College: Building an Indigenous Bio Bank
Genetic Technology in Practice
Speakers:
- Kenneth Bruno, Zymergen Inc.: Fungal Genetics and Automated Strain Engineering
- Eli Rodgers-Melnick, Corteva Agriscience: Making the Most of our Molecules
- Celia Payne, Dupont: Development of Robust Yeast Strains for the Corn-Ethanol Industry
- Julia Alterman, Atalanta Therapeutics: Divalent siRNA Scaffold for Robust Gene Modulation in the Central Nervous System
- Janis Weeks, InVivo Biosystems: Cutting Edge Genome Editing and Phenotyping Tools
COVID-19 Response from the NSF and NIH (Q&A)
NSF Speakers:
- Joanne Tornow, Assistant Director Biological Services
- Matt Olson, Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology
- Manju Hingorani, Program Director, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
NIH Speakers:
- Michael Lauer, Director, Office of Extramural Research
- Jodi Black, Deputy Director, Office of Extramural Research
Education
Speakers:
- Julie Hall, Lincoln Memorial University: The Impact of Collaborative Instruction on Molecular Genetics and Mammalogy Students
- Rochelle Tractenberg, Georgetown University: Promoting Learning and Learner-Centered Teaching of Genetics and Bioinformatics
- Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: The Genomics Education Alliance: Scalable, Sustainable Infrastructure for CUREs
- Rebecca Burgess, Stevenson University: Crowd-Sourcing CRISPR to Investigate the Impact of Chromatin Environment on Double-Strand Break Repair
- Teresa Lee, Emory University: The Pipeline CURE: A Curriculum Wide-Approach to Introduce Students to Research
- Luke Ziegler, North Hennepin Community College: Performance Enhanced Biology
Direct Collaborations: Model Organism Researchers and Clinicians
Speakers:
- Ada Hamosh, Johns Hopkins University: The Essential Role of Model Organisms for Functional Studies of Genes and Variants Linked to Human Diseases: Part 1, Part 2
- Hugo Bellen, Baylor College of Medicine, Solving Difficult to Diagnose Diseases using Flies and Zebrafish
- Philip Hieter, University of British Columbia: The Canadian National Network of Clinician and Model Scientists: Rare Diseases: Models and Mechanisms
- Lauryl Nutter, The Center for Phenogenomics: Leveraging the IMPC in Collaborative Research
- Andy Golden, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics: Modeling Rare and Neglected Human Diseased in C.elegans
- Alex Parker, University of Montreal: A Model Organism-based Drug Discovery Pipeline for ALS
- Shinya Yamamoto, Baylor College of Medicine: Strategies and Resources to Facilitate Collaborations between Clinicians and Model Organism Researchers on a Global Scale