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