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
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