Home| Important Dates| Speakers| Program| Accommodations| Sponsors| Abstract Submission| Location Directions| Register
Program (subject to change)
DAY 1: Nov-1
TimeDurationDescriptionSpeaker and Institution
9:300:30Arrival and Registration 
10:000:05Opening RemarksLars Steinmetz (Stanford University)
SESSION 1 - Ami Bhatt (session chair)
10:050:15"From Basic Discovery to Bedside: the power of collaborating for precision health"Lloyd Minor (Stanford University)
10:200:15"Biomedical research at EMBL"Iain Mattaj (EMBL)
10:350:25"Human gut microbes for diagnosis and treatment: Individuality and temporal variation"Peer Bork (EMBL)
11:000:15"Personalized omics, digital monitoring, real-time data feedback, and coaching lead to improvements in health"Riitta Sallinen (FIMM)
11:150:25"The Human Protein Atlas - a resource for biology and precision medicine"Emma Lundberg (KTH)
11:400:15"Connecting chromatin variation to phenotype in humans"Hunter Fraser (Stanford University)
11:550:15"Interpretation of rare variation influencing multiple molecular phenotypes"Nicole Ferraro (Stanford University)
12:101:20Lunch 
SESSION 2 - Peer Bork (session chair)
13:300:25"Practicing medicine with precision with new therapies, diagnostics and insights into disease discovered within a trillion points of data"Atul Butte (UCSF)
13:550:25"Use of iPSC technology for personalized medicine"Hiro Nakauchi (Stanford University)
14:200:15"A balance of genomic instability, tumor-immune topography and TGF-β signaling governs response to PD-L1 blockade in metastatic urothelial cancer"Dorothee Nickles (Genentech/Roche)
14:350:15

The Swedish SCAPIS SciLifeLab (S3) wellness profiling study

Ina Schuppe Koistinen (Karolinska Institute)
14:500:25"From gene regulatory elements to understanding disease machanisms"Judith Zaugg (EMBL)
15:150:30Coffee Break 
SESSION 3 - Judith Zaugg (session chair)
15:450:25"Evolving ethical concerns in evolving personalized health"Henry Greely (Stanford University)
16:100:15"Investigation of congenital von Willebrand factor gain-of-function mutations with increased risk of myocardial infarction"Matthias Wilmanns (EMBL)
16:250:25"Future directions in clinical genomics"Jason Merker (Stanford University) 
16:500:60Panel DiscussionAmi Bhatt (Stanford University), Ronald Davis (Stanford University), Helen Messier (Viome), Ursheet Parikh (Mayfield). Moderator: Mike Snyder (Stanford University)
DAY 2:  Nov-2
SESSION 4 - Raeka Aiyar (session chair)
9:000:25"Personal regulome navigation"Howard Chang (Stanford University)
9:250:25"Discoveries and opportunities for translation using Vanderbilt's Gexe X Medical Phenome Catalog"Nancy Cox (Vanderbilt University)
9:500:15"A flow and metabolism based drug screening platform for patient leukemia samples"Alicia Kaestli (ETHZ)
10:050:25"Genotypic variability and the quantitative proteotype"Ruedi Aebersold (ETHZ)
10:300:30Coffee Break 
11:000:25"Genetic architecture and adaptation of human complex traits"Jonathan Pritchard (Stanford University)
11:250:25"Personal Epigenomes: Implications for basic biology and human health"Joseph Ecker (Salk)
11:500:15"Molecular characterization of N-Glycanase 1 deficient cell lines shows protein aggregation"William Mueller (EMBL)
12:051:30Lunch 
SESSION 5 - Min Noh (session chair)
13:350:25"Understanding gene-drug interactions in primary tumors."Wolfgang Huber (EMBL)
14:000:25"Quantifying and forcasting tumor evolution"Christina Curtis (Stanford University)
14:250:30Flash talks for posters (15 talks - 2 mins/ea) 
14:552:00POSTER SESSION II 
SESSION 6 - Carlos Bustamante (session chair)
16:550:25"Upcoming innovations in translational research"Lars Steinmetz (Stanford University)
17:200:25"Big data for precision health"Mike Snyder (Stanford University)
17:452:00Reception 
DAY 3: Nov-3
SESSION 7 - Christina Curtis (session chair)
9:000:25
"From genomic variation to molecular mechanism"
Jan Korbel (EMBL)
9:250:25"Improving healthcare through biomedical data science"

Carlos Bustamante (Stanford University)

9:500:25"You, your microbes, your health"David Relman (Stanford University)
10:150:30Coffee Break 
10:450:25"Big data in biology: opportunities and challenges"Ewan Birney (EMBL)
11:100:15"Complex host-microbial dynamics in prediabetes revleaed through longitudinal multi-omics profiling"Wenyu Zhou (Stanford University)
11:250:15"Multi-omics factor analysis disentangles heterogeneity in blood cancer"Britta Velten (EMBL)
11:400:25"2,978 Days & the Race to Cure NGLY1"Matt Wilsey (Grace Science Foundation)
12:051:30Lunch 
SESSION 8 - Ewan Birney (session chair)
13:350:25"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome"Ronald Davis (Stanford University)
14:000:25"LSD1 mutation study"Min Noh (EMBL)
14:250:25"Drugs and bugs - Genomic plasticity in the metagenome"Ami Bhatt (Stanford University)
14:500:15"A mechanism for netrin mediated adhesion: possible implications for tumor metastasis"Rob Meijers (EMBL)
15:050:25"Single molecule arrays for ultrasensitive protein detection"David Walt (Harvard Medical School)
15:300:30Coffee Break 
SESSION 9 - Polly Fordyce (session chair)
16:000:25"Human Organs on Chips: A new tool for advancing personalized medicine"Donald Ingber (Harvard University)
16:250:15"Therapeutic drug repositioning using personalized proteomics of Liquid Biopsies"Vinit Mahajan (Stanford University)
16:400:25"Applying microfluidics to link molecular genotype with phenotype in high-throughput"Polly Fordyce (Stanford University)
17:050:25"Cell statues in the tumor ecosystem and the transitions between them"Dana Pe'er (MSKCC)
17:300:25"Multi-omics association genetics in human induced pluripotent stem cells"Oliver Stegle (EMBL)
17:550:15Closing remarks 
DAY 4: Nov-4
Departure