Beyond the Genome: Innovative Approaches to Molecular Diagnostics

Program Committee Moderator(s)

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  Sherin Shaaban, MD, PhD, FACMG

  Associate Professor of Pathology/Medical director of pharmacogenetics and molecular genetics
  University of Utah
  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Co-Moderator (Early Career)(s)

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  Ying-Chen Hou, PhD

  Clinical Laboratory Director
  The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  Columbus, Ohio, United States

Description: It is undebatable that there is a serious need for a more comprehensive understanding of molecular changes contributing to normal development, cellular response, and disease. Multiomics is a new approach where data from different omic strategies such as genomes, proteomes, transcriptomes and epigenomes are combined to present a more holistic understanding of biology and disease. In this session, speakers will address how proteomics, transcriptomics and epigenomics can be utilized to enhance our understanding of the normal and altered states of an organism and how to translate that into new treatment strategies

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Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM EST

  Decoding RNA Biology in Space: Toward the Future of Molecular Pathology
  

  Breakout Speaker: Rong Fan, PhD (he/him/his) – Yale University
• 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM EST

  Epigenomics in the Clinical Setting: How DNA Methylation Episignatures Aid Diagnosis of Genetic Disorders
  

  Breakout Speaker: Matthew L. Tedder, PhD (he/him/his) – Greenwood Genetic Center
• 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM EST

  Proteomic Approaches to Molecular Diagnostics
  

  Breakout Speaker: Michael Gillette, MA,MSc,MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard