Draft as of 08/17/2023
All listed times are US Eastern time
Increasing Global Diversity in Genomics
August 17, 2023
10:00 – 10:15am Welcome
Dana Crawford, PhD, Professor
Scott Williams, PhD, Professor
Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
10:15 – 11:00am Leveraging population diversity to learn about the genetic basis of health and disease
Samira Asgari, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
11:00 – 11:45am Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias across the Americas
Giuseppe Tosto, MD, Assistant Professor
Neurological Sciences
Columbia University
11:45 – 1:15pm Lunch
1:15 – 2:00pm Genetic risk of prostate cancer across diverse multi-ancestry populations
Burcu Darst, PhD, Assistant Professor
Public Health Science Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:00 – 2:45pm Pharmacogenomic variation in the Malagasy population: implications for the antimalarial drug primaquine metabolism
Estee Cramer, MPH
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2:45 – 3:00pm Break
3:00 – 3:45pm Computational Geospatial Approaches to Reconstruct the Historic Internal Migrations of Africans and the Origins of Africans during the Millennia of Enslavement
Fatimah Jackson, PhD, Professor
BiologyHoward University
3:00 – 3:45pm Leading by example: increasing diversity in Parkinson’s disease genetic studies
Ignacio Mata, PhD, Assistant Professor
3:45 – 4:15pm Speaker Panel Discussion
4:30pm – ’til Reception