Neuropsychiatric Disease Working Group Event:
Virtual Visit and Seminar
with
Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD
Director, National Institute of Mental Health
The event also includes NYGC faculty presentations.
Thursday, June 18, 2020
3:00 – 6:30 PM
Welcome and Introduction
 Thomas Lehner, PhD, MPH
Scientific Director,
Neuropsychiatric Disease Genomics
New York Genome Center
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“New frontiers in CRISPR pooled screens”
 Neville Sanjana, PhD
Core Faculty Member,
New York Genome Center
Assistant Professor of Biology,
New York University
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, NYU School of Medicine
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“Functional variations in the human genome: Lessons from the transcriptome”
 Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD
Core Faculty Member,
New York Genome Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
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“Probabilistic models of RNA splicing dysregulation in human genetic disease”
 David Knowles, PhD
Core Faculty Member,
New York Genome Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
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| “Dynamics of molecular pathology in ALS-FTD”
Hemali Phatnani, PhD
Director, Center for Genomics of Neurodegenerative Disease (CGND), New York Genome Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurogenetics, Department of Neurology, Columbia University
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“Autism Research at NYGC”
 Michael Zody, PhD
Scientific Director of Computational Biology, New York Genome Center
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“RNASeq in families with autism”
 Ivan Iossifov, PhD
Core Faculty Member,
New York Genome Center
Associate Professor,
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Seminar and Q&A
 Joshua A. Gordon, MD, PhD
Director,
National Institute of Mental Health
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Wrap -Up
 Tom Maniatis, PhD
Evnin Family Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer,
New York Genome Center
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