CVG Symposium 2022: Pioneers and Rising Stars ~ June 7, 2022

Session 1: Gene Regulation and Genomics (Chairperson: John Lis)

• Dr. Kathrin Plath
  Professor, Dept. of Biological Chemistry David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles
• Dr. Effie Apostolou
  Associate Professor of Molecular Biology in Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology
  Weill Cornell School of Medicine Cornell University

Session 2: Development and Genomics (Chairperson: Mariana Wolfner)

• Dr. Nenad Sestan
  Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience
  Professor of Comparative Medicine, of Genetics, and of Psychiatry
  Executive Director, Genome Editing Center
  Yale School of Medicine
  Yale University
• Dr. Carolyn Adler
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Molecular Medicine
  College of Veterinary Meidince
  Cornell University

Session 3: Disease and Genomics (Chairperson: Bob Weiss)

• Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade
  Associate Dean for Global Health
  Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
  Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics
  University of Chicago Medicine
• Dr. Charles Danko
  Associate Professor
  Department of Biomedical Sciences
  Baker Institute for Animal Health
  Cornell Univeristy

Session 4: Evolution and Population Genomics (Chairperson: Chip Aquadro)

• Dr. Brenna Henn
  Associate Professor
  Department of Anthropology
  Genome Center
  University of California, Davis
• Dr. Ilana Brito
  Assistant Professor
  Mong Family Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
  Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
  Cornell Univeristy