Fourteenth Symposium ~ July 24, 2020

Virtual Symposium
8:00am – 5:30pm

In 2020, due to COVID-19, the CVG Symposium was held virtually with a full day of online activities. The event included lectures by an inspiring group of accomplished scientists, a blitz-style poster session, and breakout discussion groups.

Speakers

• Dr. Bradley Cairns
  2017 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
  Chair, Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute
  University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Dr. Vivian Cheung
  Professor of Human Genetics and the Life Sciences Institute
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Dr. Frank Pugh
  Distinguished Senior Recruit of the Provost’s Genome Biology Initiative
  Professor, Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics
  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Dr. Kathy Niakan
  2019 United Kingdom Blavatnik Award Finalist
  Group Leader, Stem Cell Biology
  Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
• Dr. Jenny Tung
  2019 MacArthur Fellow
  Associate Professor of Biology
  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Dr. Andrew Moeller
  Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• Dr. Greg Wray
  Director of Genomics and Computational Biology
  Professor of Biology
  Duke Univeristy, Durham, North Carolina
• Dr. Julie Makani
  2011 Winner of the Royal Society Africa Award
  Associate Professor of Haematology and Principal Investigator, SickleInAfrica
  Muhumbili University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania