Thursday July 26, 2018, Arrillaga Alumni Center, Mccaw Hall
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Thursday July 26, 2018, Arrillaga Alumni Center, McCaw Hall 8:00 - 8:30 AM Breakfast & Registration, McCaw Foyer & Ford Gardens 8.30- 8.45 AM Early history of the Department - Stanley Cohen, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Genetics, Stanford University 8:45 – 9:10 AM Michael Snyder, Stanford B. Ascherman Professor and Chair of Genetics, Director of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University "Stanford Genetics: Present and Future" 9:10 – 9:20 AM Sir Gustav Nossal, Former Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Professor of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne Reflections on the Department of Genetics from August 1959 9:20-9:55 AM Sir Walter Bodmer, Head of Cancer & Immunogenetics Laboratory, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital“Your persistence is very flattering!” 9:55-10:25 AM Leonore A. Herzenberg, Flow Cytometry Chair in Genetics, Professor of Genetics & the Interdepartmental Program in Immunology “In the Beginning…” 10:25 - 10:45 AM COFFEE BREAK, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Uta Francke, Professor of Genetics and of Pediatrics, Emerita 10:45-11:15 AM Stanley Cohen, Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Medicine and Professor of Genetics, Stanford University "DNA Circle" 11:15-11:45 AM Ted Shortliffe, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Mayo Clinic Campus of Arizona State University “Josh Lederberg and his Investigations of Computer Use in Biomedicine” 11:45-12:15 PM Charles Laird, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington, “Epigenetics, Passing Through” 12:15-12:45 PM Douglas C. Wallace, Michael and Charles Barnett Endowed Chair in Pediatric Mitochondrial Medicine and Metabolic Disease, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia "A Mitochondrial etiology of the common “complex”diseases’" 12:45 - 1:30 PM LUNCH, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Tim Stearns, Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor and Professor of Genetics. Chair, Department of Biology, Stanford University 1:30 - 2:00 PM Huntington Willard, Director, Geisinger National Precision Health “Things no one told me I shouldn’t work on: junk DNA, non-coding RNA, and health care” 2:00 - 2:30 PM Jeff Dangl, John N. Couch Professor and HHMI Investigator, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences,University of North Carolina “The Plant Immune System and Microbiome” 2:30 - 3:00 PM David Gilbert, J. Herbert Taylor Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology in the Department of Biological Science. Co-founder and Associate Director of the Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Florida State University “Spatio-temporal control of mammalian chromosome replication” 3:00 – 3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Joe Lipsick, Professor of Pathology, of Genetics and, by courtesy, of Biology, Stanford University 3:30 - 4:00 PM Patricia P. Jones, Dr. Nancy Chang Professor of Biology, Director, Stanford Immunology "Genetic and Cellular Immune Regulation" 4:00 - 4:30 PM David Botstein, Chief Scientific Officer, Calico Labs"Functional Genomics at Stanford" 4:30 - 5:00 PM Olga Troyanskaya, Professor, Department of Computer Science and LewisSigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University and Deputy Director for Genomics, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation 5:00 PM Remarks (by video), Dean Lloyd B. Minor, Dean of the School of Medicine, Stanford University 5:15 – 6:00 PM Cocktail Hour - Ford Gardens & Library 6:00 PM Dinner - Ford Gardens Thursday July 26, 2018, Friday July 27, 2018, Arrillaga Alumni Center, McCaw Hall Arrillaga Alumni Center, McCaw Hall 8:00 - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Gavin Sherlock, Associate Professor of Genetics, Stanford 8:30 – 9:00 AM Rick Myers, President and Science Director, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology “Genomics in Alabama, 10 years on” 9:00-9:30 AM Joanna Mountain, Senior Director of Research, 23andme “Human Genetic Variation At Home and Away” 9:30-10:00 AM Maitreya Dunham, Associate Professor, University of Washington “Human genetics in yeast” 10:00 - 10:30 AM COFFEE BREAK, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Ami Bhatt, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and of Genetics 10.30-11.00 AM Paul Spellman, Professor, Oregon Health & Science University “Turning a Geneticist into a Team Scientist” 11:00-11:30 AM Neil Risch, Professor, Director, Institute for Human Genetics, UCSF School of Medicine “Ten Years of Human Genetics at Stanford” 11:30-12:00 PM Len Pennacchio, Deputy of Genomic Technologies, DOE Joint Genome Institute & Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “In Vivo Studies of Human Genome Function” 12:00-12:30PM Lin He, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Berkeley “microRNAs in development and disease” 12:30 - 1:30 PM LUNCH, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Julie Baker, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University 1:30 - 2:00 PM Jason Buenrostro, Broad Fellow, Harvard Society Junior Fellow “Single-cell epigenomics: Gene regulation at unprecedented resolution” 2:00-3:00 PM Panel Discussion “Future of Genetics – perspective from 2018” Moderator: Julie Baker, Professor, Genetics, Stanford University Panelists: John Pringle, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Genetics, Stanford University Ron Davis, Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics, Stanford University Douglas Vollrath, Associate Professor of Genetics and, by courtesy, of Ophthalmology, Stanford University Anne Villeneuve, Professor of Genetics and Developmental Biology 3:00 – 3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK, Ford Gardens Session Chair: Michael Snyder, Chair, Department of Genetics 3:30 - 4:00 PM Lars Steinmetz, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University "Systems Genetics" 4:00 - 4:30 PM Anne Brunet, Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor, Stanford University “Understanding and modeling aging” 4:30 – 5.00 PM Mike Cherry, Professor of Genetics, Stanford University “Serving Science” 5.00 - 5.15 PM Closing Remarks, Michael Snyder, Chair, Department of Genetics 5:15 - 7:00 PM Reception - Ford Gardens .