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\"\"The 14th<\/sup> Annual Genomics Science Institute (GSI) Research Symposium returned to an in-person event on Nov. 17, with lightning talks, new faculty talks and a poster session.<\/p>\n

Held in Hiebert Lounge on the Medical Campus, GSI Director Nelson Lau<\/a>, PhD, hoped that spontaneous networking and collaboration between researchers would again happen organically.<\/p>\n

\u201cZoom is useful but being able to engage that person face-to-face and saying, \u201cLet\u2019s get together for another meeting,\u201d and to plan collaboration are facilitated much better in person,\u201d Lau said.<\/p>\n

\"TwoThis year\u2019s symposium featured 21 poster presenters, nine speakers and more than 100 attendees. The event typically attracts more than 100 people each year, including the last two years when the event was held online.<\/p>\n

\u201cI very much appreciate the advocacy of the GSI, and their support of genomics research to increase our recognition in genetics locally and nationally,\u201d said Karen Antman<\/a>, MD, BUMC provost and dean of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

Antman praised the GSI for strengthening the network of faculty members working on the Medical and Charles River campuses and for promoting basic and applied research in genetics and genomics. The symposium, she said, helps showcase these collaborations and inspires new partnerships and grant applications.<\/p>\n

\"OneThe event began with Lightning Talks, presentations by doctoral candidates and post-doctoral researchers who were selected from those who applied to present their research in a poster format.<\/p>\n

Biochemistry graduate student Anthony Spinella outlined his work in \u201cDefining age-associated oncogenic drivers of an immune-evasive tumor population in oral squamous cell carcinoma.\u201d Robert Fisher, a PhD student in genetics and genomics in the department of dermatology, gave a presentation on \u201cCoRest promotes alternative splicing in melanoma.\u201d Ahmed Youssef, a graduate student in the department of bioinformatics, discussed his research in \u201cSingle cell deconvolution of bulk proteomics,\u201d and dermatology post-doctoral researcher Stephen Moore talked about \u201cRobustness and evolvability: Transcriptional control in development and immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faculty judges selected Spinella, a PhD Candidate in the Varelas Lab, presenting in the Lightning Talks, and Jackie Turcinovic, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Connor Lab, presenting in the Poster Session for the two Grand Research Pilot Prizes. Each prize comes with a $15,000 award completely allocated for spending at one of the Chobanian & Avedisian SOM research cores.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a significant amount they can use to take their research to the next level,\u201d said Lau. This was especially valuable, he said, given the new data science core that provides experts to do large-scale data analysis. Lau hopes that this year\u2019s GSI symposium also showcases opportunities the data science core represents for researchers whose work creates a lot of data.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope this symposium encourages more labs to use the data science core so that they can bring their research full circle,\u201d Lau said.<\/p>\n

The symposium included four new faculty talks. Assistant Professor of Biology Zeba Wunderlich<\/a>, PhD, discussed \u201cRobustness and evolvability: Transcriptional control in development and immunity.\u201d Assistant Professor of Computer and Data Sciences Pawel Przytytck<\/a>i, PhD, presented \u201cIntegrating large-scale genomics data to decipher the role of noncoding genome in disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Vascular Biology Angie Serrano<\/a>, PhD, discussed \u201cKMT2D roles during cardiovascular and neurodevelopment.\u201d Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics Julia TCW<\/a>, PhD, presented \u201cCholesterol and matrisome pathways dysregulated in Alzheimer\u2019s disease brain astrocytes and microglia.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the poster session, which was open to undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty, top-ranked posters by Turcinovic, Jane Zheng, Alison Tipton, Dylan Steiner, Rachel Ho and Yvonne Lok received $100 honorariums.<\/p>\n

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