# NHGRI Annual Conference ![2022 grads](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_28_10__1920x685/public/bigphd/files/2022_grads_group_banner_980.jpg?itok=B-NmTAvX) ## expand\_more Open all sections Close all sections ### 2025 NHGRI Conference - Philadelphia, PA expand\_more ## BIG students and NHGRI trainees attended the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, April 6-8, 2025. ## ![Philly dinner 2](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/2025-10/IMG_5754.jpg?itok=dH1gVdc_) ![NHGRI dinner](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/2025-10/dinner%20edited.jpg?itok=vrxkGZAZ) ![Hemauer poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-10/IMG_5759-crop.jpg?itok=eiqTT7eS) Christopher Hemauer presents "Cell-Free ChIP-based Cell Type Deconvolution for Cancer Analyses" ![Navami Jain poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-10/IMG_5740-crop.jpg?itok=xX7swL4p) Navami Jain presents "Sequence-Based Protein Models for the Prediction of Mutations across Priority Viruses" ![Jakob Heinz](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2025-10/IMG_5761-crop.jpg?itok=TPEvOAzX) Jakob Heinz presents "Foldback Read Artifacts in ONT Datasets" ### 2024 NHGRI Conference - Seattle, WA expand\_more ## BIG students and NHGRI trainees attended the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting, April 7-9, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. ![NHGRI dinner 2024](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/img_4871-12-newcrop.jpg) The Annual Meeting is a venue for trainees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Genomic Sciences, Genomic Medicine and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) fields to present their research and form collaborations with other trainees and established researchers from training programs across the United States. Many students shared their research through the poster sessions. ![Grace Moore poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/img_4880crop.jpg?itok=aea9F5p0) Above: Grace Moore (Farhat Lab) presented her poster "Evolutionary origins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis". ![Shakson Isaac poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/shakson_poster_resize.png?itok=ur2c6dco) Above: Shakson Isaac (Patel Lab) presented his poster "Estimating Gen-by-Environment Contribution on Metabolomics in the Framingham Heart Study Cohort". ![Claire Johnson poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/img_4878claire.jpg?itok=FGP5HCth) Above: Claire Johnson (Van Allen Lab) presented her poster "Clinical Composite Polygenic Risk enables cancer patient survival stratification from germline genetics". ![Laila Norford poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/img_4879newcrop.jpg?itok=nTLXDWqU) Above: Laila Norford presents her poster "NF-kB is a potential regulator of the mregDC state in cord blood-derived dendritic cells". ![Allen Lynch poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/img_4882crop.jpg?itok=cjpc_ZfN) Above: Allen Lynch (Park Lab) presented his poster "Genome-wide, base-scale mutation rate maps for mutagenic processes in cancer genomes". ![Daniel Stein poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/daniel_stein_poster_crop.jpg?itok=N3Uwhu2o) Above: Daniel Stein (Korsunsky Lab) presented his poster "Tissue Segmentation of Spatial Transcriptomics Using Topological Data Analysis". ![Seattle space needle](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/img_5096resized.jpg?itok=3HgZIpGg) Enjoying Seattle from atop the Space Needle! ![Chihuly garden](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/chihuly_crop2.jpg?itok=1V-vTpI1) Taking in the Chihuly glass garden ### 2023 NHGRI Conference - Salt Lake City, UT expand\_more ## BIG students and NHGRI trainees attended the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting, April 2-4, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah. ![NHGRI dinner](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/dinner_everyone_cropped.jpeg) The Annual Meeting is a venue for trainees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Genomic Sciences, Genomic Medicine and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) fields to present their research and form collaborations with other trainees and established researchers from training programs across the United States. Many students shared their research through the poster sessions. ![Gwen poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/gwen_poster_665.jpeg) Above: Gwen Miller presents "Phylogeny-free estimation of parallel evolution" ![Daniel](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/daniel_poster.jpeg) Above: Daniel Stein presents "Spatial Priors for Cell-Type Decomposition in Spatial Transcriptomics" ![Allen](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/poster_allen_665.jpeg) Above: Allen Lynch presents "Multi-batch single cell comparative atlas construction by deep learning disentanglement" ![Sandeep](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/sandeep_poster_665.jpeg) Above: Sandeep Kambhampati presents "Connecting spatial organization of tissues to cell state and function using self-supervised machine learning" ![Grace poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/grace_poster.jpeg) Above: Grace Moore presents "Extracellular vesicles of P. goldsteinii ASF519 may show biased loading of genetic material" ![Alex](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/alex_poster_665.jpeg) Above: Alex Yenkin presents "Single-cell Analysis of Hypothalamic Organoids Modeling Prader-Willi Syndrome" ![Shakson Isaac](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/shakson_665.jpeg) Above: Shakson Isaac presents "Evaluating Clinical Risk Factors in Type 2 Diabetes Through Genetic and Environmental Metabolomic and Lipidomic Readouts" ![Daniel Ben-Isvy](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/daniel_665.jpeg) Above: Daniel Ben-Isvy presents "Characterizing the landscape of rare copy number variation across populations" ![David Tang](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/david_poster.jpeg) Above: David Tang presents "Factorizing polygenic epistasis improves prediction and uncovers biological pathways in complex traits" ### 2022 NHGRI Conference - Durham, NC expand\_more BIG students and NHGRI trainees attended the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting - "Optimizing Scientific Communications", April 3-5, 2022 in Durham, NC. ![Group 2022](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/img_7378-1000.jpeg) ![group2](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/img_7393-1000.jpeg) ![Yasha](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/bigphd/files/img_7369-_665.jpeg?itok=OumWThfz) Yasha Ektefai gave a platform talk, "Mutational Data Split for Machine Learning Models that Predict Phenotype from Genotype" ### 2019 NHGRI Conference - St. Louis, MO expand\_more ## BIG trainees presented and attended at the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting, April 7-9, 2019 ![2019 NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting 2019](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/nhgri-photo-stl.jpg) The Annual Meeting is a venue for trainees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Genomic Sciences, Genomic Medicine and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) fields to present their research and form collaborations with other trainees and established researchers from training programs across the United States. ![BIG attendees of the 2019 NHGRI](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/group_lobby_1.jpg) ![BIG Students at 2019 NHGRI](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/0421_nhgri2019.jpg) ![BIG Students Aparna Tiffany and Katy at 2019 NHGRI](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/nhgri_aparna_tiffany_katy.jpg) ### 2018 NHGRI Conference - Los Angeles, CA expand\_more ## BIG trainees presented at the NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting, March 18-20, 2018. ![Katherine Lachance - PFinder](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_09.30.34.jpg?itok=gIqOc1T6) ![Alison Barton](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_16.20.31.jpg?itok=K6FJT2iJ) ![Zack Chiang](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_16.24.30.jpg) ![Tiffany Amariuta](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_09.26.53.jpg?itok=_B31bwnh) ![Vinayak Viswanadham](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_09.29.44.jpg?itok=onWMPsEn) ![Gaurav Luthria](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_16.23.03.jpg?itok=m0wrFv3x) ![Jacob Luber](/sites/g/files/omnuum6836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/bigphd/files/2018-03-19_09.24.51.jpg?itok=jIVFFPKq) Many BIG students attended and presented posters at the annual NHGRI Training and Career Development Annual Meeting which was held at the University of California Los Angeles over March 18-20, 2018. Presentations from the Harvard Medical School BIG trainees included: - Siranush Sarkizova presented her poster “Refining the rules of immune recognition to support selection of personalized tumor vaccine targets” - Alison Barton presented her poster “Somatic Mutation Rate of the X Chromosome in Non-Cancer Samples” - Eric Bartell presented his poster “Genetic studies of body proportion (sitting height ratio) shed light on the genetics and recent evolution of human skeletal growth” - Zack Chiang presented his poster “Computational Tools for In Situ Sequencing” - Tiffany Amariuta presented her poster, “Sites of transcriptional regulation mediated by T-bet tag SNPs that explain a large proportion of rheumatoid arthritis heritability” - Vinayak Viswanadham presented his poster “Correcting widespread Tn5 transposition bias in ATAC-seq footprinting” - Gaurav Luthria presented his poster “Towards Translational Deep Phenotyping: Quantitative Single Cell Imaging of In Vivo Tumor Morphology” - Katherine Lachance presented her poster “PFinder: A computational tool to identify genomic regions affected by perturbation” - Ryan Collins presented his poster “Rare copy-number variants in 102,257 humans highlight triplosensitive genes and noncoding cis-regulatory loci as risk factors in disease” - Jacob Luber presented his poster “Metagenomic and Functional Analysis of the Elite Athlete Identify a Performance-Promoting Microbiome”