On April 17, 2025 the UCLA Department of Human Genetics will host its second annual Emerging Genomic Scientist Symposium. Senior predoctoral and junior postdoctoral applicants have been selected from around the country to present cutting edge research in genetics and genomics. In addition to presenting their research at the symposium, the speakers will have the opportunity to form short or long-term mentorship and collaboration relationships with UCLA researchers.

Registration is now closed. Please join us next year!

Thursday, April 17, 2025
8:30am - 1:30pm
UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Room
 

Speakers:

  • Michelle M. Li  | Harvard University
    • Contextual Learning on Graphs for Precision Medicine
  • JP Flores  | UNC Chapel Hill
    • Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions
  • Jayati Sharma  | Johns Hopkins University
    • Contextualizing Disease Risk: Genetic and Environmental Contributors to Cardiometabolic Traits
  • Pragati Kore  | Baylor College of Medicine
    • Improved Allele Frequencies in gnomAD through Local Ancestry Inference
  • Bryan Ramirez-Corona  | University of Washington
    • Duckweed, a Multiplexable Model to Plant Response

Agenda
8:30am-9:30am: Registration and light breakfast
9:30am-9:35am: Welcome
9:35am-10:00am: Michelle M. Li
10:00am-10:25am: JP Flores
10:25am-10:40am: Break
10:40am-11:05am: Jayati Sharma
11:05am-11:30am: Pragati Kore
11:30am-11:55am: Bryan Ramirez-Corona
12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch at Plateia provided for first 50 who register

For questions contact:

Jeanette Papp jcpapp@ucla.edu
Michael Wells mfwells@mednet.ucla.edu

Meet the 2025 Fellows!

JP Flores

JP Flores

UNC Chapel Hill

Hyperosmotic stress induces complete rewiring of chromatin interactions

 

Bryan Ramirez

Bryan Ramirez-Corona

University of Washington

Duckweed, a Multiplexable Model to Plant Response

Pragati Kore

Pragati Kore

Baylor College of Medicine

Improved Allele Frequencies in gnomAD through Local Ancestry Inference

 

Jayati Sharma

Jayati Sharma

Johns Hopkins University

Contextualizing Disease Risk: Genetic and Environmental Contributors to Cardiometabolic

Michelle Li

Michelle Li

Harvard University

Contextual Learning on Graphs for Precision Medicine

 


Past Events:

Meet the 2024 Fellows!

Norma Hylton, MD-PhD student, Harvard/MIT

PANX1 activity regulates fetal architecture across cortical development

Norma Hylton

Jasmine Mack, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge

Genetic architecture, environmental influence: understanding autoimmune disorders and cardiometabolic disorders of pregnancy

Jasmine Mack

Nancy Paniagua, PhD student, Yale University

The Upstream Sequence Transcription Complex Dictates Nucleosome Environment at piRNA Genes in the C. elegans Germ Line

Nancy Paniagua


 

Roshni Patel, PhD student, Stanford University

Complex trait architecture across populations: opportunities and considerations

Roshni Patel