SEGEG Scientific Meeting and Networking Event (in person at UCL)

Please join us on Friday, the 1st of April 2022 for the SEGEG Scientific Meeting and Networking Event (a collaborative event between University College London, the Francis Crick Institute and King's College London). After more than a year of online meetings, we are very excited to announce that this event will be held in person at UCL.

The event will include great scientific presentations, networking, panel discussion and delicious lunch provided free of charge for attendees of the event.

Details of our exciting schedule are below:

10:30-11:00 Reception (tea, coffee, biscuits)

11:00-11:10 Welcome and Introduction

Discovery

• 11:10-11:35 Dr Kartik Chundru (Wellcome Sanger Institute) Recessive burden analysis and gene discovery in ~40,000 developmental disorder trios with diverse ancestries

• 11:35-12:00 Dr Xiangrui Meng (UCL) Including samples of diverse ancestry in a genome-wide association study of depression aids locus discovery, prioritisation and interpretation

12:00-13:00 Lunch and Networking (Lunch is provided free of charge for attendees of the event)

Finemapping

• 13:00-13:35 Dr Joni Coleman (King's College London) Putative common causal variants and mechanisms in major depressive disorder

• 13:35-14:10 Dr Stavroula Kanoni (Queen Mary University of London) Leveraging the power of large scale trans-ethnic GWAS studies to elucidate biological pathways and mechanisms controlling blood lipid levels

14:10-15:00 Break and Networking (tea, coffee, biscuits)

Functional follow up

• 15:00-15:25 Megan Buckley (Francis Crick Institute) Functional classification of nearly all possible SNVs in VHL using Saturation Genome Editing

• 15:25-16:00 Prof Jennifer F. Linden (UCL) The power and pitfalls of neurobiological research in mouse models of genetic risk for schizophrenia

16:00-16:45 Panel discussion “How can we go from genetic discovery to understanding disease mechanisms?”

16:45-16:50 Closing remarks

16:50 Drinks

Please, reserve your ticket now as places are limited.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Are you a carer?

Please note that we are proud to announce a carer award.

Eligibility criteria are the following:

I currently work PT/FT in genetics research in South England

I am a parent/carer of a child under school age

I will be attending the SEGEG 2022 Scientific Meeting and Networking Event

I would like to receive financial support through the Crick Partnership Networking Fund

I accept that awards will be allocated randomly to three eligible researchers

The financial award of £90 will go towards childcare, for children under 13 on 1st April

I am happy for my name to be announced as a recipient of carer award at the meeting

I acknowledge that successful applicants will be given funds following attendance at the meeting

If you meet the eligibility criteria and would like to apply, please send the following information to segeg2022@gmail.com

Full name and title

Institution

Position (e.g. PhD student, lecturer)

The following sentence: “I confirm that I meet the eligibility criteria for the carer award”. Carer awards application deadline: Monday 28th March 2022 at 12:00pm

Best regards,

SEGEG and Networking Event Ogranising Committee

Organising Committee: Georgina Navoly, Diana Dunca, Maria Valkovskaya and Karoline Kuchenbaecker, UCL, London, UK

Sponsored by the Crick Partnership Networking Fund