Opening: Kathleen Barnes/Weiniu Gan/Rasika Mathias           12:00 – 12:10 

Keynote: Neil Hanchard, M.D., Ph.D.                    12:10 – 12:55 

Across the Atlantic and Back: African Genome Diversity and Disease Susceptibility

Break                                     12:55 – 1:00 


Lightning Talks (Moderator: Evlyn Pless)                 1:00 – 2:00 


Break                                     2:00 – 2:10

Matthew Dapas, PhD                             2:10 – 2:25 

Genetics of Asthma Subtypes in Urban Children

Victor Borda, PhD                            2:25 – 2:40 

GLAD to know the Americas: Understanding the genetic make-up of Latinos/US Hispanics

Wrap-Up: Eimear Kenny                      2:40 – 3:00

 

Lightning Talks

Name Talk title

  1. Margaret Taub Novel genetic determinants of telomere length from a trans-ethnic analysis of 109,122 whole genome sequences in TOPMed 

  2. Kai Kammers eQTLs in platelets and IPSC-derived megakaryocytes

  3. Jennifer Knight-Madden Asthma & Sickle Cell Disease - Hmm?

  4. Randi K. Johnson Prediction and characterization of genetically regulated expression of target tissues in asthma

  5. Sinéad Cullina Genomic discovery using electronic health records in Hispanic/LatinX and African-American populations identifies new gene–phenotype associations

  6. Sandra Owusu Update from Kumasi Site in Ghana

  7. Michael Turchin Testing whether a trans-ancestry LDL-c PRS predicts hypercholesterolemia in a diverse BioBank

  8. Sameer Chavan HLA typing in CCPM Biobank

  9. Selene Clay Fine Mapping the HLA Risk Loci for Adult-Onset Asthma

  10. Kanika Kanchan Gene*Environment interactions in the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy Study

  11. Roland Laboulaye Masked Language Modeling for Synthetic Genome Sampling

  12. Will Palmer Resequencing and genome assembly of ≠Khomani San hunter-gatherers

  13. Charles Washington III African American Specific Variants on a High-Risk Haplotype Regulate Expression of GSDMA at the 17q12-21 Locus

  14. Nick Rafaels Racial and ethnic disparities for risk of COVID-19 from billing codes at UCHealth

  15. Kruthika Raman Iyer Understanding Telomere Length through the lens of African Ancestry Populations 

  16. Nathalie Acevedo The genetic control of IgE response to house dust mites and helminth allergens

  17. Christopher Arehart Polygenic risk scores of COVID-19

  18. Andre Greenidge The Wound Healing in Diabetes (WHY) Study

  19. Shashwat Deepali Nagar Genetic ancestry, language, and African origins of San Basilio de Palenque: the first free town in the Americas

  20. Corey Cox Improving Sample QC and Manifest Balance with RShiny App

  21. Edwin Herrera-Paz Genetics of the Honduran Garifuna People

  22. Julius Ngwa Identifying SNP Associations in Under-Powered Whole-Genome Sequencing Association Studies Using eQTLs

  23. Evlyn Pless Mapping migration in eastern Africa

CAAPA Virtual Annual meeting- May 4 2021

CAAPA Virtual Annual meeting- May 4 2021