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Introduction and Welcome: Yale Center for Genomic Health

April 30, 2021
  • 00:00Welcome everybody and thank you
  • 00:02for joining us this afternoon.
  • 00:03I am mailing Fernandez Garcia,
  • 00:05a postdoctoral associate in the
  • 00:06Department of Psychiatry and Genetics.
  • 00:08Before we begin.
  • 00:09Please note that at the end of our talks,
  • 00:12that will be a service, so hope you
  • 00:14take the chance to fill the survey.
  • 00:16An because of the zoom
  • 00:18format of the workshop,
  • 00:19we won't be taking questions
  • 00:21at the end of our type up.
  • 00:23Please feel free to add your questions
  • 00:25in the chat and will try to make
  • 00:28sure to forward them to a speakers.
  • 00:30So to kick up the workshop,
  • 00:33it is my great pleasure to introduce
  • 00:36our leadership Doctor Nancy
  • 00:37Brown and author Antonio had all.
  • 00:40This will hear first from Doctor
  • 00:42Nancy who graduated from Yale
  • 00:44College and earned her medical
  • 00:47degree from Harvard University.
  • 00:48She completed internship and
  • 00:50residency programs in medicine
  • 00:52at Vanderbilt University,
  • 00:53where she also did a fellowship
  • 00:56in clinical pharmacology.
  • 00:57In 2020, she became the Wallacedene,
  • 00:59an long professor.
  • 01:01Of internal medicine at Yale
  • 01:03School of Medicine.
  • 01:04Our second speaker,
  • 01:06doctor Antonio Hidalgo is studied.
  • 01:08Chemistry and molecular biology at the
  • 01:11University of College and University,
  • 01:13Autonomous of Madrid.
  • 01:14He did his pH D at the MBL
  • 01:18in Haleburg in Germany.
  • 01:20Anna postdoc at the Skirball Institute in NY,
  • 01:24Yuan, Harvard.
  • 01:25He established his liberatory here,
  • 01:27yelling into hundreds into 2007,
  • 01:29where he investigates the
  • 01:31regulatory codes and shapes.
  • 01:33Gene expression during embryonic development.
  • 01:35He was the director of graduate
  • 01:37Studies from 2012 to 2016
  • 01:39and is currently the chair of
  • 01:41the Department of Genetics.
  • 01:43Welcome Doctor Brown and Doctor Harold.
  • 01:45As we look forward from hearing
  • 01:48from both of you.
  • 01:50Thank
  • 01:50you, melon. I am delighted to welcome
  • 01:52you to today's Steam Workshop,
  • 01:54which is our final in the
  • 01:57series this academic year.
  • 01:59Today's topic is our new Yale
  • 02:01Center for Genomic Health.
  • 02:02This was launched last year and
  • 02:05brings together researchers and
  • 02:06other partners investigating the
  • 02:08genetic basis of health and disease.
  • 02:11And in this workshop you will hear state
  • 02:14of the art genomic resources at Yale.
  • 02:17You'll hear of highlighted studies and
  • 02:20in progress across the University.
  • 02:22The workshop will also introduce
  • 02:24Doctor IRA Hall,
  • 02:25who is our inaugural Director of
  • 02:27the Yale Center for Genomic Health.
  • 02:29And IRA will discuss the centers,
  • 02:32focus a new efforts underway
  • 02:34to promote interactions among
  • 02:35our genetic investigators.
  • 02:37As we usually do at the conclusion
  • 02:39of the workshop,
  • 02:40we will provide as Mail and
  • 02:42set an online survey link for
  • 02:44your ideas and your questions.
  • 02:46Let me now welcome Doctor Antonio
  • 02:47Heraldic chair of Genetics
  • 02:49to add his introduction.
  • 02:52Thank you Nancy and I I really,
  • 02:54really exciting to be here.
  • 02:57Join being Brown in welcoming
  • 02:59all of you to the team workshops,
  • 03:03interviews and showcase different
  • 03:04ages different like Genomics,
  • 03:06ayele and introduced. Use the help.
  • 03:10So Center for Genomic Health really really
  • 03:12builds an average year of discovery.
  • 03:14A yell from the genetic
  • 03:16spaces of health and disease,
  • 03:18and I mean, you know many first,
  • 03:20across the last five decades,
  • 03:21just to mention a few,
  • 03:23the sequencing of the first viruses.
  • 03:26I just meant the mechanism metabolic
  • 03:29disorders orders by December an.
  • 03:32One of the first pregnancies by
  • 03:34Doctor Mahoney and replace is off.
  • 03:37Blood pressure came a few and more
  • 03:39recently one of the first exam sequences
  • 03:42for life or largely analysis with
  • 03:45the Yale Center for Genome Analysis.
  • 03:48As Tim Brown pointed out,
  • 03:50this center will combine genomics and
  • 03:52data science, improve human health,
  • 03:54and really brings together many
  • 03:56of the different efforts adults
  • 03:59and hospital to understand stand
  • 04:01how the genome Berman influence
  • 04:03human is human disease and how use
  • 04:06that to provide to improve.
  • 04:09Center is also aligned with several of
  • 04:12the University key priorities for this
  • 04:14strategic planning for the next decade.
  • 04:16Decade,
  • 04:17muscle precision medicine,
  • 04:18they send the information science and
  • 04:21Cancer Research or research build
  • 04:23and understand really the genetic
  • 04:25basis of basis of many cities and how
  • 04:27our genomes Internet environmental
  • 04:28factors to influence the predisposition
  • 04:30to different different assist.
  • 04:32This of course,
  • 04:33Furman Center in our minds as we go
  • 04:35through this pandemic and significance.
  • 04:38Those are affected by covid.
  • 04:40Differently.
  • 04:42They said the center is also fun
  • 04:44and has been there when they work.
  • 04:47A joint partnership and we should first
  • 04:50cold medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital.
  • 04:53And I will never mark this,
  • 04:55because this been a tremendous
  • 04:58partnership as well as.
  • 05:00The division and input of made
  • 05:02of many different faculty echoes,
  • 05:04including Raccoon Alpha,
  • 05:05male pole to Harry, and gives.
  • 05:07In particular,
  • 05:07it is thanks to joint support of the
  • 05:10leadership from the medical school.
  • 05:12That's called the Browns and Insall burn,
  • 05:14as well as the CEO from the hospital,
  • 05:17Mark Margie Brainstorm and President
  • 05:19Aquila and President Church with church
  • 05:21well as well as Richard Lisitano,
  • 05:23with whom this would have not been
  • 05:25possible to initiate the student
  • 05:27recruit the funding that I found
  • 05:29in the table.
  • 05:30And the clinic and the direct and
  • 05:32the Director of Clinical operating
  • 05:34model with whom we will hear about it.
  • 05:37So as genome sequence become camps
  • 05:39underdiagnosis in future yell
  • 05:41Center for Genomic Health,
  • 05:42will be poised to make novel discoveries
  • 05:44that allow us to interpret the
  • 05:47genome and define the mechanisms of
  • 05:49disease and develop a better to be
  • 05:51better to talk her thought further ado,
  • 05:53I would like like to pass a pass on
  • 05:56to the organizer. Answers to Idaho.
  • 06:00Funding.
  • 06:03Thank you Doctor Brown and he
  • 06:05does this for your remarks.
  • 06:07So now we will hear from Doctor Aare,
  • 06:10Doctor IRA Hall, who graduated
  • 06:12from the University of California,
  • 06:14Berkeley and earned his pH.
  • 06:16D in Cold Spring harbor laboratory.
  • 06:18He is currently a professor in the
  • 06:20Department of Genetics and director of
  • 06:23the Yale Center for Genomic Health.
  • 06:25His lab work on questions related
  • 06:27to human genome variation,
  • 06:28complex traits,
  • 06:29genetics and genomic data science.
  • 06:32Science doctor Hall.
  • 06:33We look forward for your talk.