Hear from ASHG volunteers on how to navigate the Annual Meeting as a first-time attendee or trainee. We will cover a range of topics, from badge pick-up to networking opportunities and how to make the most of your experience. You will also have the opportunity to ask your questions during a Q&A period.

ASHG'S Virtual Symposium, September 24 and 25

We will discuss benefits and emerging challenges in sharing biomedical research data. We will draw on experiences from the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE-IV) Network and consider the ethical, legal and social issues that arise.

Adelaide Tovar, PhD, will present her HGG Advances paper on how massively parallel reporter assay (MPRA) design can alter enhancer activity across the same set of fragments. She and co-authors found that using a tissue-specific promoter in MPRAs instead of a generic housekeeping promoter can enhance detection of activity from tissue-specific regulatory elements.

Hyun-Hwan Jeong, PhD, will present his AJHG paper on MARRVEL-MCP, an AI-powered computational tool that simplifies genetic variant interpretation using natural language queries. The platform integrates curated biomedical databases with large language models to accelerate rare disease diagnosis and improve accessibility for non-expert users.