Event Details:
Location
Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
Save the Date!
Please mark your calendars for the return of the CEHG Symposium – the first since 2020! The event will take place on March 3rd, 2025 in Paul Brest Hall from 8:30 AM - 5 PM.
CEHG is proud to host Mary-Claire King as the speaker for the first Cavalli-Sforza Lecture in memory of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a scientist celebrated for his groundbreaking work in genetics and human evolutionary history. Professor Cavalli-Sforza was a distinguished member of the Stanford faculty from 1971 to 1992, and remained an influential emeritus faculty member until 2008.
The all-day event will feature talks from Stanford faculty and trainees as well as visiting scholars, highlighting the work of CEHG member labs and promoting connections within the broader scientific community.
See below for the schedule!
| Time | Event/Speaker | Title |
| 8:30 | Breakfast | |
| 8:45 | Welcome | |
| 8:55 | Linda Kachuri (Stanford) | Methodologic challenges with polygenic risk score modelling in diverse ancestral populations |
| 9:30 | Katie Solari (Stanford) | "How genomics can inform conservation: Genomic insights into species history and current distribution of snow leopards" |
| 9:50 | Daniel Richard (Stanford) | "Somatic mutations and clonal dynamics in the aging neurogenic niche" |
| 10:10 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40 | Marc introduces keynote | |
| 11:00 | Cavalli-Sforza lecturer, Mary-Claire King (University of Washington) | “Channeling RA Fisher: Interpreting the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis for the Genomic Era” |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:15 | Michael Palmer (Stanford) | "In silico genome transplants: using neural networks to study cis-regulatory evolution" |
| 1:35 | Graham Coop (UC Davis) | "Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts, wingnuts, and pecans" |
| 2:10 | Julie Granka (23andMe) | "Drug discovery and clinical success leveraging the 23andMe research cohort." |
| 2:45 | Iced tea break + posters | |
| 3:45 | Isaac Goldstein (Stanford) | "Phylodynamics for Pathogens with Latent Periods" |
| 4:05 | Seongyeol Park (Stanford) | “Genomic evolution of breast cancer during anti-HER2 treatment” |
| 4:25 | Kaleda Denton (Santa Fe Institute) | "Following the majority or the mean: Conformity in humans and large language models." |
| 5:00 | Alex Ioannidis (Stanford) | "Founder Populations and Pacific Islanders" |
| 5:30 | Closing remarks |