Our 2025 Institute for Human Genetics Genotech Symposium was a huge success with captivating talks that focused on basic science and translational work across selected topics in gene therapy, AI, and genomic technologies.
With over 500 registrants, there were many fruitful interactions and collaborations with talks by industry leaders/faculty, panel discussions, and social events.
Special thanks to our sponsors Mission Bio, Vector Builder, Nabsys, Takara Bio, Illumina, Element Biosciences, 10x Genomics, BD, N6 Tec, LexigenBio, Complete Genomics, PacBio, GENEWIZ from Azenta Life Sciences, Scale Biosciences, and QIAGEN for helping make this event possible!
Thanks to Michael Snyder, Talmadge King, Jacob Kimmel, Dan Hart, Paul Donohoue, Chris Hsiung, KT Moortgat, Kyle Farh, Shishi Luo, Xiao Yang, Jeff Spence, Kathleen Barnes, Mike Schnall-Levin, Matthew Kellinger, Diego Calderon, and Nick Page for the outstanding talks!
We thank you all for your participation and look forward to seeing you next year.
Genotech Symposium 2025 Photos
Agenda:
| Time | Who | Title | Talk Title | |
| Introductions | 9:00-9:05 | Talmadge E. King Jr., MD | Dean, School of Medicine, UCSF Vice Chancellor, Medical Affairs, UCSF Health | |
| 9:05-9:15 | Nadav Ahituv, PhD | Director, UCSF Institute for Human Genetics | ||
| Gene Therapy | 9:15-9:35 | Jacob Kimmel, PhD | Co-founder & President, NewLimit | Restoring youthful function with reprogramming therapies |
| 9:35-9:55 | Dan Hart, PhD | Head of Platform, Epicrispr Biotechnologies | EPIC GEMS: An Epigenetic Editing Platform for In vivo Therapeutic Applications | |
| 9:55-10:15 | Paul Donohoue | Director of Platform Discovery, Caribou Biosciences | A versatile CRISPR hybrid RNA-DNA editing technology for the generation of off-the-shelf cell therapies | |
| 10:15-10:35 | Chris Hsiung, MD, PhD | Assistant Professor, Institute for Human Genetics and Dept. of Surgery, UCSF | Higher-order combinatorial functional genomics | |
| 10:35-11:05 | Panel Discussion | |||
| Coffee Break | 11:05-11:35 | |||
| Keynote Speaker | 11:35-12:20 | Michael Snyder, PhD | Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Stanford University | The Genetic Basis of Complex Diseases Revealed Using AI methods |
| Lunch & Career panel | 12:20-1:35 | KT Moortgat, PhD
Shishi Luo, PhD
Mike Schnall-Levin, PhD
Michael Snyder, PhD | Founder, Managing Partner, Dalena Capital Director of Bioinformatics, Helix Chief Technology Officer, Founding Scientist, 10X Genomics Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Genetics, Stanford University | The career panel will be a round table discussion. Nick Page, Neuroscience PhD, will lead the discussion with a few questions to get the ball rolling and from there we can take questions from trainees in the audience. Come learn more about exciting and impactful career paths in the biotech industry. To join, register here and take your lunch to room GH-N114 on the first floor of the Genentech building. |
| AI | 1:35-1:55 | Kyle Farh, MD, PhD | VP & Distinguished Scientist, Illumina Artificial Intelligence Lab | PrimateAI-3D resolves variants of unknown significance (VUS) by leveraging large-scale evolutionary data |
| 1:55-2:15 | Shishi Luo, PhD | Director of Bioinformatics, Helix | Precision Medicine: From Exome Data to Drug Response with a Little Help from LLMs | |
| 2:15-2:35 | Xiao Yang, PhD | Co-founder & CEO, PromptBio | PromptBio: A Multi-Agent AI Platform for Bioinformatics Data Analysis | |
| 2:35-2:55 | Jeff Spence, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF | Accurate estimation of gene constraint by combining interpretable models and machine learning | |
| 2:55-3:25 | Panel Discussion | |||
| Coffee Break | 3:25-3:55 | |||
| Genomic Technologies | 3:55-4:15 | Kathleen Barnes, PhD | SVP Population & Precision Health, Oxford Nanopore | Population and Precision Health Powered by Oxford Nanopore Multiomics Solutions |
| 4:15-4:35 | Mike Schnall-Levin, PhD | Chief Technology Officer, Founding Scientist, 10X Genomics | Driving the Next Level of Scale of Single Cell and Spatial | |
| 4:35-4:55 | Matthew Kellinger, PhD | Co-founder & VP of Biochemistry, Element Biosciences | Unleashing the Multiomic Capabilities of AVITI24 to Empower Discovery | |
| 4:55-5:15 | Diego Calderon, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF | The continuum of gene regulation at single-cell resolution, from Drosophilia development to human complex traits | |
| 5:15-5:45 | Panel Discussion | |||
| Reception | 5:45 |