Are you going to be at the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG) 2024 Annual Meeting being held in Denver, Colorado from this Tuesday, 11/05/24, to Saturday, 11/09/24?

The ADSP and NIAGADS will be there too!

Check out where you can see the ADSP and NIAGADS in action below:

ADSP at ASHG

Wednesday, November 6, from 4:30 to 5:00 PM MT in Mile High Ballroom
Dr. Margaret Pericak-Vance Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from ASHG

Dr. Pericak-Vance, a principal investigator of the ADSP Follow-up Study (FUS) and FUS 2.0, is a recipient of the ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award this year. Every year, ASHG chooses to recognize key researchers who have made significant impact and contributions in their field of study throughout their career.

Check out Dr. Pericak-Vance’s session at ASHG on Wednesday, November 6 from 4:30 to 5:00 PM MT in the Mile High Ballroom or watch her recorded award presentation to hear her present her work: American Society of Human Genetics: 2024 ASHG Awards

Thursday, November 7, from 8:00 to 9:30 AM MT in Four Season Ballroom 1
The Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP): a paradigm for identifying genetically driven therapeutics for a global complex disease

The ADSP will be highlighted during a Featured Session at the annual American Society of Human Genetics meeting November 5-9 in Denver, CO. The session titled “The Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP): a paradigm for identifying genetically driven therapeutics for a global complex disease” will take place on Thursday November 7, from 8:00 to 9:30 AM MT.

The motivation for this session is to showcase the ADSP as a world-wide, large-scale collaborative projects that is needed to accelerate identifying targets for treatment of dementia. This session will briefly highlight the history and emphasize the current and future prospectives of the ADSP and how it can serve as a model for other consortia in identifying new and potential therapeutic developments through international collaboration, inclusion of diversity, functional analysis, and exploration of clinical targets.

NIAGADS Activities

Booth 1023 from Wednesday, November 6, to Friday, November 8

NIAGADS will be in the exhibit hall at booth 1023 from November 6 to 8, 2024. Stop by to connect with our staff!

Presentation on Thursday, November 7
FILER 2.0: Unified access to >100,000 omics datasets across >1,000 cell types and tissues

Dr. Pavel Kuksa will be giving a platform talk on FILER, NIAGADS harmonized, indexed collection of human functional genomics (FG) and annotation data with extensive, standardized metadata. FILER provides a scalable, unified way to easily access massive functional genomics and annotation.

Stop by room 401 at 11:00 AM ET to see Dr. Kuksa’s talk!

Posters

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

  • From query to visualization: programmatic access and interactive workspaces for Alzheimer’s disease genetics and >100,000 omics datasets

    Dr. Emily Greenfest-Allen will be presenting on NIAGADS Open Access API. Stop by board 1063W, poster 022 to talk with Dr. Greenfest-Allen.
  • Harmonizing 60,000 whole genome sequence data to advance Alzheimer’s Disease genetics research – Joint effort by the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project and the Genome Center for Alzheimer’s Disease

    PK (Prabhakaran) Gangadharan will be presenting a poster on the harmonization and production process for the ADSP/GCAD R5 products. This poster received a reviewers choice award. Stop by board 1069W, poster 028 to talk with PK.
  • NIA Genetics of Alzheimer’s Disease Data Storage Site (NIAGADS): 2024 Update

    Joseph Manuel will be presenting an update on the latest happenings at NIAGADS. Stop by board 1082W, poster 041 to talk with Joseph.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

  • GrafAnc: Enhanced Genetic Ancestry Inference at Subcontinental Levels

    Dr. Jimmy Jin will be presenting a poster GrafAnc, a novel approach that infers genetic ancestry at subcontinental levels quickly and robustly. Stop by board 3018T, poster 016 to talk with Dr. Jin.