About this episode

The episode provides a sneak-peek of the upcoming ASHG 2024 meeting with insights from Dr. Bruce Gelb.

The annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is about to start. Here's a sneak-peek of the meeting with Dr. Bruce Gelb who is the current president of ASHG, he is also a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. My co-host --Dr. Mike Fletcher senior editor at Nature Genetics-- and I, asked Bruce Gelb about the meeting but also about some trends such as genetics and inclusion, biobanks, sequencing of the genomes of newborns, exposomics and more.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Mike Fletcher

Guest: Dr. Bruce Gelb

Topics covered

• human genetics
• ASHG 2024
• genetics and inclusion
• biobanks
• newborn genome sequencing
• exposomics

Keywords

• ASHG 2024
• human genetics
• biobanks
• genome sequencing
• exposomics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Society of Human Genetics, Icahn School of Medicine

Places: New York City

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