Tonight’s meetup is all about moving from academia to industry. Our Head of Bioinformatics Research Services, Loukas Moutsianas (Loukas Moutsianas) and our Scientific Director for Cancer, Alona Sosinsky, share their personal career stories. 

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Our second event of the day, the Bioinformatics Meetup, is off to a great start this evening in London! Nearly 80 bioinformaticians in one place. 

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That's a wrap on #RGEC22 ! Seeing 100+ researchers, clinicians, participants, and policy-makers together discussing equity in genomic research was powerful. Thanks to all who attended – video recordings of some sessions will be on the event website (ow.ly/lfgn50LbG2F) soon.

The second set of breakouts at #RGEC22 had a great round-up of voices.

Faranak Hardcastle, Alice B. Popejoy, PhD, Joanna Ziff, & Ismael K.G., FRSA discussed how we get genomics to work for everyone.

Sam Lambert, Joseph Alderman, & Ekin Bolukbasi talked products and tools for equity.

Our community manager Dr Emma Karoune spoke at Genomics England genomic equity conference today as part of her work with The Turing Way Project

With the wonderful Anne Lee Steele and Jennifer Ding

Everyone’s refueled with lunch and the first round of breakout sessions at our Research for Genomic Equity Conference ( #RGEC22 ) have begun with some great panelists, including: 
Nancy Bird Leo Speidel Sam Tallman, Dr Emma Karoune Anne Lee Steele Jennifer Ding

It’s been great to see over 100 people come together to discuss all things equity in research. We’ve already had some thought-provoking talks from Alice B. Popejoy, PhD (pictured here), Segun Fatumo, and Hilary Martin.

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New results from the groundbreaking Genes & Health cohort presented by Hilary Martin #RGEC22

Some great points (and clear slides!) from Alice B. Popejoy, PhD on some core concepts and assumptions when we are thinking about #genomics #ancestry , population structure and #diversity #RGEC22

Great talk from Segun Fatumo from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine highlighting the importance of African genomic data for novel gene association and equitable genetic risk prediction

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Our opener from the wonderful KarolineKuchenbäcker who’s giving us a lay of the land of #genomics #data #diversity - over 90% of genomic studies are on individuals of European ancestry, particularly white Europeans #RGEC22

T-minus 30 minutes until the Research for Genomic Equity Conference kicks off with Maxine Mackintosh and KarolineKuchenbäcker followed by this morning’s keynote speaker, Alice B. Popejoy, PhD! Join the conversation here using #RGEC22 .

If you: 
- Are interested in statistical methods
- Have a passion for fairness in genomics
- Reside somewhere in the world

Check out our Diverse Data team's invitation to tender (closes 3 Nov): bit.ly/3Tas430

'We can't reach everyone everywhere, but we'd like to reach anyone anywhere.'

This week on The G Word, hear from AllofUsResearch's first Director of Health Equity, Martin Mendoza, on how the programme engages with participants as equitably as possible: bit.ly/3CCw7ht

The UK is implementing WGS clinically at scale - 1000s of genomes per month. Anyone in England under 25 in the UK with cancer gets WGS. 50+ rare diseases now get WGS. @Chris_wigley from Genomics England in his characteristic red shoes. #IGF