(North Bergen,
NJ—May 11-12, 2016) High Tech’s Science Majors took part in the 4th
annual Genetics and Genomics free virtual conference, a two-day event held in Dr.
Arun Srivastava’s class, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, Principal of High
Tech.
The 4th Annual Genetics and Genomics free virtual conference, one of the
most attended of its kind by researchers, lab directors, instructors, and other
genetics professionals, allows viewers to discover advances in genetics
research. The virtual conference
allows participation in a global setting, whereby people interact through
live-streaming video and chat sessions with presenters from the two-day conference.
For instance,
High Tech’s Jeel Shah, a resident of North Bergen, asked Vice-President and
Chief Scientist for Illumina, Inc., David Bentley, “Will the sequencing
detected in this U.K. industry [in the area of medical genomics] be available
to other parts of the world (like the U.S.) for further research?”
Tanushri Shah,
also from North Bergen, wondered if the program proved ethical and transparent,
to which Bentley assured Shah that such proved to be the case.
Andrew Tran
of Kearny and North Bergen resident Sarah Bacha viewed a conference given by
Frederick Dewey, Head of Translational Genetics for Regeneron Genetics. Tran inquired about the data collection of
volunteers who might have died due to the gene being observed or due to natural
causes. Bacha questioned Dewey about 1st
and 2nd tiers of systematic ascertainment of founder population studies.
