Last week was a big week, full of accomplishments, for 9 CERC team members who accompanied Vincent Mooser, CERC Chairholder, to the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting on Nov 5-9, 2024 in Denver Colorado. One of them also attended the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) annual meeting on Nov 3-4, 2024, just before ASHG conference.
3 MSc students, 2 PhD students, 2 bioinformaticians and 1 post-doc got their abstract selected for posters presentation. You can find their abstract below:
MSc students: Alyssa Green, Juliano Malizia, Irene Pender
PhD students: Peyton McClelland, Thomas Zheng
Bioinformaticians: Vincent Chapdelaine, Justin Pelletier
Post-doc: Benoît Delabays
Finally we must congratulate Chen-Yang Su for not one but two big achievements ! His abstracts won 2 awards in each conference ! At IGES, Chen-Yang received the Roger Williams Award Finalist which rewards the top 4 abstracts by a student enrolled in a bachelor, master or PhD program at the IGES Annual Meeting among hundreds of abstract submissions. At ASHG, Chen-Yang was invited to give a talk at the Platform Oral Presentation rewarding the top 10% of abstracts submitted to the conference. Please find his abstracts below: