IGVF ASHG 2026 Presentations
IGVF consortium members will be presenting their research at the 2026 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Meeting. The table below highlights IGVF-related presentations, including presenters, presentation titles and additional details.
| Presenter | Date | Presentation Type | Name of Presentation | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Javier Maravall López | Wednesday, October 21, 11:15-11:30AM | Lighting Talk | Ancient DNA Reveals Natural Selection Upregulating the Human Immune System Over the Last 10,000 years | Room 520ABDE/Level 5 |
| Gaspard Kerner | Wednesday, October 21, 1:43-1:46PM | Lighting Talk | Proteomic Prediction of Disease Risk is Specific to Short-Term Disease Incidence | Room 517BC/Level 5 |
| Silvia Casadei | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Saturation Genome Editing Reveals the Functional Impact of RAD51D and XRCC2 Variants | Poster number 1059W |
| Douglas Fowler | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Gene and Domain-Aware Calibration Increases the Clinical Utility of Variant Effect Predictors | Board 8071W |
| Dinko Franceschi | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | DNA Cyclizability and Curvature Drive Complex Disease Heritability | Exhibit & Poster Hall/Level 2 |
| Benedikt Geiger | Wednesday, October 21 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Learning Nonlinear Contributions of Functional Annotations to Complex Disease Heritability with Neural Networks | Exhibit & Poster Hall/Level 2 |
| Buu Truong | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Polygenic Disease Association of Individual Cells in Single-Cell ATAC-seq Data | Exhibit & Poster Hall/Level 2 |
| Chaimaa Fadil | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Context-Dependent Heteroskedasticity in Gene Expression is Associated with Gene Function and Disease Heritability | Exhibit & Poster Hall/Level 2 |
| Xilin Jiang | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Distinguishing Environmental Variance From Measurement Noise in Plasma Protein Levels Prioritizes Proteins Relevant to Biology and Disease | Exhibit & Poster Hall/Level 2 |
| Jon Rosen | Wednesday, October 21, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Comprehensive Signal-Based MPRA Experiment of Liver-Trait-Associated Loci | Board 8223W |
| Chantal Nyirakanani | Thursday, October 22, 11:15-11:30AM | Platform Talk | High-Throughput Profiling of Macromolecular Interaction Perturbations in Human Genetic Disorders | Room 517/Level 5 |
| Shawn Fayer | Thursday, October 22, 11:30AM | Talk | Multimodal Functional Data Reveals Pathogenicity, Pathomechanism, and Genotype-Phenotype Relationships for ~75,000 MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway Variants | Room 517A/Level 5 |
| Boxun Li | Thursday, October 22, 11:45-12:00PM | Platform Talk | Comprehensive Perturb-seq of Schizophrenia-Associated Genes in Human Neurons Reveals the Functional Landscapes of Disease Genes and Loci | Room 511/Level 5 |
| Tiffany Amariuta | Thursday, October 22, 4:15PM | Poster | Pathway Activity Across Single Cell Transcriptomes Reveals Context-Specific Genetic Contributions to Immune-Mediated Disease Heritability | Board 8434T |
| Elysia Chou | Thursday, October 22, 4:15-6:15PM | Poster | DisCO.VG: R package to prioritize disease-specific variant-gene target pairs using data fusion | Board 8063T |
| Lea Starita | Friday, October 23, 8:15AM | Talk/Panel Discussion | Coding Variants: Experimental and Predictive Evidence to Reclassify Variants of Unknown Significance | Room 517BC/Level 5 |
| Gary Hon | Friday, October 23, 8:15AM | Talk | Molecular networks: A Shared CRISPRi Resource for Mapping Transcription Factor Function Across Human Cell Lineages | |
| Matthew W. Snyder | Friday, October 23, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Saturation Genome Editing of PALB2 Reveals the Functional Impact of 12,855 Variants | Poster number 6067F |
| Gaspard Kerner | Friday, October 23, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Proteomic Prediction of Disease Risk is Specific to Short-Term Disease Incidence | Exhibit & Poster Hall/Level 2 |
| Ross Stewart | Friday, October 23, 2:30-4:30PM | Poster | Gene-based calibration of high-throughput functional assays for clinical variant classification | Board 8071F |