HGSA 45th
  Annual Scientific Meeting

  24-27 November 2022

  Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
  Perth, Western Australia



Scientific Program

Times are based on Perth, WA time (GMT +8)

Note: Plenary Sessions will be Live Streamed. Concurrent Sessions will be recorded and available on-demand post conference (these will be available approx 1-2 weeks post meeting).

WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER

ASIEM MeetingsTrainee Clinician’s session - meeting for current trainees in Metabolic Medicine or Biochemical Genetics (Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth). Please contact Francesca Moore at ASIEM for any inquiries.

Newborn Screening and Biochemical Genetics Business Meeting (closed meeting) (Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth)        
Committee MeetingsBoard of Censors (BoC) for Genetic Counselling (Parmelia Hilton Hotel, Perth)
1830-2100ASGC SIG Mixer - The Island, Elizabeth Quay.

THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER

0730-1700Registration Desk Open
0900-1700Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings, PCEC - View programs here
ASDG
AACG
ASGC
ASIEM
1800-2300CONFERENCE WELCOME GALA DINNER @ Optus Stadium
Join us for our Welcome Gala Dinner and celebrate in style, with a much-anticipated Dinner at the outstanding Optus Stadium. Enjoy a night of celebrations, catching up and networking with friends and colleagues, fantastic local entertainment and delicious food and wine. 

FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER

          0700-0815 Genomics Education Network Australasia (GENA) meeting
Networking and presentations by GENA members about programs, courses and resources in genomics education. To find out more about the network and/or RSVP for this hybrid meeting, please register here.
0730-1800 Registration Desk open
0830-0850 Opening Ceremony and Welcome to Country
0850-1020 OPENING PLENARY & THEMED SESSION 1: Giving Voice to Lesser Heard Languages
Plenary 1: Dr Monkol Lek (virtual) - Increasing diversity in rare disease research: challenges and opportunities
Plenary 2: Mr Gregory Pratt - GenEtiquette: First Nations Leadership for Equitable Access to Genetic Testing, Genomics Research and Precision Health
Plenary 3: Prof Stephen Robertson - Māori-led indigenous healthcare genomics in Aotearoa New Zealand
1020-1100 MORNING TEA AND EXHIBITION OPENING
1100-1145 SUTHERLAND LECTURE
A/Prof Jodie Ingles
- Not for the faint hearted: Two decades of cardiac genetic counselling
1145-1330 PLENARY AND THEMED SESSION 2: New Developments: New Conversations
Plenary 4: Prof Brian Bigger - Stem Cell Gene Therapy to Treat Childhood Dementias – A Sanfilippo story
Plenary 5: A/Prof Elizabeth Worthey - New developments in the identification and interpretation of clinically actionable causal and modifier variation
Plenary 6: A/Prof Karin Kassahn - Better Faster Cheaper – choose two? Or the quest for the perfect clinical genomics service Plenary 7: Dr Louise Bicknell - The complicated and little-explored world of histone genetics
1330-1430 LUNCH, EXHIBITION & POSTERS
1430-1530 CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SESSIONS 

Industry Session
 
Is lack of diversity failing the implementation of precision medicine?

Join us to hear from the Illumina Head of Medical Affairs for Asia Pacific Japan, Dr Amol Zimur.  Dr Zimur will be discussing the need for diversity in genomic data through a short presentation titled “Is lack of diversity failing the implementation of precision medicine?”. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Dr Zimur to provide greater insight and consideration around the need for building diverse genomic data.

Joining us for the panel discussion:

  • Dr Lisa Dive, a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology Sydney, where she teaches in the genetic counselling program. Lisa is a bioethics scholar with a background in analytic philosophy and her research focuses on the ethical aspects of genetics and genomics.
  • Ms Sidney Ruthven, a Masters of Genetic Counselling Student at University of Melbourne and a young Aboriginal woman from rural Queensland.  Sidney aspires to become a genetic counsellor to advocate for Indigenous perspectives regarding healthcare and create a culturally safe space for her practice.
Agilent Industry Session
 
Early insights from “DNA Screen”: a high-profile Australian pilot study for population genomic screening
Dr Tú Nguyen-Dumont, Head, Clinical Genomics laboratory, Monash University, Australia
Updates on the Agilent NGS workflow solution
Dr. Dan Belluoccio, Senior Field Applications Scientist, Agilent Technologies, South Asia Pacific

Join us at the Agilent Industry Session to learn how the “DNA Screen” national pilot study is igniting an impact on future generations.In Australia, access to genetic testing currently relies on a personal or family history of disease. These criteria are inadequate as they fail to detect most high-risk individuals, with ~50-90% carriers estimated to be missed by current practice.The “DNA Screen” program has assembled a team of internationally recognized leaders in genomics, oncology, epidemiology, clinical genetics, and implementation science to demonstrate proof-of-concept for population genomic screening in a cohort of 10,000 young adults recruited from the Australian general population who will be offered germline DNA screening, via a highly targeted NGS gene-panel. The study will assess the acceptability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of offering this test to young adults in the Australian public healthcare system.In this presentation, Dr. Tú Nguyen-Dumont will provide early insights from “DNA Screen”, following its official launch in August 2022.In addition, Dr. Dan Belluoccio, Senior Field Applications Scientist, Agilent Technologies, South Asia Pacific, will provide brief updates on the Agilent NGS workflow solution.

Twist Bioscience Industry Session
 
Implementation of the TWIST exome in Pathology Queensland: One test to rule them all
Ben Lundie

Pathology Queensland the state-wide public pathology provider for Queensland Health has recently completed validation and implementation of the TWIST Comprehensive Exome plus VCGS spike in. This process included an initial market scan followed by a head-to-head comparison of three commercially available enrichment kits and two library preparation kits. The head-to-head comparison utilised a quantitative rubric to compared hands on time, cost, ease of use, sequencing statistics, analytical performance against NIST controls and gene/region specific performance including coverage of clinically relevant intronic regions.The TWIST exome with the TWIST library preparation kit scored highest of kits tested. In particular it scored the highest points for ease of use and detection of clinically relevant variants. The TWIST exome was further validated for clinical use and achieved a mean recall of 98.7% for SNVs and 97.6% for indels when compared against the NIST gold standard regions of HG001-HG005. Coverage was 98.88% of bases covered at a depth >20x for all genes currently known to be associated with disease.The implementation of the TWIST exome has significantly reduced the cost of testing within Pathology Queensland and allows for the consolidation of all sequencing tests, from single gene analysis to large phenotype specific panels such as intellectual disability into a single platform. In addition to the increased utility of exome data for future use, this increase in efficiency decreases hands on time for tests allowing for the reallocation of scarce scientific resources off the bench and onto the analysis of cases.

The Utility of Twist Custom Panels in a Diagnostic Setting
Dr Mark Davis

The Neurogenetics Laboratory in the Department of Diagnostic Genomics, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, is the main provider of molecular genetic testing for neuromuscular diseases for the state of Western Australia and is also an Australasian reference centre for a range of conditions. The Neurogenetics laboratory first started running custom gene capture panels in 2013, making us one of the first laboratories in the country to offer diagnostic next generation sequencing. In 2019 we trialled a Twist version of one of our custom gene panels and found the entire process, from designing and ordering the custom panel content to laboratory use of the kits, to be quicker, cheaper and more effective than our previous suppliers. Actively designing the content means we have been able to set the target regions covered to +/- 50 bases from the intron/exon boundaries and also to include specific deep intronic content of particular interest. The result is that we routinely get 20x coverage of the coding regions to 99.6%, and the exceptionally high uniformity combined with average sequencing depth of 300x means we get reliable copy number variant calling even down to the single exon level, such that 9% of positive cases involve CNVs.

1530-1600 AFTERNOON TEA AND EXHIBITION
1600-1730 CONCURRENT SIG SESSIONS - SUBMITTED ABSTRACTS
  Concurrent Session 1: ASDG
1. Improving fragile X Syndrome carrier screening with the inclusion of AGG interruption analysis - Ms Michelle Challis
2. Detection of SMA risk alleles in Diagnostics, Carrier Screening and Newborn Screening – A/Prof Richard Allcock
3. Results from an Australian prenatal exome sequencing cohort and hypercomplex cases requiring multidisciplinary team reporting - Dr Caitlin Forwood
4. A false positive false negative! Non-invasive prenatal testing results and lessons in placental biology - Ms Nicola Flowers
5. Accurate screening of pregnancies from known carriers of balanced reciprocal translocations using genome-wide NIPT - Dr Mark Pertile
6. Introduction of non-invasive Fetal Rhesus D genotyping in Western Australia - Mr Philip Asquith & Ms Gillian Arscott (virtual)
  Concurrent Session 2: AACG
1. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Vosoritide in in Infants and Toddlers with Achondroplasia - Prof Ravi Savarirayan
2. Audit of a multidisciplinary hearing impairment clinic - Dr Frida Djukiadmodjo
3. Mechanisms of incomplete penetrance-Pathogenic variants can be passed from an unaffected parent to an affected child via two dozen mechanisms - Dr Shuxiang Goh (virtual)
4. Muscle RNA sequencing: An increasingly important neuromuscular diagnostic and gene discovery tool - Mr Andrei Smolnikov
5. Multi-specialty collaboration solves a NGLY1 second-hit mystery: the answer lies in the RNA - Dr Brieana Dance
6. Expanding the speech and language phenotype in Koolen-De Vries Syndrome: Late onset and periodic stuttering a novel feature - Ms Miya St John
  Concurrent Session 3: ASGC
1. Models of communication for polygenic scores and associated psychosocial and behavioural impacts on recipients: a systematic review - Ms Courtney Wallingford
2. Evaluation of an online training program on healthcare providers’ knowledge and confidence towards personalised cancer risk - Dr Tatiane Yanes
3. Co-design, implementation, and evaluation of plain language genomic test reports - Ms Gemma Brett
4. Laboratory genetic counsellors in a stewardship program supported behaviour change amongst non-genetic clinicians - Dr Lindsay Fowles & Ms Aimee Dane
5. Psychiatric genetic counselling: a survey of Australasian genetic counsellors’ practice and attitudes - Ms Joanne Isbister-Smith
6. Using Virtual Clinical Placement to enhance student learning and readiness for practice  - A/Prof Alison McEwen
  Concurrent Session 4: ASIEM - Newborn Screening Workshop 
1. Newborn bloodspot screening - national expansion - Ms Karla Lister
2. Changing face of newborn bloodspot screening – A rare disease sector forum: Reframing policy conversations through collaborative, multistakeholder, informed discussion – Ms Louise Healy
3. 
MRFF grants and Genscan presentations (5min presentations):
  • Newborn GEN SEQ Trail:Newborn GENomic SEQuencing in screening: Therapy ready and information for life - Prof Bruce Bennetts
  • Genomic Newborn Screening for personalised lifelong healthcare in Australian babies - Prof Sebastian Lunke
  • EpiGNs: a new model for genomic newborn screening assessed at population scale in Victorian infants - Prof David Amor
  • Newborn screening model using Integrated multi-omics in South Australia (NewbornsInSA) -  A/Prof Karin Kassahn
  • gEnomics4newborns: Integrating Ethics and Equity with Effectiveness and Economics for genomic newborn screening - Prof Garath Baynem
  • Introducing the Genomic Screening Consortium for Australian Newborns (GenSCAN) - A/Prof Michael Gabbett
4. Panel Discussion
1730-1930 EXHIBITION NETWORKING RECEPTION
Network with our exhibitors and catch up with colleagues during the Networking Reception. Includes canapes and drinks
From 1900 
  • 1900 - ASIEM Cocktail Function - The Raft (floating bar & eatery)
  • 1900 - ASDG SIG Mixer – Lalla Rookh (Lower Ground, 77 St Georges Tce Perth)
  • 2000 - AACG SIG Dinner - Sauma Indian Restaurant (200 William St, Northbridge).  

SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER

0730-1730 Registration Desk open
0700-0745Industry Session Breakfasts
Each sponsor is providing some light breakfast snacks and coffee/tea before their session. Please join them from 0700-0745 outside their allocated room (refer to conference app for details).
0745-0845 CONCURRENT INDUSTRY SESSIONS
BGI Industry Session
 
New and Improved Approach of Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Using Colotect® and DNBSEQ™ Technologies
Dr Boris Wong, Quality Manager & Medical Scientist, BSc. (BioMed) MLabMed., Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Candidate, Translational Genomics and Epigenomics Laboratory, Dept. of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, VIC.

Join this one-hour technology workshop to hear from local Australian researchers using the world-leading technologies featuring guest speaker Boris Wong, Researcher and Quality Manager of the Translational Genomics and Epigenomics Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, and more. Boris will be sharing his first-hand experience using these novel technologies in his medical oncology research. In working with health professionals on clinical patients to contribute to resolving some of the most challenging issues in colorectal cancer diagnostics, Boris will be demonstrating his team’s study to potentially eliminate invasive procedures such as Colonoscopy and ascertain a new non-invasive and easy-to-use approach in colorectal cancer diagnosis achieving high sensitivity, specificity and accuracy.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Industry Session
 
Nanopore Sequencing - A better understanding of the human genome

A comparison between optical genome mapping and long read sequencing for the identification of copy number variants and other genomic changes
Laureate Professor Rodney Scott, Hunter Medical Research Institute & University of Newcastle, NSW

The identification of large genomic deletions or duplications has revealed their importance in a variety of diseases that include cancer where copy number variants (CNVs) are considered to be a universal predictor for survival in disease.  Outside of the context of cancer, CNVs are emerging as important factors in psychiatric and neurological disease genetics, to name but a few.  The identification of CNVs has significantly improved since the introduction of long-read sequencing and optical mapping both of which outperform comparative genomic hybridization and SNP based arrays.  This talk will describe the benefits and drawbacks of both optical mapping and long-read sequencing associated with the identification of CNVs.  

National Centre for Indigenous Genomics enabling the inclusion of First Nations peoples in genomics
Dr Hardip Patel, Bioinformatics Lead, National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, College of Health & Medicine, Australian National University, ACT

The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG) is developing a perpetual community resource comprised of reference genomic data and biospecimen collection from Indigenous Australians. The NCIG Collection is managed under Indigenous governance and backed by Australian federal statutory powers to support and enable biomedical research and precision medicine that benefits Indigenous Australians’ health and wellbeing. NCIG has established deeply trusted relationships with four Indigenous communities since 2015, whereby 684 individuals have donated their genomic data and biological samples to the growing NCIG Collection. We have begun generating telomere-2-telomere reference genome assemblies using ONT Ultra Long, PacBio HiFi and chromosome conformation capture (HiC) sequencing platforms. These reference genomes reveal Indigenous-specific sequences, including >2Mb of new sequences. Similarly, whole-genome sequence data from 160 individuals using Illumina short reads and ONT long reads show distinct genetic diversity missing from global resources. We detect ~25% of variation distinctly found only in Indigenous Australians; between 10 and 31% of variants are found only in a single community due to the prolonged isolation from each other and global populations. The unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Australia warrants modifications to the genomic analysis and interpretation workflows to improve research and health outcomes. NCIG continues to expand its genomic reference resources by including more communities, using the latest sequencing technologies and integrating these resources into clinical services and healthcare through a national network.

To receive more information from Nanopore, please register here.


Bionano Genomics Industry Session
Next Generation Cytogenomics made possible by Optical Genome Mapping.  

The adoption of OGM in a clinical diagnostic setting
Dr Harmony Clayton, Medical Scientist, Department of Diagnostic Genomics, PathWest

The potential of OGM to transform standard-of-care in cancer
Prof.  Vanessa Hayes
Petre Chair of Prostate Cancer Research, School of Medical Sciences, Head of Ancestry & Health Genomics Laboratory, Charles Perkins Centre. (CPC), The University of Sydney 

0900-1730 Exhibition Opens
0900-1030 PLENARY & THEMED SESSION 3: Phenotyping, ontology and language:  Shaping our Genomic Lexicon 
Plenary 8: Prof Angela Morgan - The genetic bases of severe childhood speech disorder
Plenary 9: Dr Gina Ravenscroft - Ten years of disease gene discovery and diagnostics in neurogenetic diseases
Plenary 10: Prof Zornitza Stark - The Acute Care Genomics program: a national multi-omic approach to rapid rare disease diagnosis
ASIEM Dietetic/Allied Health/Nurses Session: 
Ketogenic diets and CGM in GSDs
Facilitator: Dr Fiona White
1030-1100 MORNING TEA AND EXHIBITION
1100-1230 CONCURRENT SIG SESSIONS - SUBMITTED ABSTRACTS
  Concurrent Session 5: ASDG
1. Escaping early: Frequency, impact, and interpretation of start-proximal termination variants - A/Prof Seb Lunke
2. National engagement of Australian clinical genetic testing laboratories via the shariant platform identifies mechanisms to prioritise variant evaluation – Ms Emma Tudini
3. Reanalysis of genomic data in rare disease: current practice and attitudes among Australian clinical and laboratory genetics services - Prof Zornitza Stark
4. Whole Genome Sequencing Partnership Program: A risk-sharing agreement to implement WGS as a first line test in paediatric monogenic disease - Mr Ben Lundie
5. Recognising variable phenotypic expressivity in genomic analysis of severe monogenic disorders - Dr Peer Arts
6. How do we do it now? Reanalysis of genomic data – looking towards automation - A/Prof Stephanie Best
  Concurrent Session 6: AACG
1. Integration of episign, machine learning facial phenotyping and lirical in the classification of an arid1b missense variant - Dr Caitlin Forwood
2. Single-Centre experience with real-time prenatal genomic testing for counselling and pregnancy management - Dr Alice Rogers
3. Bionano optical genome mapping for FSHD1 molecular diagnosis - Dr Harmony Clayton
4. Findings of the AGHA Neuromuscular Disorders Flagship - Mr Jevin Parmar
5. Is genomic analysis of products of conception worthwhile? A population-based study of postnatal chromosome testing from 2020-21 – Ms Cecilia Pynaker
6. Two patients with rnu4atac related disease: clinical presentation and genotypic findings - Dr Kaitlin McGinnis
  Concurrent Session 7: ASGC
1. Decision-making about reproductive genetic carrier screening in Mackenzie’s Mission - Ms Erin Tutty
2. Reproductive outcomes matched to disease severity for couples at increased chance on reproductive genetic carrier screening - Ms Lucinda Freeman
3. Referral indications for prenatal genetic services over 15 years: Trends and practice implications for genetic counselling - Ms Joanne Kelley
4. Mainstreaming genomic testing for paediatric inborn errors of immunity: an evaluation of a novel model of care for genetic counsellors - Dr Tatiane Yanes
5. Young people’s experience of predictive genetic testing for inherited cardiac conditions: A qualitative study - Miss Ansley (Annie) Morrish & Miss Sarah Mulhern
6. Integrating genetic testing and counselling into ophthalmic care: A review of genetic testing outcomes in clinical practice - Mr Joshua Schultz
  Concurrent Session 8: ASIEM - Changing Face of Service Delivery
1. Rare metabolic disease workforce white paper: advocating for national reform - Dr Falak Helwani
2. Childhood dementia - The facts, symptoms and lived experience – Ms Kristina Elvidge
3. The importance of a genetic diagnosis for adult-onset mitochondrial disorders: Motivations for genetic & genomic testing - Dr Michelle de Silva 
4.  
Incidental diagnosis of metabolic conditions on carrier screening – experience of changes in treatment in an Adult Metabolic centre – Ms Sarah Donoghue
1230-1330 LUNCH, EXHIBITION & POSTERS
1330-1500 PLENARY & THEMED SESSION 4: New Experiences of Disease - from Genotype to Phenotype
Plenary 11: Prof Fowzan Alkuraya (virtual) - Deconvoluting variant-phenotype links through autozygosity
Plenary 12: Dr Yvonne Bombard - The Genetics Adviser: Patient-centred digital application enhancing preferences and outcomes of (primary &) incidental findings
Plenary 13: Dr Erin Turbitt - Beyond clinical utility: Assessing patient-reported benefits from genomic results
Plenary 14: Prof Felicity Boardman (virtual) – Making sense of uncertainty: newborn screening and genetic nomadism
1500-1530 AFTERNOON TEA AND EXHIBITION
1530-1630 CONCURRENT SUBMITTED ORALS SESSIONS - TOP 12 ORALS
  Concurrent Orals Session 1
1. Insights into the genetics and pathomechanisms of cortical dysplasia by analysis of patient-derived brain tissue - Dr Paul Lockhart
2. Germline variants in tumor suppressor fbxw7 lead to impaired ubiquitination and a novel neurodevelopmental syndrome - Prof Tiong Yang Tan
3. Defining the phenotype of White-Kernohan syndrome - Professor Susan White
4. RFC1 in an Australasian neurological disease cohort: extending the genetic heterogeneity and implications for diagnostics - Miss Carolin Scriba
  Concurrent Orals Session 2
5.  An interactive, online education program to prepare the Australian workforce to incorporate rapid genomics in paediatric critical care - Ms Giulia Mccorkell (virtual)
6.  The National Genomic Autopsy Study: A summary of results, outcomes and instructive families from 254 trios/quads - Prof Christopher Barnett
7.  Evaluation of the NSW newborn screening pathway for SMA – Ms Tiffany Wotton
8.  The new language of methylation episignatures in the old talk addressing developmental delays – Mr Dimitar Azmanov
  Concurrent Orals Session 3
9.    Australian genomics state and territory health systems consistency project identifies 21 gaps and/or inconsistencies in genomics health plans - Dr Matilda Jackson
10.  New conversations with health care practitioners - offering reproductive genetic carrier screening: Mackenzie’s Mission, Australia - A/Prof Stephanie Best
11.  The reclassification odyssey: From genes and variants of uncertain significance, in the perinatal setting, to clinical utility for recurrence risk - Dr Thi Thuong Ha
12.  Listening and responding to the information and support needs of people with intellectual disability in genomic healthcare - Dr Elizabeth Palmer, Ms Jackie Boyle, Ms Skie Sarfaraz & Prof Iva Strnadova
1630-1730 POSTER SESSION (with wine & cheese)
The Poster Session provides poster authors the opportunity to network and discuss their poster with delegates during the following times:         
1630-1700 - Odd numbered posters        
1700-1730 - Even numbered posters
1730-1900 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
            1730-1900
Mackenzie’s Mission: Outcomes from the Australian Reproductive Genetic Carrier Screening Project
Presentations: Dr Alison Archibald, Dr Stephanie Best, Prof Martin Delatycki, Prof Edwin Kirk and Prof Nigel Laing
Panel discussion:Prof Martin Delatycki, Dr Lisa Dive, Ms Corrina Cliffe, Ms Samantha Edwards, Dr Kylie Sterry
Facilitator: Ms Tiffany Boughtwood

1730-1830

Genomic data in the digital health system: how can it happen?  
Can the healthcare system handle the blueprints of 26 million Australians? How can 5.2 trillion bytes of genomic data be stored securely, retrieved on demand, and analysed meaningfully alongside our current medical records?   Join us to see how private and public healthcare providers think about this challenge.  

Mr David O’Driscoll is the lead author of the Blueprint for a National Approach to Genomic Information Management (NAGIM).  He’ll reflect on insights from working with the research and digital health sectors over the last decade and how genomic data management is transitioning to mainstream.

Dr Marie-Jo Brion from Australian Genomics will present an update on their work towards providing NAGIM implementation recommendations to the Federal Government for a secure and scalable approach to managing genomic data in Australia’s healthcare system.

Dr Natalie Thorne from Melbourne Genomics will share exciting progress made towards a scalable and interoperable clinical platform for genomics.  

This will be followed by an open discussion facilitated by David O’Driscoll.
How will managing genomic data well within the healthcare system change your work and open new opportunities?
Now is the time to ask your questions!

1900-2100 PRESIDENTS' RECEPTION (invite only event) - The Island, Elizabeth Quay.

SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER

0800-1300 Registration Desk open
0830-1300 Exhibition Opens
0830-1000 PLENARY & THEMED SESSION 5:  Data sharing - lessons from Indigenous data sovereignty
Panel:
Ms Heather Renton - 
Consumer perspectives around genomic data
Ms Bobby Maher - Overview of the Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles
Prof Gareth Baynam - Applying Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles in the clinic and in research
Prof Stephen Robertson - The application of Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles in Aotearoa
1000-1030 MORNING TEA AND EXHIBITION
1030-1115 HGSA ORATION 
Prof Nigel Laing - Tales of a Grandfather (Molecular Genetics).
1115-1215 HGSA AGM & Certificate Presentations
This is open to HGSA members only 
1215-1300 LUNCH, EXHIBITION & POSTERS
Exhibition & Posters close at 1pm. All Posters must be removed by 1pm.
        1215-1300Virtual Poster Session
View virtual posters and post questions to authors via the chat box in the app and virtual portal.
1300-1415 PLENARY & THEMED SESSION 6: The Changing Tide of Cancer Genetics
Plenary 15: Dr Laura Forrest - Relationship and reproductive experiences and outcomes for young people with an inherited cancer syndrome
Plenary 16: A/Prof Logan Walker - Inherited cancer risk and precision cancer prevention
Plenary 17: Prof Vanessa Hayes - Clinical benefit for genome profiling prostate cancer health disparities
1415-1430 Closing Ceremony & Award Presentations
 

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