All News and Events
All News and Events for the Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance
21 May 2025
Event jointly organized by : Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya (IBEC) and Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)22 May 2024
Our 7th Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium will be held at the Broad Institute in Cambridge Massachusetts May 22-24th, 202413 July 2023
Our 6th annual Mutational Scanning Symposium20 February 2025
Dr. David Adams, founding member of the Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance, will be a featured speaker at the Eighth Annual 2025 Mutational Scanning Symposium, May 21 to 23, in Barcelona.24 January 2025
We explore cutting-edge technologies transforming genetic variant curation: multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs).5 November 2024
A dozen experts on subjects, ranging from computational biology to bioengineering to AI, have been confirmed for the Eighth Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium, May 21st through 23rd in Barcelona, Spain.23 March 2025
We can predict the weather, but can we predict genetic diseases from your genome?
In this episode we explain the challenges and the promises of variant effect predictors (VEPs)
with experts Dr Debbie Marks and Dr Joe Marsh
8 November 2024
In this bonus episode, we interview scientists at the 7th Annual Mutational Scanning Symposium which took place May 22-24, 2024 at the Broad Institute. Here we chat about the future of this field, funny lab experiences, and how people got interested in variant interpretation. (We want to thank Dr. Buchser, Dr. Cagiada, Dr. Deyell, Dr. Kinney, Mr. Smith, and everybody else at MSS2024 for their participation.)
20 September 2024
How do your genes impact your drug response, and what about your metabolism? In this episode we explain genetic variation impacting drug response or pharmacogenomics and folate requirements in pregnancy. Variant effect maps are an amazing tool for understanding individual response to diseases and drugs, but normally they are made in one environment, how many environments are needed for us to implement individualized medicine?
5 August 2025
Nurdan Kuru is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Siepel Lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher from 2021 to 2024 at Adebali Lab at Sabancı University, Turkey. Her talk will discuss her work at Adebali Lab, where she developed phylogeny-aware algorithms for variant effect prediction and coevolution. She holds BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her current research focuses on computational evolution and population genomics, specifically developing a multi-ancestry...more5 August 2025
Ferdy is a resident in internal medicine with an interest in endocrinology. He has studied medicine in Rotterdam and has finished his PhD in the Erasmus Medical Center, focusing on understanding pathophysiology and clinical presentation of patients with rare thyroid hormone signalling diseases, particularly MCT8 deficiency, and on developing and evaluating novel therapies for these rare diseases. He is getting enthusiastic about enhancing understanding of complex pathophysiology and applying this to help patients in a bench to bedside translational manner.
2 September 2025
Jonuelle (Jon) Acosta is a postdoctoral fellow at MIT co-mentored by Francisco Sánchez-Rivera and Michael Hemann. He completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in David Feldser's laboratory, where he utilized tractable mouse models of cancer to model the impact of p53 restorative therapies in small cell carcinoma. As an F31 predoctoral fellow, he identified novel context-dependent mechanisms of p53-mediated tumor suppression that may be utilized to develop novel strategies to treat this aggressive cancer subtype, and others. During...more