All News and Events

23 June 2027

We hope you can join us! 

25 March 2026

Event jointly organized by: AVE and St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research

6 January 2026

Please join us for a special Fireside chat on January 6th, 2026

27 April 2026

Nearly five years of consistent programming, a growing global community, and an enduring commitment to open science’, the Variant Effects Seminar Series (VESS), hosted online each month by the Atlas of Variant Affects (AVE) Alliance, will celebrate a milestone in June: its 100th presenter since it was launched in 2021.

7 April 2026

Dr. Maitreya Dunham: 'I would tell my younger self to appreciate your mentors and take them for all they’re worth, or you will miss them when they’re gone. But you can still have echoes of their impact through yourself.'

1 April 2026

Lorenzo Vaccaro, a postdoctoral researcher at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, offers observations and insights about the conference.

28 January 2026

How can different molecular measurements enhance our understanding of membrane proteins and the genetic diseases caused by their dysfunction? In this episode, we explain how membrane proteins relay environmental information to cells, focusing on channels that gate ions and molecules.

17 December 2025

How can we use genomic technologies to tackle blood diseases? In this episode, we explain the role of genetic variants in blood disorders and how genomics approaches, such as gene editing can help cure these diseases.

30 June 2025

Who do you ask if you have a question about a gene? In this episode, we dive into the teams and scientists that are building an encyclopedia of knowledge about your genes.

7 July 2026

Sarah Gurev is a FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellow, co-advised by Sergey Ovchinnikov and Aaron Schmidt. She recently completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in Debora Marks lab. She develops machine learning models to address unmet needs in virology and immunology, with an emphasis on pandemic preparedness and therapeutic development. Her research spans viral evolution and function, precision-engineered vaccine design, viral-host interactions, and immune receptor modeling.

2 June 2026

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Dias and Frazer lab at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, where I work on disentangling the biophysical effects of missense variants. My background is in physics and biological chemistry — I did my PhD at the University of Buenos Aires studying protein folding thermodynamics and evolution. I'm broadly interested in connecting evolutionary and physical principles to understand how mutations reshape protein behavior.

5 May 2026

Jerome is a Bioinformatics PhD student in the Pimentel lab at UCLA. He is interested in models that use experimentally induced and natural genetic variation to understand the foundations of human traits and disease. His research focuses on modeling variant effects with deep mutational scanning data.