All News and Events

23 June 2027

Details coming soon!

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

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.

25 March 2026

Success is the widespread integration of MAVE evidence to reduce the rate of VUS. 

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.

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.

5 May 2026

Thea did her PhD research in the Lindorff-Larsen lab at the University of Copenhagen and is currently a postdoc with Joe Greener at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. During her PhD, Thea researched how missense variation affects the cellular abundance of a protein. Concretely, she combined data from abundance MAVEs (VAMP-seq) on several proteins to study the cellular abundance of variants across protein backgrounds. Thea's talk will focus on what can be learned from such large-scale analyses and why...moreit can be difficult to combine variant scores from several MAVEs to supervise variant effect predictors.

7 April 2026

Olivia Zhang recently obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University in Dr. Brian Liau’s Lab. Her research focused on understanding chemical and genetic mechanisms to regulate the LSD1-HDAC1/2-CoREST (LHC) repressor complex. In particular, she investigated the mechanism of cancer hotspot mutations in the E3 ligase KBTBD4 in promoting the degradation of CoREST. Using deep mutational scanning and a diverse array of biochemical and cell based assays, her work along with extensive collaborations reveal the mutational landscape...moreof the KBTBD4 hotspot that can promote neomorphic protein-protein interactions that drive subsequent protein degradation. Her work aims to address how we can use genetic methods to uncover protein-protein interactions that can inform therapeutic applications