Research Seminar: Zhongbo Chen and Sam Tallman

The Genomics England Research Seminar series is a season of events held to demonstrate the best research from Genomics England and our partners. They started in October 2018, and are monthly, free-to-attend talks presented by Research Network members on the latest research being performed using data from the National Genomic Research Library.

This month's seminar speakers will be:

Zhongbo Chen: “Adaptive long-read sequencing reveals GGC repeat expansion in ZFHX3 associated with spinocerebellar ataxia type 4”

Zhongbo Chen is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL working on using transcriptomics to further the understanding of neurodegenerative disorders. Alongside her research, she is also a neurology registrar at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. During her PhD, she focused on using functional genomic annotation and RNA-sequencing data to improve the diagnostic yield of hereditary ataxias.

Sam Tallman: “Missing genetic diversity impacts variant discovery for rare disorders”

Sam Tallman is a Genomics Data Scientist at Genomics England. He has a background in studying the genetics of under-represented populations. His main research interests are geared towards understanding the global structure of human genetic diversity, and how this knowledge may help us to learn about our collective history and improve healthcare outcomes for everyone.

About the research seminars

The seminars will be held on the last Tuesday of each month at 2 to 3pm. These will be online sessions open to everyone and free to attend, we hope to have representation from across the Research Network, Discovery Forum and 100,000 Genomes Project participants as well as anyone else who would be interested in joining.

For updates on the seminars including announcements and speakers please follow the Genomics England twitter page. You can watch all previous Research Seminars on the Genomics England YouTube channel.

If you would like to present your research from the Genomics England Research Environment at one of these events please get in touch with the Research Management team at [email protected] and if you intend to publish on this research please include this so that we can publicise your paper on our Publications page.