Open Public Lecture & Panel Discussion

6PM - 8PM | October 11th, 2018

Daaga Auditorium, UWI

Lecturer in Biotechnology Department of Life Sciences University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad & Tobago

Assistant Professor Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute University of California, San Francisco, United States of America

Interested in learning more about human genomics research? Curious about the link between your ancestry and your health? Always had a real itch to Find Yourself? Please join us to hear how break-through DNA genotyping technology is used to study health, disease and ancestry and what that may look like in Trinidad and Tobago.

Moderated by Allana Roach, PhD, Assistant ProfessorDept of Educational Services, St. George's University

Networking & Refreshments 8PM - 9PM

Mapping Variation & Ancestry in the Human Genomeby Rajini Haraksingh, PhD

Translating Big Data into Precision Medicine by Dexter Hadley, MD, PhD

Genetic Ancestry Mapping in Trinidad & Tobago

Panel includes Dr. Haraksingh, Dr. Hadley, Mr. Nigel Cain (Fzero Genomics T&T)