1. June 4 - 5, 2018 Autodesk Technology Centre, MaRS Centre, Toronto
CIFAR-GETX Brave New World: Utilizing Genetic Networks to Decode Complex Disease
June 4 - 5, 2018
Autodesk Technology Centre, MaRS Centre, Toronto

2. About CIFAR
CIFAR brings together outstanding researchers from across disciplines and borders to identify and address important global challenges. CIFAR is supported by the governments of Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, as well as individuals, foundations and corporations across Canada and the world.
About Genetic Networks
The Genetic Networks program at CIFAR is charting genetic and molecular interactions to understand how biological systems work and how they fail. The aim is to map complete networks of genetic and molecular interactions, and to use them to decipher the rules of how genes influence one another, what environmental factors alter those interactions, and how the impact of genetic change is propagated through biological systems.

3. PARTNER
GET
The GET Conference brings together leading thinkers to discuss how we measure and understand people and their traits. For the past five years, this event has explored the frontiers of understanding about human biology and serves as an annual forum to debate the technical, commercial, and societal impacts. Since 2010, the GET Conference has been produced by PersonalGenomes.org, in support of the Global Network of Personal Genome Projects.

4. University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre
SUPPORTERS
University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre
The University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre is a $50M dollar endowment that invests in research and education in the broader area of genomic medicine. Its annual flagship million dollar accelerator grant programs funds cutting-edge genomics research "close to the patient" across the university, but focussed at the medical school and teaching hospitals. Investments in the MD-PhD program, the MSc genetic counselling program, workshops, and travel awards impact the university training experience each year. Other strategic partnerships such as the McLaughlin Science Journalism Fellowship with Massey College, and strategic co-funding with provincial and national granting agencies and companies, expand the breadth of impact.

5. SUPPORTERS Autodesk Toronto
At the global network of Autodesk Technology Centers, we collaborate with industry, academic, and entrepreneurial communities to speculate, validate, and test ideas about the future. Around the world, from Boston and San Francisco to Toronto and Birmingham, our centers explore different aspects of the future of making things. Autodesk Toronto is a place where we come together with customers, partners, start-ups, and academic and governmental organizations to push the boundaries of technologies and shape the future of making things.

6. Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS JLABS @ Toronto
SUPPORTERS
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS Toronto
JLABS is a global network of open innovation ecosystems, enabling and empowering innovators to create and accelerate the delivery of life-saving, life-enhancing health and wellness solutions to patients around the world. JLABS achieves this by providing the optimal environment for emerging companies to catalyze growth and optimize their research and development by opening them to vital industry connections, delivering entrepreneurial programs and providing a capital-efficient, flexible platform where they can transform the scientific discoveries of today into the breakthrough healthcare solutions of tomorrow. At JLABS we value great ideas and are passionate about removing obstacles to success to help innovators unleash the potential of their early scientific discoveries. JLABS is a no-strings-attached model, which means entrepreneurs are free to develop their science while holding on to their intellectual property. JLABS is open to entrepreneurs across a broad healthcare spectrum including pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer and healthtech sectors. The JLABS flagship opened in 2012 in San Diego at Janssen's West Coast Research Center, and since then has grown to ten global locations including the Bay Area, Boston & Lowell, MA, Houston, Toronto, Beerse (Belgium), with New York City, opening in June 2018, and Shanghai in For more information please visit or

7. AGENDA – DAY 2
JUNE 5, 2018
8:30
Welcome, stage setting
9:00
Session 4: Natural Variation and Population Genetics
Philip Awadalla, Nancy Cox, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
10:15
Break
10:55
Session 5: Breaking Down Silos Between Academia, Industry and The Clinic – Model Systems To Human Populations
Andrew Hessel, Calum MacRae, Marc Fiume, Amit Deshwar
12:20
Discussion and Synthesis