From COVID-19 to childhood cancer, from asthma to IBD, nutrition to depression – how ‘OMICs can be applied to clinical practice was demonstrated over seven hours of densely packed information from six biomedical experts at the online #MacOMICS event hosted by the Population Genomics Program at McMaster University.
The virtual conference was opened by Lehana Thabane, Vice-President, Research, St. Joseph’s Hamilton, Scientific Director of the Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton, Professor, Department, Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster, and Associate Senior Scientist at PHRI.
He was followed by a powerhouse presentation by Andrew McArthur, whose laboratory at the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster, plays a leadership role in genomic surveillance and bioinformatics methods development to address the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Canada. He gave sobering insight (from the inside track – he is part of the Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCOGeN) – on the challenges created by the structure of the public health infrastructure, the unique biology of SARS-CoV-2, and how to use genomics to inform public health officials, elected representatives, the lay public, and frontline clinical epidemiologists.
The event, spread over two afternoons, May 27th and 28th, ended with an impressive presentation by Rod Rassekh, pediatrician and investigator at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute who has fully embraced precision oncology for young people in a pan-Canadian network of clinicians, researchers and patients (Terry Fox PROFYLE).
Event higlights: #MacOmics on Twitter
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Learn more about today’s first speaker, @agmcarthur, on the McArthur Lab website: https://t.co/MRAipaBgYc | #MacOmics pic.twitter.com/YVExUyKKC5
— The Research Institute of St. Joe’s Hamilton (@ResearchStJoes) May 27, 2021
#MacOMICS @PGPMac:
P. Nair @MacDeptMed discusses how simple sputum quantitative cytometry can provide just as useful info that can be applied to clinical practice as using #omics platforms #proteomics #metabolomics #transcriptomics #asthma #COPD #airwaydiseases@AllerGen_Inc pic.twitter.com/SIQxEJN4ml— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute 🇨🇦 (@PHRIresearch) May 27, 2021
Metabolomics – nutritional epidemiology; and childhood IBD
#metabolomics: solving #nutrition #epidemiology’s biggest problem (self report of #foodintake)#MachineLearning #Algorithms
#nutritwitter #epitwitter
Take home message of @DrRussRD @HEI_mcmaster at #MacOMICS @PGPMac pic.twitter.com/6OGPCeYYri— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute 🇨🇦 (@PHRIresearch) May 27, 2021
Childhood Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in the Context of ‘OMICS presented by Dr. Aleixo Muise @SickKidsNews @PGPMac #MacOmics pic.twitter.com/zP9Ci442ob
— Dr. Russell de Souza, RD, ScD (@DrRussRD) May 27, 2021
OMICS literacy is needed
.@DrSoniaAnand1 opens day 2 of #MacOMICS @PGPMac online conference with an overview of questions of #ethics that #OMICS in #healthresearch brings up; #OMICSliteracy #bigdata #AI #MachineLearning #artificial_intelligence #researchethics pic.twitter.com/q28I2Z88hg
— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute 🇨🇦 (@PHRIresearch) May 28, 2021
#PHRI Senior Scientist Gui Pare @GMEL_McMaster and cohost of #MacOMICS event introduces @LCapuron @INRAE_France @univbordeaux speaking on #neuropsychiatric disorders in context of #OMICS#inflammation-induced #depression#PrecisionMedicine in #psychiatry pic.twitter.com/zZYwqEOqEq
— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute 🇨🇦 (@PHRIresearch) May 28, 2021
Zena Samaan @MacPsychiatry, cohost of #MacOMICS event, introduces BC #pediatric #oncologist @RodMakeKidsBald
Shift to #cancersurvivorship + #omics technology explosion #tumor #omics and host germline omics@TerryFoxPROFYLE #precisiononcology for young people#PrecisionMedicine pic.twitter.com/NlhAnxNZ5e— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute 🇨🇦 (@PHRIresearch) May 28, 2021
