The image above is from one of the earliest studies on the genetics of clefting done here at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Those were the days, weren’t they? You had to track signs and symptoms across generations, for decades, trying to deduce large scale patterns. Now we spit in a tube and mail it off.
The Future of Genomic Medicine was just happening. It was being actively tweeted by a number of leading figures in healthcare and science — Eric Topol, Carl Zimmer, Dr. Khoury from the CDC, Magdalene Skipper from Nature, and (uh) Al Gore, just for starters. It was so active that the original hashtag, #FOGM14, had to be dropped because of spammers, and they group switched to #FOGM2014. It was so active that even though it happened two weeks ago, the hashtags are still active on Twitter with people continuing the conversations around the conference. Here are just a highly selected few tweets with interesting thoughts, resources, and take-aways from this important conference.
How can we communicate the research process to the public? @girlscientist #FOGM14 #genomics pic.twitter.com/c7e7ZUg2g8
— Dr. Muin Khoury (@DrKhouryCDC) March 6, 2014
. @girlscientist showing us how to control the message with PubMed Commons, BioRxiv, Symplectic, lay friendly abstracts #FoGM14
— Raymond McCauley (@raymondmccauley) March 6, 2014
Chris Gunter (@girlscientist) says to get your research out there: blog, tweet, etc. Oh, and talk to journalists. #FOGM14
— Lauren Gravitz (@lyrebard) March 6, 2014
@girlscientist You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Lenid Kruglyak's Talk at #FOGM14: Arsenic and New Media" http://t.co/9dyJjwT4LO
— nextgenseek (@nextgenseek) March 7, 2014
Rightfully so: RT @girlscientist: Take that haterz: Beaudet is defending whole exome sequencing for patient diagnosis. #FOGM14 #pm101
— Robert West PhD (@westr) March 7, 2014
Better health, faster cures MT “@girlscientist: @HeidiRehm shoutout http://t.co/zUqVV8BHy1 & http://t.co/K2q5MNI6Dm by data sharing #FOGM14”
— brett johnson (@granitehead) March 7, 2014
RT @sandiegoscience: Patient from the future visits Future of Genomic Medicine: http://t.co/DRqRs8bmPV #FOGM14
— sdbn (@sdbn) March 7, 2014
Hakon Hakonarson describes finding promising ADHD drug by looking at mutations in ADHD people—may launch in 2017. #FOGM14
— carlzimmer (@carlzimmer) March 7, 2014
Hakonarson: his CNV mutation data for ADHD led to repurposing of drug that had been tried in Alzheimer unsuccessfully. #FOGM14 #FOGM2014
— Chris Gunter (@girlscientist) March 7, 2014
AT: Rare diseases cumulatively more common than cancer #FOGM14 pic.twitter.com/rQbwIVQfxn
— Ruby Gadelrab (@DivaBiotech) March 7, 2014
Rare diseases are not rare: 20M Americans & 23% pediatric admissions @sgreene @personal_rx_wi #FOGM14 #genomics http://t.co/Mf9ipEv8Lm
— Dr. Muin Khoury (@DrKhouryCDC) March 7, 2014
AT: need to build better molecular diagnostic factories #FOGM14 pic.twitter.com/tWjnt9UsJZ
— Ruby Gadelrab (@DivaBiotech) March 7, 2014
Jay Shendure: low rate of solving disease cases due in part to focus on exomes (ignores the other 99% of genome) #FOGM14
— carlzimmer (@carlzimmer) March 7, 2014
To @carlzimmer & others tweeting #FOGM14 – & organizers encouraging such – thanks 1B. Vastly magnifies value of the conference. Priceless.
— David Dobbs (@David_Dobbs) March 7, 2014
.@Personal_RX_WI gets asked “Why test if we can’t do anything about it?” Argues we’re not effective against hypertension now either. #FOGM14
— Chris Gunter (@girlscientist) March 7, 2014
Drs diagnose stuff they can’t do much about all the time (obesity). So objection to giving DNA data is red herring—@Personal_RX_WI #FOGM14
— carlzimmer (@carlzimmer) March 7, 2014
RT @Magda_Skipper: HJ: how do we do drug therapies with n of 1? #FOGM14 (start w #genomics!) #pm101
— Robert West PhD (@westr) March 7, 2014
RT @DrStelling: @ERamosLV @Personal_RX_WI The problem is that sometimes the MDs don't want to admit they need help.
#FOGM14 #meded
— Robert West PhD (@westr) March 7, 2014
Everyone knows that Variants of Unknown Significance is a play on Rodents of Unusual Size, right? #FOGM14 #PrincessBride
— Leonid Kruglyak (@leonidkruglyak) March 7, 2014
@leonidkruglyak "Variants Of Unknown Significance? I don't think they exist… Aaaah!!" https://t.co/Q7icfUtvNd #FOGM14 #FOGM2014 #ROUS
— Awesomics (@Awesomics) March 8, 2014
Genomics guides parents with child's disease-Recap of family presentation day 2 #FOGM14 http://t.co/18AgsXSC3f @scrippshealth @ScrippsSTSI
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 8, 2014
Had a great time chatting with the brilliant Dr. @EricTopol on the future of medicine! Watch here: http://t.co/eKfIUEmo5u #FoGM14
— Al Gore (@algore) March 8, 2014
Medicine's Inconvenient Truths: my interview with @algore http://t.co/DEWmlNkG8V @Medscape #genomics #indivmed #FoGM14
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 7, 2014
A very interesting conversation on medicine. I need to read it a couple of more times:) http://t.co/sUyyT3fiWy #FoGM14”
— Magdalena Maleeva (@magmaleeva) March 20, 2014
RT @girlscientist Beaudet: Every one here should have their genome sequenced before next year" #FOGM14– Rest of us? http://t.co/EwHveUuLdg
— Dr. Muin Khoury (@DrKhouryCDC) March 7, 2014
RT@DivaBiotech Sequencing is trivial compared to defining phenotype & gathering clinical &epi data #FOGM14 @JCVenter http://t.co/ZPT9YFzeAZ
— Dr. Muin Khoury (@DrKhouryCDC) March 10, 2014
Patients who question their doctor are changing the face of medicine http://t.co/vUaNpky4oa @nationalpost #FOGM14 @digitalpatient_ #genomics
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 11, 2014
Nice wrap-up of take-homes presented at #FOGM14 via @GenomeWeb http://t.co/RdmqypLjrU #pm101 #genomics
— Robert West PhD (@westr) March 12, 2014
Call for more data sharing by #FOGM2014 spkrs: "We will not harvest the fruits of genomics unless we pool our data.." http://t.co/SBCuMO4mJv
— FGED Society (@FGED) March 17, 2014
MT @carlzimmer Creator of “10,000 hour rule” post "The Danger of Delegating Education to Journalists”: http://t.co/NRQe05epo6 #FOGM2014
— cilemontgomery (@cilemontgomery) March 14, 2014
400K New Human Genomes by 2015: http://t.co/Uexf9jDM6S #FOGM2014 #NGS @Illumina @LIFECorporation
— Genohub (@Genohub) March 14, 2014
Whole Genome Sequencing in Clinical Practice: How far & how fast? #FOGM14 http://t.co/CaKks76gAO pic.twitter.com/UiGVG9cDqK
— Dr. Muin Khoury (@DrKhouryCDC) March 21, 2014
Thanks @EricTopol for hosting a tweetable conf- #FOGM14 #FOGM2014, & also TYSM to all the tweeters, found here: http://t.co/CaaWYd9T0c
— Robert West PhD (@westr) March 8, 2014
First posted at THL Blog: http://thlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/the-future-of-genomic-medicine-fogm14-hashtags-of-the-week-hotw-week-of-march-21-2014/
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