Doug Fowler, Ph.D.: 'The annual symposium has become the premier gathering space for exchanging ideas on mutational scanning methodologies and applications.'
The annual Mutational Scanning Symposium, hosted by the Atlas of Variant Effects (AVE) Alliance, is returning to its roots for its 10th anniversary. The conference will be June 23 – 25 2027 in Seattle, Washington, the same city where the first symposium was held in 2017.
BBI’s Doug Fowler, Ph.D., Co-Chair of the Alliance’s Executive Committee, led the organizing for the first event, and is playing a similar role for the next symposium along with BBI colleague Lea Starita, Ph.D. and others.
"What began ten years ago in the Pacific Northwest is coming home,” Fowler said. “Our first symposium was a small, one-day grassroots meeting. It has transformed into an internationally recognized conference, attracting researchers from around the world. The annual Mutational Scanning Symposium has become the premier gathering space for exchanging ideas on mutational scanning methodologies and applications.”
The conference will also highlight two entities within the University of Washington that play essential roles in the AVE Alliance. BBI and UW Department of Genome Sciences serve as the Alliance’s administrative home.
The 2027 symposium will include two keynote speakers:
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Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington; Lead Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology; and Scientific Director of the Brotman Baty Institute.
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Britt Adamson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University.
The location for the symposium is the Bell Harbor International Conference Center, located on the Elliot Bay waterfront in Seattle.
Registration for the symposium will open later this year. In the meantime, event organizers have created a website and suggest anyone interested check it frequently for updates.
