CGDS Trainee Presents at 2023 GBS Symposium

Tarun Mamidi presenting at the 2023 UAB GBS Symposium

Tarun Mamidi, a doctoral trainee in the Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics theme, delivered an impressive oral presentation titled about identifying cystic fibrosis variants using his tool, DITTO, at the 2023 UAB GBS Symposium.

His presentation highlighted the development of DITTO, a variant prioritization tool designed to identify modifier variants in rare diseases by integrating whole-genome sequencing data and machine learning models.

Congratulations to Tarun for being selected for an oral presentation and for his outstanding contribution to genome interpretation research!