Speakers

Aaron McKenna is a Senior Fellow in the Shendure Lab at the University of Washington and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work focuses on the computational and experimental methods for lineage tracing and signal recording in both normal development as well as cancer. Before completing his PhD at the University of Washington, he worked as a computational biologist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he helped to develop the Genome Analysis Toolkit and led the analysis of the TCGA's Glioblastoma tumor type project.