Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Director of the Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD), CDC
Biography
Duncan MacCannell is the Director of the Office of Advanced Molecular
Detection (OAMD) at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic
Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) at the CDC. He has been instrumental in using
emerging next generation sequencing technologies to transform infectious
disease public health, leading to the establishment of the Advanced
Molecular Detection (AMD) Program in 2014. He has guided the program's
development and application of sequencing and high performance computing to
public health priorities such as detecting and responding to outbreaks and
identifying emerging infectious threats. During the pandemic response, Dr.
MacCannell established the CDC SPHERES Consortium, which tracks the spread
and evolution of SARSCoV2, the virus that causes COVID19. He leads the
consortium's efforts to monitor the emergence and spread of new SARSCoV2
variants, which is critical for informing public health decision making,
tracking the evolution of infectious diseases and to inform public health
policy
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Christina Curtis, Stanford
PMWC Award Ceremony
• W.E. Moerner, Stanford
• Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
• Priscilla Chan, Biohub
Honoree Fireside
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
• Priscilla Chan, Biohub
Honoree Fireside: From Measurement to Meaning: What Data AI Still Needs in Biology
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
• W.E. Moerner, Stanford
• Serge Saxonov, 10x Genomics
• Anne Wojcicki, 23AndMe
Unraveling Tissue Architecture with Single-Cell & Spatial Multi-Omics
• Chair: Garry P. Nolan, Stanford
• Joakim Lundeberg, SciLifeLab
• Tae Hyun Hwang, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Michael Angelo, Stanford
Spatial Sequencing for Next Generation Pathology
• Eli Glezer, Singular Genomics
Precision Profiling of Cells: Insights from Imaging-Spectral Flow Cytometry and Single-Cell Multiomics
• Aruna Ayer, BD
Single-Cell Genotype and Targeted Gene Expression Assay
• Zivjena Vucetic, Mission Bio
Resolving Cellular Lineage and State in Tumors with High-Resolution Single-Cell Genomics
• Gary Schroth, Cellanome
Quality and Quantity: Lesson from building 100M+ AI-Ready Single Cells
• Dan Rozelle, Rancho Biosciences
Tumor Evolution & Clonal Dynamics: From Models to Monitoring
• Christina Curtis, Stanford
Personal Omics at Scale: What Longitudinal Profiles Add to Early Detection
• Michael Snyder, Stanford
Multi-Omics-Driven Early Detection: Beyond Liquid Biopsy
• Chair: Alex Aravanis, Moonwalk Biosciences
• Ash Alizadeh, Stanford
• Sara Ahadi, OmicsEra
Scaling Data Generation for Foundational Biology Models with Single Cell Sequencing
• Alex Rosenberg, Parse Bioscience
AI in Molecular Diagnostics: Integrating Multi-Omics & Clinical Data
• Chair: Marina Sirota, UCSF
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford
• Rebecca Critchley-Thorne, Castle Biosciences
• Lihua Jiang, Stanford
• Yunguan Wang, Cincinnati Children's
