Meet This Year’s Keynote Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Kristin Ardlie, Ph.D. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | GTEx

Dr. Ardlie is Director of the GTEx Laboratory Data Analysis and Coordination Center and an Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute. Her work has helped advance large-scale efforts to understand how genetic variation influences gene expression across human tissues.

Her research experience spans RNA sequencing, data analysis and coordination, population genetics, and single-cell approaches to characterizing human tissue samples.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Ben Heavner, Ph.D. University of Washington | GREGoR

Dr. Heavner is a Senior Research Scientist in the University of Washington Biostatistics Department’s Genetic Analysis Center, where his work focuses on systems that make collaborative genomic data analysis and scientific discovery possible.

He helps lead data coordination for NHGRI’s GREGoR Consortium, which brings together rare disease genomics data generated across multiple research centers and technologies. His work centers on data models, standards, validation workflows, cloud-based analysis, and consortia-level data architecture that support data sharing and release through emerging NIH cloud infrastructure.

Share Your Work at ACC2026

Abstract submission is open! We encourage community members to submit their work for oral presentation or poster consideration.

Oral presentation abstracts close: July 15, 2026

Poster abstracts close: August 10, 2026