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CGC Early Career Initiative: Coffee Break with CGC Mentors
4/29/2025 - 5/29/2025

Event Description
These hour-long, small group mentoring sessions will be led by a CGC mentor and include up to six trainee/early career CGC members. Placement is on a first-come, first-served basis and are limited to promote small-group interaction. If you aren’t a CGC member, and want to participate, you can become a member today!

Potential topics of discussion:
  • Working in commercial versus academic settings
  • Translation research focused career
  • Reinventing cytogenetics
  • Navigating the journey from fellow to faculty
  • Leadership development


The Spring 2025 Mentors:
● Alex Wagner, PhD
   Nationwide Children's Hospital
● Catherine Cottrell, PhD, FACMG 
   Nationwide Children’s Hospital 
● Jennifer Laffin, PhD, FACMG
   University of Minnesota
● Jerry Machado, PhD, MBA, DABMGG, FCCMG
   Exact Sciences 
● Ngoni Faya, PhD
   Cincinnati Children's Hospital
● Sarah South, PhD, FACMG
   Quest Diagnostics
● Swaroop Aradhya, PhD, FACMG    
   Illumina
● Xiaoming (Mindy) Wang, PhD
   University of Michigan

Please note the capacity for this series is 36 people. Each member may only register for a coffee break with one mentor.