

The Symposium
A Comprehensive Symposium on Aging and Life Course
Co-hosted by:
University of British Columbia’s Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging &
Michael Smith Laboratories
8th May 2025
7:00 am - 7:00 pm
​Understanding the human life course requires a holistic view of the biosocial factors that influence and shape an individual’s life experience over time. Gaining insight into the mechanisms that govern social, cultural, environmental, and biological dimensions of life is essential for promoting interventions that improve longevity, enhance well-being, and create more equitable socioeconomic conditions.
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The Genomic Exchange Community (geXc) Life Course Symposium, co-hosted by the University of British Columbia, is a one-day research conference designed to bring together trainees, faculty, and community members to explore aging and life course through cutting-edge molecular technology. The symposium will cover a range of topics, including single-cell and spatial technologies, multi-omic approaches, advances in sequencing, and data analysis. By blending academic and industry presentations with a fully catered event, including trainee poster competition/wine & cheese, industry panel discussions and career building workshop, the geXc Life Course Symposium promises to be an engaging day filled with networking and learning.

About geXc
What is geXc?
The Genomic Exchange Community (geXc, pronounced “jexy”), started as a single one-hour educational seminar in 2011 about Next Generation Sequencing. With an overwhelming response, it was clear at that time, there was a thirst to understand the complexity of Genomics. After that, several educational seminars were held with equal enthusiasm to discover the potential of genomics to impact every aspect of science. Since then we decided to work with key opinion leaders to create a full-day symposia format, with a focus on how science is advanced through advanced genomic technologies and their approaches. We have held these one-day educational events in multiple cities, and have brought together nearly 4,000 scientists since 2012.
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The geXc symposia are always co-sponsored with individual academic institutions, who graciously provide a venue and help promote the content. The geXc symposia generally have 13-15 speakers from local key opinion leaders from multiple disciplines. Talks are also provided by industry sponsors, with a specific focus on scientific relevance. The attendees are provided breakfast, lunch, and coffee/tea and snacks during the breaks. Closing out the day, there is a revered wine and cheese social and poster competition
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Due to the gracious contributions from the sponsors, this event is free to all. Past sponsors include D-MARK, geXc, Roche, Thermofisher, Illumina, Kapa Biosystems, PacBio, Covaris, Lucigen, Lexogen, NEB, IDT, Bioo Scientific, Perkin Elmer, Hamilton, Golden Helix, Spiral Genetics, Lab7, DNAnexus, BioTeam, Panasas, Western Digital, HGST, SanDisk, Weka.io, General Atomics, Ovation.io, PierianDx, and Omicia.
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