🧬 The SNPPET is back: Introducing SNPPET Events, the SNPPET Calendar and a new team member...

 👋 Hi Genetic Counsel(l)ors & friends 

🌟 It has been awhile since we said hello, and we hope you are all doing well.

If you are ESHG happening in MILAN this weekend, come say hello!!

After our November edition, the following months brought a nonstop barrage of policy changes, healthcare cuts, and difficult news from colleagues across our field 😮‍💨

Rather than struggle to keep up with everything while potentially adding to the overwhelming flow of information during an already challenging time, we decided to step back and use this period to thoughtfully plan how we can bring our community together, to support each other and add real value to all of you 500+ subscribers. 💪

So we are back with some exciting changes! 🎉 First, we're thrilled to welcome Claire Barton (a CGC who just made the move from Boston to Zurich 🇨🇭) to the SNPPET team. She will be supporting the SNPPET publication and event organization – so happy to have her support!! 👏 If you are interested in joining our team, please reach out 

🎯 Our New Focus: Bringing You Together

We're launching two regular live events designed to connect our global GC community: 🌍

1.🔗🤝 SNPPET's GC Speed Connect - Monthly Networking 

Seven-minute 1-on-1 meetings with five fellow GCs in a 45-minute video call – your very own seven minutes in heaven!! 

✨ This monthly event happens the first Thursday of each month (first-come-first-serve).
📅 First session: June 5 at 11AM EST / 4PM BST / 5PM CET / 8:30PM IST - Register here 

ONLY 6 SPOTS so act fast!!!

2. 🚀 The SNPPET Innovation Exchange - Quarterly Showcase 

Share your wins, research, and projects with the community!

Each 60-minute session features 3-4 presenters giving 8-minute highlights of their work, followed by networking.

🤝 📅 Quarterly: 3rd Tuesday in Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct at 11AM EST / 4PM BST / 5PM CET  📅 First event: July 15, 2025 - Interested in presenting? Fill out this form 📝

📅 The SNPPET Event Calendar 

Never miss newsletter deadlines, networking events, webinars, or conference opportunities! 🗓️ Add our new community calendar to stay connected: Click to access and add to your calendar

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💼 Participate in GC Research

Support a peer or GC student with their research projects

Brittany Galante, a GC is conducting a study on hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) in partnership with the Rare Advocacy Movement. 

• Aim: to investigate which healthcare specialists may contribute to the diagnostic delay of hEDS  

• Eligibility criteria:
  1. You have a clinical diagnosis of hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
  2. You discussed hEDS with a healthcare specialist before you were diagnosed 3. You are 18 years of age or older
  4. You can read and write the English language at an 8th grade level
  5. You are a United States resident

Please review the study site for more information and share the information with others.

💼 GC in the SPOTLIGHT: Kendra Schaa

Monthly Peer Supervision For Genetic Counsellors 

Kendra Schaa of Allay Life is organizing a monthly online peer supervision group to discuss challenging cases, enhance your counseling skills, and manage burnout. It is open to practicing GCs and GC students. You can sign-up here 

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This issue:

• News Highlights

• Jobs

• Conferences and Dates

• Webinars, Podcasts, Courses

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Some News Highlights 🌟 

Keeping it short this edition as we already said so much!

💊🧬A baby with CPS1 deficiency has been successfully treated with a personalised gene therapy. Base editing CRISPR technology was used and lipid nanoparticles delivered the treatment to to the liver cells. 

🧬 After months of speculation about its fate, 23andMe will be acquired by Regeneron, a biotech company for $256M. TBD on what their plans are for the trove of patient data.

🧬As their stock and revenue seems to be in freefall with more and more competition, Illumina fights back with a lawsuit against Element Biosciences  alleging patent infringement

Want to be featured in the SNPPET? Share your events, publication, ideas, job postings

💼 Job Opportunities

• Healthcare Partnership Manager - Paris, France

• Genetic Analyst - Belgrade, Serbia

• Genetic Diagnostics Director- Valencia, Spain

• Genetic Counsellor - Manchester, UK

• Genetic Counsellor, EDS service - London, UK

• Genetic Counselor - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Genetischer Beratungsassistent / Genetic Counselor, SYNLab - Mannheim, Germany

Looking to fill a position on your team? Or have internship opportunities at your work? Share your job here

🗓️ Important dates, deadlines and reminders 

Upcoming Conferences and meetings:

• European Society of Human Genetics, Annual Conference, Milan: May 24-27 2025

• American Society of Human Genetics, Annual Conference, Boston: Oct 14-18 2025

• International Conference on Human Genetics, Rome: Oct 16-17 2025

• National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC), Annual Conference, Seattle: Nov 6-10 2025

  • Registration now open, early bird deadline: Sept 18 2025

💻️  Educational courses, podcasts, webinars