Laura Conlin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pathology at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Director in the Genomics Diagnostic Laboratory at the at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is board certified by the American Board of Clinical Genetics and Genomics in both Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics. Her clinical roles involve genome-wide diagnostics in a pediatric setting, using genome-wide SNP array platform, array CGH, and whole exome sequencing to identify and report pathogenic sequence and copy number variants. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms of genomic alterations, with a particular interest in mosaicism and structural variation, and how these alterations cause genetic disease.