6.-7. mai 2026 | Tippkeskuste kevadkonverents (ENG)

Meil on hea meel kutsuda teid tippkeskuste „Eesti juured“ (CoEER) ja „Personaalmeditsiin“ (CEPM) kevadkonverentsile, mis toimub 6.–7. mail 2026 Tartus. Konverents toob kokku mõlema tippkeskuse teadlased, nõukogu liikmed ja partnerid, et jagada viimaseid arenguid, arutada uusi suundi ning tugevdada koostööd eri valdkondade vahel.

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Programme (ENG)


Wednesday, 6 May 2026

9:30 – 10:00 Registration + Coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Opening
10:10 Introduction of the Centre of Excellence Personalized Medicine (CEPM, Reedik Mägi)
      Thematic overviews of CEPM topics
10:30 Better disease prediction, “Advancing biomarker discovery: from early parkinsonism detection to cfDNA-based cancer prevention”, Mart Kals
11:00 Person-centred approaches, “Does one size fit all? Sex and personalised medicine”, Triin Laisk
11:30 Population involvement, TBA
12:00 Prevention of health problems, “Prevention of cardiovascular disease in individuals at high polygenic risk”, Ave Voit

12:30-13:30 Lunchtime (not provided by organisers)
13:30 Introduction of the Centre of Excellence Estonian Roots (CoEER, Kristiina Tambets)
      Thematic overviews of CoEER topics
13:50 Time and Space – group presentation of paleoecology and -climate and folkloristics
14:20 Change and Consistency – group presentation of archeochemistry, archeozoology, archeogenomics
14:50 Regional and Local Studies – group presentation of linguistics, archeology
14:50 – 15:20 Coffee break
15:20 Panel Discussion: Interdisciplinary Synergy as a Driver of Scientific Excellence – includes CEPM+CoEE on site SAB-members

Thursday, 7 May 2026

Presentations from the members of the Advisory Boards
9:00 Tom Gilbert (SAB member of CoEER) – virtually – “Holobiont evolution – Humans, plague and dogs”
9:30 Andrew Morris (SAB member of CERM) – virtually- “Understanding disease heterogeneity to enhance polygenic prediction”
10:00 Heikki Seppä (SAB member of CoEER) – “Climate reconstructions from biological proxy data: challenges and opportunities”
10:30 Daniel Lawson (SAB member of CoEER &CEPM) – “Methods for interdisciplinary comparison: from culture to language to genetics to bioinformatics”
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30 Rimantas Jankauskas (SAB member of CoEER) – “Bioarchaeology in Medicine: it’s advantages and pitfalls, Lithuanian experience”
12:00 Kerstin Liden (SAB member of CoEER) – “Crisis, Conflict, and Climate – societal change in Scandinavia 300-700 CE”
12:30 Riho Grünthal (SAB member of CoEER) – “Sociohistorical implications of empirical data in interdisciplinary research”
13:00 Concluding remarks

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More information Monika Nõmm | Project Manager | monika.nomm@ut.ee

University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics | Riia 23b, Tartu 51010, ESTONIA |