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.

Registreerimine: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rcFyquEHUb

Pre-event

Pre-event | Tuesday, 5 May 2026 (UT Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Riia 23, r314) 

14:00 – 16:00 Practical workshop led by CoEER and CEPM Centres of Excellence Scientific Advisory Board member prof Daniel Lawson “Genes, Language, Immunity: Insights from local ancestry inference leveraging ancient DNA and biobank sources, a seminar with practical workshop”  

Programme (ENG)


Wednesday, 6 May 2026 (UT Institute of Genomics, Riia 23b, r105)

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

12:30-13:30 Lunch break (not provided by organisers)

13:30 Introduction of the Centre of Excellence Estonian Roots (CoEER, Kristiina Tambets)
      13:50 – 15:20 Thematic overviews of CoEER topics
– Time and Space – group presentation of paleoecology and -climate and folkloristics
– Change and Consistency – group presentation of archeochemistry, archeozoology, archeogenomics
– Regional and Local Studies – group presentation of linguistics, archeology

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 -17:00 Panel Discussion: Interdisciplinary Synergy as a Driver of Scientific Excellence – includes CEPM+CoEER on-site SAB-members (Moderator: prof Asko Lõhmus, UT)

Thursday, 7 May 2026 (UT Institute of Genomics, Riia 23b, r105)

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 Tapani 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

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break (not provided by organisers)

Register here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rcFyquEHUb 

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

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