Gene Forum website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nProgramme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, September 9th<\/sup>, 2025\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n08:30\u201309:00 Registration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n9:00\u20139:15<\/strong>\u00a0Opening ceremony<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n9:15\u20139:50\u00a0Keynote<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nEimear Kenny<\/strong>, <\/strong>Endowed Chair and Professor for Genomic Health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA. \u201cPopulation genetics in an era of genomic health\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n09:50\u2013<\/strong>10:45\u00a0Complex genomic approaches<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Lili Milani<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOlli Pietil\u00e4inen<\/strong>, Group Leader and senior scientist, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland. \u201cUsing multimodal, longitudinal data to explore clinical impact of genetic variants in psychotic disorders\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nSimone Rubinacci<\/strong>, FIMM-EMBL Group Leader at University of Helsinki and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA<\/em>. \u201cHaplotype-informed methods to uncover novel disease mechanisms\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n10:45\u2013<\/strong><\/strong>11:20<\/strong>\u00a0Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n11:20\u2013<\/strong>12:40\u00a0Reproproductive genetics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Triin Laisk <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nKatherine Ruth<\/strong>, Lecturer in Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. \u201cInsights from genome-wide analyses of female reproductive ageing\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nPol Sole-Navais<\/strong>, Group leader at the Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. \u201cGenetic susceptibility to shorter gestational duration and preterm birth\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nTaru Tukiainen<\/strong>, Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland. \u201cGenetic insights into the lifelong health of women and children\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n12:40-14:00<\/strong> <\/em>Lunch Break <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14:00\u2013<\/strong><\/strong>14:55\u00a0Disease mechanisms<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Kaur Alasoo<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHilary Martin<\/strong>, Group Leader in Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom. \u201cInsights into the genetics of neurodevelopmental conditions and traits from large British cohorts\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nStephen Burgess<\/strong>, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Univeristy of Cambridge, United Kingdom. \u201cMendelian randomization: How can genetics guide the design of clinical trials?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n14:55\u201315:30\u00a0<\/strong>Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n15:30\u2013<\/strong><\/strong>16:25\u00a0Ageing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator P\u00e4rt Peterson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\nJuulia Jylh\u00e4v\u00e4<\/strong>, Senior Research Fellow and Group leader at Tampere University, Finland and Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. \u201cDecoding biological aging and frailty through genomic methods\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nJoris Deelen<\/strong>, Associate professor at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands. \u201cMetabolomics-based biomarkers of ageing; how to implement epidemiological findings into clinically relevant settings\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n16:25\u2013<\/strong><\/strong>16:50\u00a0Poster session presentations<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Triin Laisk <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\nPoster presentation I \/ TBA<\/li>\n\n\n\n Poster presentation II \/ TBA<\/li>\n\n\n\n Poster presentation III \/ TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n16:50\u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong> \u2026\u00a0Poster session <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n19:30<\/strong> Dinner at Estonian National Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWednesday, September 10th<\/sup>, 2024<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9:00\u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>10:20\u00a0Medical Genetics meets Big Data<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Sander Pajusalu<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nNicola Whiffin<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. \u201cSmall nuclear RNAs in rare disease\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nPeter Krawitz<\/strong>, Professor at Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics of the University Hospital Bonn and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit\u00e4t Bonn, Germany. \u201cGestaltMatcher: medical image analysis with AI in rare diseases\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nAle\u0161 Maver<\/strong>, MD, PhD, Clinical institute of genomic medicine, UMCL Ljubljana, Slovenia. \u201cThe power of small \u2013 how Slovenia used genomics to transform diagnosis of genetic diseases\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n10:20\u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>10:55\u00a0<\/strong>Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n11:00\u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>12:00\u00a0Technological advances in the forefront of science<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Lili Milani<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nNeil Ward<\/strong>, VP and General Manager of PacBio for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. \u201cComprehensive variant detection with HiFi sequencing\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nSenior Technical Sales Specialist, Element Biosciences<\/em>. \u201cHigh-Dimensional Biology: Advancing Single-Cell and Spatial Multiomics.with AVITI24TM\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nGold sponsor presentation III \/ TBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n12:15-13:30<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Lunch break<\/p>\n\n\n\n13:30-14:50\u00a0Human origins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Michael Dannemann<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nPontus Skoglund<\/strong>, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom. \u201cAncient genome evolution in humans and bacteria\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nMari Sepp<\/strong>, Postdoctoral researcher, Heidelberg University, Germany. \u201cTracing cerebellum development and evolution with single-cell genomics\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nMartin Kuhlwilm<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria. \u201cUnderstanding human uniqueness using hominin and primate genomic diversity\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n14:50\u2013<\/strong><\/strong>15:30<\/strong>\u00a0Coffee break<\/p>\n\n\n\n15:30-16:50\u00a0Microbiome<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nModerator Elin Org<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nTove Fall<\/strong>, Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Sweden. \u201cGenome-wide association study of the microbiome composition in four Nordic cohorts\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nRob Finn<\/strong>, Section Head & Senior Scientist, EMBL-EBI, UK. \u201cExploring microbial diversity across scales and biomes\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\nH Bj\u00f8rn Nielsen<\/strong>, Chief Scientific Officer at Cmbio, Copenhagen, Denmark. \u201cStatus and Perspective on the Microbiome Field\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\u00a0<\/em>16:50\u2013<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>17:20\u00a0<\/strong> Closing remarks and announcing the recipients of Artur Lind Scholarship<\/h5>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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