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Thursday, June 9th 2016
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| 08:40-09:00 |
Registration |
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| 09:00 | OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE |
| | Dr. Marco Kirm, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| | Dr. Tõnu Esko, Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Estonia |
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| 09:15-10:40 |
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Dr. Lili Milani |
| | Prof. Robert Plomin, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK
"Genetics and genomics of general cognitive ability and educational performance" |
| | Prof. Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
"Pharmacogenomic and epigenomic biomarkers for prediction of drug response" |
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| 10:40-11:00 |
Coffee / tea |
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| 11:00-13:00 |
I SESSION
Chair: Dr. Andrew Morris |
| | Dr. Jonathan Swann, Division of Computational and Systems Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
"Exploring mammalian host-microbiome interactions and their impact on host xenobiotic metabolism" |
| | Dr. Vijay G. Sankaran, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatric Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US
"Genetic Studies of Human Hematopoiesis" |
| | Prof. Niels Grarup, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
"Genetics of diabetes: Lessons learned from the isolated Greenlandic Inuit population" |
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| 13:00-14:10 |
Lunch |
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| 14:10-15:30 |
SESSION II
Chair: Dr. Tõnu Esko |
| | Prof. Rein Ahas, University of Tartu, Estonia
"Using mobile positioning data for studying human behavior" |
| | Prof. Daniel Benjamin, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, US
"Update and New Directions for the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium" |
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| 15:30-15:50 |
Coffee / tea |
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| 15:50-17:10 |
SESSION III
Chair: Dr. Mait Metspalu |
| | Prof. Mark G. Thomas, Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, UK |
| | Prof. Johannes Krause, University of Tübingen; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany
"The Genetic History of Europe: From Ice Age to Bronze Age" |
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| 20:00 | Buffet Dinner
served at restaurant Atlantis |
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Friday, June 10th 2016
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| 09:30-11:30 |
SESSION IV
Chair: Prof. Andres Metspalu |
| | Prof. Daniel MacArthur, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, US
"Using large-scale genomic data-sets to interpret genetic variation" |
| | Dr. Unnur Thorsteidndottir, Vice President of Research, deCODE genetics, Iceland
"Genetics of common complex traits – impact of rare and low frequency variants in a founder population" |
| | Dr. Jan O. Korbel, Genome Biology Unit, EMBL, Germany
"From Genomic Variation to Molecular Mechanism" |
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| 11:30-11:50 |
Coffee / tea |
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| 11:50-13:40 |
SESSION V
Chair: Dr. Reedik Mägi |
| | Prof. Krina Zondervan, Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Nuffield Dept of Obstetrics & Gynaecology/Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
"Understanding the genetic origins of endometriosis: progress and challenges" |
| | Dr. Anna Murray, University of Exeter Medical School, UK
"The Genetic Biological Clock" |
| | Dr. Masoud Zamani Esteki, Centre for Human Genetics, Leuven University Hospital, KU Leuven, Belgium
"Haplarithmisis to study allelic architecture of genomes" |
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| 13:40-14:50 |
Lunch |
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| 14:50-16:45 |
SESSION VI
Chair: Prof. Alexandre Reymond |
| | Dr. Terry Vrijenhoek, Staff and Faculty Advisor, Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, NL
"The Genetics Clinic of the Future - aligning vision and reality" |
| | Prof. Jacques Fellay, Global Health Institute, EPFL School of Life Sciences, Switzerland
"Human genomics of viral diseases" |
| | Dr. Bogdan Draganski, LREN - Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV, University Lausanne, Switzerland
"The link between human brain and genes – how can we solve the mystery?" |
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| 16:45 | Closing of the conference |
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