DAY 1
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Time (EET) in hrs Theme Moderator Speaker Talk title
08:45 – 09:15 REGISTRATION
09:15 – 09:30 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Welcome by Toomas Asser, Rector, University of Tartu, Estonia
09:30 – 11:30 Personalized medicine in psychiatry Lili Milani and Kelli Lehto Brenda Penninx
Amsterdam UMC
Netherlands
Using genetics to unravel the heterogeneity of depression
Henrik Larsson
Örebro University
Sweden
Psychiatric epidemiology using national register data: Challenges and opportunities
Christiane Gasse
Ahrus University
Denmark
From associations to clinical utility: impact of functional CYP2C19 and CYP2D6 gene variants on treatment in patients with depression: a Danish cohort study
Lu Yi
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
A multidisciplinary approach to better understand treatment resistant depression
11:30 – 12:30 LUNCH BREAK
12:30 – 14:00 A tour at the Estonian National Museum
14:00 – 16:00 Immunology and Epigenetics Pärt Peterson and Ana Rebane Dario Greco
University of Tampere
Finland
Integrated approaches to chemical safety assessment and drug design
Ulf Andersson Vang Orom
Aarhus University
Denmark
m6A RNA modifications, splicing and cancer
Benjamin Fairfax
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Exploring the interplay between germline genetic variation and responses to cancer immunotherapy and chronic viral infection across a large patient cohort
Anne Puel
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
France
Autoimmune phenocopies of inborn errors of immunity underlying infectious diseases
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 18:30 Genetic and phenotypic variance Kaur Alasoo Ewan Birney
EMBL-EBI
United Kingdom
Big data in biology: what the pandemic has taught us
Claudia Langenberg
University of Cambridge/ Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
United Kingdom/Germany
From molecules to health records: utility of omics at population scale
Dietmar Frey
CLAIM – the Charité Lab for AI in Medicine
Germany
The Challenge of Translational Research
Elo Madisson
Wellcome Sanger Institute
United Kingdom
A spatial multi-omics atlas of the human lung reveals a novel gland-associated immune niche
19:00 – 00:00 DINNER at Estonian National Museum
DAY 2
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022
Time (EET) in hrs Theme Moderator Speaker Talk title
09:30 – 10:30 Immunology and Epigenetics Kaur Alasoo Michael Simpson
Kings College London
United Kingdom
Driving discovery in inflammatory skin disease with human genetics
Presentation by Illumina Tiffany Morris

Kalina Cetnar

Illumina toolkit for PGx and PRS
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30 Parkinson Disease Andres Metspalu Mart Saarma
University of Helsinki
Finland
Search for new molecules to cure Parkinson’s disease
Alastair Noyce
Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom
Determinants of Parkinson’s disease – genes, environment and interactions
Toomas Toomsoo
Confido Medical Center
Estonia
Polygenic risk score for Parkinson’s disease and probability of substantia nigra hyperechogenicity in “healthy” adults
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
14:00 – 17:00 Microbiome and population genomics Mait Metspalu and Elin Org Paul Wilmes
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Systems Ecology of Human-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease
Leo Lahti
Univerity of Turku
Finland
Emerging computational approaches in population studies of the human microbiome
Adrian Tett
University of Vienna
Austria
The impact of Westernization on the human gut microbiome
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
Microbiome and population genomics(continued…) Mait Metspalu and Elin Org Hannes Schroeder
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Challenges and prospects in ancient metagenomcis
Jon Anders Eriksson
University of Tartu
Estonia
The influence of population admixtures on the
evolution of complex human traits: insights from genomic, phenotypic and functional data
17:00 – 17:15 CLOSING REMARKS

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