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09.00 - 19.00 - All times mentioned below follow Estonian time (UTC +2)

“The organizers of the conference reserve the right to make changes to the event.”

DAY 1

8:30 - 09:00
REGISTRATION
9:00 - 09:15
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

WELCOME

Toomas Asser

Rector
University of Tartu, Estonia

9:15 - 10:00

KEYNOTE 

Virginijus Šikšnys

Distinguished professor, Vilnius University
Chief scientist/head of the department,  the Institute of Biotechnology of Vilnius University
Chairman of the board, Life Science Center

Talk title – New tools for genome editing: from CRISPR-Cas to transposon-associated proteins

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

SESSION I - GENOMICS OF MONOGENIC DISORDERS

MODERATOR 

Sander Pajusalu
10:30 – 11:00
Monkol Lek

Department of Genetics
Yale School of Medicine, USA

Talk title – High throughput functional assays to improve interpretation of rare variants discovered in neuromuscular disease genes

11:00 – 11:30
Angela Lek

VP of research
Muscular Dystrophy Association, USA

Talk title – Promises and challenges of translating genetic therapies for neuromuscular disorders

11:30 – 12:00
Bjarne Udd

Professor
Tampere Neuromuscular Center and Folkhälsan Research Center Helsinki, Finland

Talk title – Multisystem proteinopathies MSPs – neurodegeneration, +/- muscle, +/- bone

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch break

SESSION II - PHARMACOGENOMICS

MODERATOR

Lili Milani
13:30 – 14:00
Mikko Niemi

Professor, MD, PhD,
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Helsinki, Finland

Talk title – Pharmacogenetics of lipid-lowering therapy

14:00 – 14:30
Espen Molden

Adjunct Professor
Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Norway

Talk title – The power of therapeutic drug monitoring data in pharmacogenomic studies

14:30 – 15:00
Jesse J. Swen

Professor
PharmD PhD, Netherlands

Talk title – Implementing Pharmacogenomic panel testing in Europe: Results from the U-PGx PREPARE study

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee break

SESSION III - PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

MODERATOR

Pärt Peterson
15:30 – 16:00
Andrea Ganna

FIMM-EMBL group leader
Institute for Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Finland

Talk title – Can genetic associations for disease onset be used to predict disease prognosis?

16:00 – 16:30
Kadi Lõhmussaar

PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Prof. Kim Jensen lab
The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Copenhagen, Denmark

Talk title – Adult stem cell-derived 3D organoids in modelling tissues in health and disease

16:30 – 16:50
Tiffany Morris

Illumina
Staff Market Development Manager

Talk title – Latest Advancements for Illumina WGS

16:50 – 19:00

Poster session and opportunity to visit an Estonian National Museum exhibition (tickets available on site)

19:00 onwards

GALA DINNER AT ESTONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

DAY 2

8:30 - 09:00
REGISTRATION

SESSION IV - MICROBIOME

MODERATOR

Elin Org
09:00 – 09:30
Karsten Kristiansen

Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine
Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, BGI-Research, Shenzhen, China, and Institute of Metagenomics, Qingdao-Europe Advanced Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao, China

Talk title – The microbiota – Everything Everywhere All at Once 

09:30 – 10:00
Susanne Brix Pedersen

Prof, PhD, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Talk title – Early life host-microbiota interactions and later disease development

10:00 - 10:30
Anne Salonen

PhD, Human Microbiome Research Program
University of Helsinki, Finland

Talk title – Mother-infant microbiome interface in early development and reproduction.

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break

SESSION V - SINGLE CELL OMICS

MODERATOR

Kaur Alasoo
11:00 – 11:30
Rickard Sandberg

Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Talk title – Novel strategies to study transcriptional dynamics and alternative splicing in single cells.

11:30 – 12:00
Monique van der Wijst

Assistant professor
University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen
Department of Genetics, Groningen, the Netherlands

Talk title – Single-cell consortium for federated PBMC data pipeline for cell-type-specific eQTL mapping and downstream analyses

12:00 – 12:30
Emma Davenport

Group Leader
Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

Talk title – Using functional genomics to understand disease heterogeneity

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

SESSION VI - MENTAL HEALTH

MODERATOR

Kelli Lehto
14.00 - 14:30
Eivind Ystrøm

Professor
University of Oslo, Norway

Talk title – Genes as environments – intergenerational transmission of mental health in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort study

14:30 – 15:00
Alfonso Buil Demur

Research leader, Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Services, Copenhagen University Hospital
Associate professor, Lundbeck Foundation Center for GeoGenetics, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Talk title – Leveraging national registers to study psychiatric genetics in Denmark

15:00 – 15:30
Sara Hägg

PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Talk title – Human genetic studies of aging and their implications for precision health

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

SESSION VII - POPULATION GENETICS

MODERATOR

Mait Metspalu
16:00 – 16:30
Karoline Kuchenbäcker

Professor
Division of Psychiatry, University College London; UCL Genetics Institute, Genes Evolution and Environment, University College London; Genomics England, United Kingdom

Talk title – Genomic medicine for ancestrally diverse populations

16:30 – 17:00
Ida Moltke

Associate professor
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Talk title – An example of how valuable disease studies in historically small and isolated populations can be

17:00 – 17:20

Closing remarks

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