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