Location: Lecture Hall 2
Address: Biomedicum 1, Haartmaninkatu 8, P-floor, Meilahti campus, Helsinki, Finland.
Day 1: September 10th, 2018
Session I: GENETIC DISCOVERY
Chair: Samuli Ripatti
8:30 | Morning coffee |
9:00 | Andres Metspalu (University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Center) and Samuli Ripatti (FIMM, University of Helsinki) Opening words |
9:15 | Samuli Ripatti (FIMM, University of Helsinki) FinnGen large-scale genomics study and collaboration with pharma industry |
9:30 | Emmanouil Dermitzakis (University of Geneva Medical School) The contribution of non-coding DNA to complex disease and cancer |
10:00 | Alexandre Reymond (University of Lausanne) Genome architecture and disease |
10:30 | Stretch break |
11:00 | Mark Daly (FIMM, University of Helsinki & Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) Beyond GWAS: next steps in human genetics |
11:30 |
Speed talks: 5 speakers (doctoral candidates/ postdocs selected from abstracts) Adriana Di Battista (University of Lausanne): Balanced X-autosome translocations-induced chromatin reorganization and gene expression |
12:00 |
Lunch break "Lunch & Learn" for selected doctoral candidates |
Session II: COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS
Chair: Matti Pirinen
13:00 | Team talk: Making precision oncology a reality Jing Tang group (FIMM, University of Helsinki) |
13:30 | Zoltan Kutalik (Lausanne University Hospital) Fifty shades of obesity genetics |
14:00 | Coffee break & Poster session |
14:45 | Matthew Robinson (University of Lausanne) Designing Bayesian learning models for large datasets |
15:15 | Bart Deplancke (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL) Understanding regulatory variation in humans using variable chromatin modules |
15:45 |
Speed talks: 3 speakers (doctoral candidates/ postdocs selected from abstracts) Kaur Alasoo (University of Tartu): Genetic effects on promoter usage are highly context-specific and contribute to complex traits |
16:00 |
Networking & Poster session (with Wine & Cheese) Poster presenters Sailalitha Bollepalli (FIMM, University of Helsinki): Epigenetic smoking status estimation |
19:00 Dinner (with invitations)
Day 2: September 11th, 2018
Session III: GENETIC TRANSLATION: individuals
Chair: Elisabeth Widén
8:30 | Morning coffee |
8:45 | Team talk: Primary Immunodeficiencies - from bedsite to bench and back Janna Saarela (FIMM, University of Helsinki) & Timi Martelius (HUS) |
9:15 | Elin Org (University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Center) The interplay between gut microbiota and type 2 diabetes |
9:45 | Mikko Niemi (University of Helsinki) Pharmacogenetics - from discovery to clinical implementation |
10:15 |
Speed talks: 3 speakers (doctoral candidates/ postdocs selected from abstracts) Kristi Läll (University of Tartu): Polygenic prediction of breast cancer |
10:30 | Stretch & coffee break |
Session IV: GENETIC TRANSLATION: population health
Chair: Alexandre Reymond
11:00 | Elisabeth Widén (FIMM, University of Helsinki) Implementing genome-based predictive and preventive medicine: the GeneRISK follow-up study |
11:30 | Krista Fischer (University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Center) From GWAS to personalized risk prediction of common complex diseases – methodological challenges and experiences in the Estonian Biobank |
12:00 | Maris Alver (University of Tartu, Estonian Genome Center) Recall by genotype and cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia in a population-based biobank |
12:30 | Closing words & awarding the best poster & talk (by a doctoral candidate/ post-doc) |
13:00 ePerMed SAB lunch meeting (ePerMed partners and SAB members)
FIMM meeting room, Biomedicum 2, 3rd floor, D307a