Day 1: September 10th, 2018
Session I: GENETIC DISCOVERY
| 8:30 | Morning coffee |
| 9:00 | Aarno Palotie (FIMM, University of Helsinki & Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) FinnGen large-scale genomics study and collaboration with pharma industry |
| 9:30 | Emmanouil Dermitzakis (University of Geneva Medical School) Contribution of non-coding DNA to complex disease and cancer |
| 10:00 | Alexandre Reymond (University of Lausanne) Genome architecture and disease |
| 10:30 | Strecth break |
| 11:00 | Mark Daly (FIMM, University of Helsinki & Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) TBC |
| 11:30 | Speed talks: 5 speakers (doctoral candidates/ postdocs selected from abstracts) |
| 12:00 |
Lunch break "Lunch & Learn" for selected doctoral candidates |
Session II: COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS
| 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) |
| 16:00 | Networking & Poster session |
19:00 Dinner (with invitations)
Day 2: September 11th, 2018
Session III: GENETIC TRANSLATION: individuals
| 8:30 | Morning coffee |
| 8:45 | Team talk: title TBC Janna Saarela group (FIMM, University of Helsinki) |
| 9:15 | Elin Org (Tartu University, Estonian Genome Center) The interplay between gut microbiota and type 2 diabetes |
| 9:45 | Mikko Niemi (University of Helsinki) TBC |
| 10:15 | Speed talks: 3 speakers (doctoral candidates/ postdocs selected from abstracts) |
| 10:30 | Strecth & coffee break |
Session IV: GENETIC TRANSLATION: population health
| 11:00 | Elisabeth Widén (FIMM, University of Helsinki) Implementing genome-based predictive and preventive medicine: the GeneRISK follow-up study |
| 11:30 | Krista Fischer (Tartu University, Estonian Genome Center) From GWAS to personalized risk predicion of common complex diseases – methodological challenges and experiences in the Estonian Biobank |
| 12:00 | Maris Alver (Tartu University, 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