Programme at a Glance

Programme at a GlanceOscar Pacheco2023-03-02T15:11:44+02:00

Please note that all times below refer to British Summer Time (GMT +1)

Sessions with Focus on Ethical, Legal, Psychological, Aspects in Genetics (ELPAG) – open to all attendees
Sessions proposed by the ESHG-Young Committee – open to all attendees

Saturday, June 10, 2023

08:30 – 10:00	Educational Sessions E01 – E02 E01 New technologies: Recent advances in sequencing technologies E02 Not only DNA editing: Gentler ways to tweak genes	Concurrent Symposia S01 S01 Translational metabolism: From inborn errors of metabolism to multifactorial diseases
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:30	Corporate Satellites
10:30 – 12:00	Educational Sessions E03 – E05 E03 Let’s get up to date on blood cancer genetics and genomics E04 Harnessing pleiotropy E05 Therapeutic Gene Editing in Europe: What will it take to make it happen?	Workshop W01 – W04 W01 Exome sequencing for beginners W02 Dysmorphology I W03 Termination of pregnancy: Legislation and ethics W04 EJHG: How to publish your genomics research
12:00 – 13:45	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:15	ESHG Podcast Live – Click here to listen to preview episodes
12:15 – 13:45	Get2gether EBMG/UEMS-SMG
12:00 – 13:30	Corporate Satellites
13:45 – 14:15	PL0 Welcoming addresses
14:15 – 15:00	PL1 ESHG Award Lecture
15:00 – 16:00	PL2 Opening Plenary
16:00 – 16:30	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00	PL3 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07
20:00-21:30	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 11, 2023

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S02 – S06 S02 Sex differences in neurodevelopmental disorders S03 Application of GWAS in social sciences S04 Honoring diversity: Toward culturally competent genetic counseling S05 Oligogenics in rare disease S06 Treatment for interferonopathies	Educational Session E06 & E07 E06 Spatial transcriptomics/cell lineages E07 Opportunities and challenges for personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C15
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:15	Get2gether European Reference Networks
12:15 – 13:15	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 15:30	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Geneticists on call for cancer genomics W06 Are we ready for genomic newborn screening? W07 Dysmorphology 2 W08 Let’s talk about genetics and language W09 Structural variants W10 Variant classification W11 Using the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)
14:00 – 15:30	Corporate Satellites
15:30 – 15:45	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
15:45 – 16:45	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group B) – Only for in-person participants
16:45 – 17:00	Time to change rooms
17:00 – 18:30	Concurrent Symposia S07 – S10 S07 Understanding pre-cancer: Molecular analysis to clinical cancer prevention S08 Exploiting new approaches in GWAS S09 Data Altruism and future of data sharing in genomics S10 Somatic mutations in immune disorders	Educational Sessions E08-E10 E08 Should we be routinely returning results from genomic research? E09 Epilepsy: Genetics & Treatment – A local perspective E10 Spinal Muscular Atrophy Treatments
18:30 – 20:00	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 12, 2023

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S11 – S15 S11 Complete genomes S12 Organ-on-a-chip to model genetic disease S13 Leveraging genetic studies for drug discovery S14 Precision medicine in renal cancer S15 Placenta: The forgotten organ	Educational Sessions E11 – E12 E11 Genetics care for Trans and Gender Diverse Patients: From Medicalization to Empowerment E12 RASopathies
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C16 – C23
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 15:30	Workshops W12 – W18 W12 Interpreting NGS variants W13 Fetal exome sequencing in clinical practice: Practicalities and Pitfalls W14 Mutations we almost missed W15 GenEthics W16 Climate Emergency/Sustainable Service Delivery in Genomics W17 Pharmacogenetics: From the basics to hands-on exercises W18 Clinical Genetics and Imprinting Disorders: Experiences from Genetic Testing and Counselling
14:00 – 15:30	Get2gether IVDR
14:00 – 15:30	Corporate Satellites
15:30 – 15:45	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
15:45 – 16:45	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group D) – Only for in-person participants
16:45 – 17:00	Time to change rooms
17:00 – 18:30	Concurrent Symposia S16 – S20 S16 High-throughput functional analysis of variants S17 Long reads for solving old problems S18 Co-creating research with participants S19 Addressing diversity in the genomic world S20 Personalized preventive oncology for children and adolescents	Educational Session E13 – E14 E13 New mutations and evolution E14 3D genomes explained
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S21 – S24 S21 Gene-disease relationships S22 Diagnostics in prenatal setting – the present and the future S23 Beyond coding point mutations: New mutation types in cancer S24 Health Economics in Genomic Medicine	Educational Sessions E15 – E16 E15 Diagnosis and treatment of genetic hearing loss E16 PGR: How close is it to clinical applicability
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C24 – C29
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15	PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:15 – 14:30	PL5 ESHG Education Award
14:30 – 14:45	PL6 ELPAG Award
14:45 – 15:45	PL7 Awards Session EJHG Citation Awards ESHG Early Career Awards European DNA Day Contest Closing Address

Programme and speakers are subject to change.

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Saturday, June 6, 2020

	Live Sessions	On-demand Sessions – Always Available
09:00 – 11:00	Education Sessions E01 E01 New Technologies	Education Sessions E02-E16 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters! E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondrial Diagnostics E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques? E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E16 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
		Workshops Wxx-Wxx W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance – To be confirmed W04 ESHG-Y – To be confirmed
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 12:45	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07 C01 From Carrier Screening to Infertility and Fetal Diagnostics C02 Intellectual Disability C03 Novel Bioinformatic and Machine-Learning Methods	Corporate Satellites
12:45 – 13:00	Break
13:00 – 14:30	Corporate Satellites
14:30 – 14:45	Break
14:45 – 16:15	PL1 Opening Plenary Session
14:30 – 14:45	Break
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:15	Break
18:15 – 19:45	Concurrent Sessions C04 – C07 C04 Basic Research in Cancer C05 Elucidating the Function of Cardiac Genes C06 Sensory Disorders C07 Impact of Genomic Medicine on Public and Patients

Sunday, June 7, 2020

	Live Sessions	On-demand Sessions – Always Available
08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S04 S01 What to Expect from Prenatal Diagnosis S02 Liquid Biopsy for early Detection of Cancer S03 Our Ancestry S04 Public and Patient Engagement	Education Sessions E02-E16 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters! E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondrial Diagnostics E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques? E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E16 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:45	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C12 C08 Impact of Diagnostics Improvements in Healthcare C09 Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders C10 Rare and Common Variants in Personalized Medicine C11 Multiple Malformation Syndromes I C12 Neuropsychiatry
11:45 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 13:45	Poster Viewing with Authors
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops Wxx – Wxx	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome and Genome Variant Interpretation W06 Prenatal Diagnosis – To be confirmed W07 “Treatabolome”: A Treatment Awareness Project for Rare Diseases W08 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? – To be confirmed W09 UCSC Genome Browser – To be confirmed W11 Pharmacogenomics in Practice – To be confirmed
14:45 – 15:15	Break
15:15 – 16:45	Concurrent Symposia S05 – S08 S05 Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution S06 Making Sense out of Nonsense S07 Strategies and Applications in Translating GWAS to Function S07 Cardiovascular Genetics
16:45 – 17:00	Break
17:00 – 18:30	Concurrent Sessions C13-C16 C13 3D Genome Architecture C14 Internal Organs C15 Best Posters Session 1 C16 The Interplay of Law, Policy and Genomics
18:30 – 18:45	Break
18:45 – 20:15	Corporate Satellites

Saturday, June 6, 2020

08:00 – 10:00	Educational Session E01 New Technologies
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:30	Corporate Satellites
10:30 – 12:00	Education Sessions E02-E04 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes	Workshops W01-W04 W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance W02 Dysmorphology I W03 Molecular Newborn Screening vs. Newborn Testing W04 GenEthics
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:45	Corporate Satellites
14:00 – 14:30	PL0 Welcoming Addresses
14:30 – 16:00	PL1 Opening Plenary Session
16:00 – 16:30	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07 C01 From Carrier Screening to Infertility and Fetal Diagnostics C02 Intellectual Disability C03 Novel Bioinformatic and Machine-Learning Methods C04 Basic Research in Cancer C05 Elucidating the Function of Cardiac Genes C06 Sensory Disorders C07 Impact of Genomic Medicine on Public and Patients
20:00 – 22:00	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 7, 2020

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S05 S01 What to Expect from Prenatal Diagnosis S02 Multi-omics Approaches for Diagnosing Rare Diseases S03 Liquid Biopsy for early Detection of Cancer S04 Our Ancestry S05 Public and Patient Engagement	Educational Sessions E05-E06 E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters!
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C15 C08 Impact of Diagnostics Improvements in Healthcare C09 Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders C10 Rare and Common Variants in Personalized Medicine C11 Multiple Malformation Syndromes I C12 Neuropsychiatry C13 3D Genome Architecture C14 Internal Organs C15 Best Posters 1
12:00 – 13:00	Concurrent Sessions C16 C16 The Interplay of Law, Policy and Genomics
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A)
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome and Genome Variant Interpretation W06 Prenatal Diagnosis W07 “Treatabolome”: A Treatment Awareness Project for Rare Diseases W08 Science Communication W09 UCSC Genome Browser W10 Community Genetics: Prospects for Curing Genetic Disorders W11 Pharmacogenomics in Practice
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group B)
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S06 – S09 S06 Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution S07 Making Sense out of Nonsense S08 Strategies and Applications in Translating GWAS to Function S09 Cardiovascular Genetics	Educational Sessions E07-E09 E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondria Diagnostics
19:00 – 20:00	ESHG Membership Meeting
19:00 – 20:30	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 8, 2020

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S10- S14 S10 Beyond Mendelian Inheritance S11 Single Cell Cancer Genetics S12 Embryo and Placenta: Equal Partners S13 Where Science and Ethics Meet S14 Lysosomes in Health and Disease	Educational Sessions E10-E11 E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations
08:30- 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C17 – C24 C17 New Therapeutic Approaches C18 Clinical Cancer Research C19 Multiple Malformation Syndromes II C20 Neurogenetics C21 Methods and Applications of Association Studies in Large Cohorts C22 Immunology and Hematology C23 Counselling, Communication and Deliberation C24 Best Posters 2
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
12:15 – 13:00	PL3 ELPAG Award Lecture
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C)
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W12 – W18 W12 Copy Number Variant Interpretation and Classification W13 Dysmorphology II W14 Exome Pipelines for Clinicians W15 Using the Ensembl VEP for analysing Variants in Rare and Common Disease W16 Genetic Counselling Models for Genomic Screening W17 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? W18 Reproducible and transparent Analysis with Galaxy
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group D)
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S15 – S18 S15 ESHG-ASHG Building Bridges Session on Polygenic Risk Scores: Risky or Useful in the Clinic? S16 Detection of Structural Variation S17 Genetic Mechanisms in Haematological Neoplasias S18 Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and Cohesinopathies	Educational Sessions E12-E13 E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques?
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S19- S21 S19 Clonal Fitness of Somatic Mutations S20 Data-driven Genomic Care and its Implementation in the Clinic: A Paradigm Shift S21 Integrating Large-scale Functional Data into Genome-wide Association Studies	Educational Sessions E14-E16 E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E15 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C25 – C31 C25 New Technologies and Approaches C26 Genome Variation and Architecture C27 Late Breaking Session C28 Neurodevelopment C29 Skin & Bones C30 Polygenic Risk Scores: From Tool to Practice C31 Shaping the Genomic Medicine Era
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30	PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:30 – 15:30	PL5 ESHG Award Lecture
15:30 – 16:15	PL6 Awards Session ESHG Education Award EJHG Citation Awards ESHG Awards for Best Presentations by Young Investigators Closing