Programme at a Glance

Programme at a GlanceOscar Pacheco2024-05-07T14:45:43+02:00

Pre-conference courses

(separate registration needed)

Thursday, May 30, 2024

09:00 – 18:00 Workshop on History of Human Genetics

09:00 – 17:00 Clinical NGS Data Interpretation Course

Friday, May 31, 2024

09:00 – 17:00 Workshop on History in Human Genetics

09:00 – 17:00 Clinical NGS Data Interpretation Course

12:00 – 17:00 ACMG – AMP classification system

Conference programme

Saturday, June 1, 2024

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S03 S01 Paleogenomics as a tool to elucidate the genetic basis of modern diseases S02 The place of non-directiveness in genetic counselling revisited S03 The urinary bladder: from discovery to treatment
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:30	Corporate Satellites
10:30 – 12:00	Educational Sessions E01 – E02 E01 Telomeres in cancer E02 Germline mosaicism: contribution to disease, diagnostics options and counselling	Workshop W01 – W05 W01 Exome sequencing for beginners W02 Dysmorphology 1 W03 How to make the most of your clinical database and other large-scale biomedical databases W04 Promoting research in the field of genetic counseling W05 Interpretation of variants using the Ensembl Variation resources	Concurrent Symposia S04 S04 Understanding the non coding genome
12:00 – 13:45	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:15	ESHG Podcast “Genetic Sounds” Live – Click here to listen to previous episodes
12:15 – 13:45	G01 Meet the next generation – Get2Gether of the national junior research groups and the ESHG-Y
12:00 – 13:30	Corporate Satellites
13:45 – 14:15	PL0 Welcoming addresses
14:15 – 14:30	PL1 ELPAG Award Lecture
14:30 – 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 – C08 C01 Genetics and Multiomics C02 Reproductive genetics C03 Structural Variants C04 Novel genes in neurogenetic disorders C05 Genetic contributions to cancer risk and clinical management C06 Skin and Bones C07 Cardiovascular genetics C08 Implementing genomic screening
20:00-21:30	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 2, 2024

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S05 – S11 S05 GWAS of disease progression: are we there yet? S06 Genetic Infertility S07 Editing in cardiovascular disease S08 Precision Oncology S09 Assessing variants at scale S10 Expanding newborn screening towards genomics S11 Epilepsy genetics
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C09 – C17 C09 Omics and Pharmacogenetics C10 Genomes for the undiagnosed C11 Novel genes in Intellectual disability C12 Germline and somatic mechanisms in cancer C13 Exploring cellular signatures C14 Sensory disorders C15 Population and Evolutionary Genetics C16 Neuromuscular omics C17 Best Poster 1
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
12:15 – 13:15	G02 ERNs integration into National Health Systems: the role of the Genetics workforce
12:15 – 13:45	Workshop W06 W06 How to publish your genomics research
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 15:30	Workshops W07 – W14 W07 Towards equity in genomics and genomic medicine W08 Mutations we almost missed W09 Prenatal reporting of carrier status W10 Dysmorphology 2 W11 UCSC Genome Browser W12 GenEthics W13 Family communication of genetic information W14 Diagnosing cerebral palsy – who to test and how to manage a clinical vs genetic diagnosis
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 S12 – S16 S12 Things that RNAs can do that we did not know about S13 Integrative genomics: opportunities for disease prevention S14 Long-read sequencing in the clinic S15 Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic conditions S16 Sex and the Single Cell	Educational Sessions E03-E04 E03 AI meets genomics E04 Genetic Skeletal Disorders (GSD): from diagnosis to treatment
18:45 – 20:15	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 3, 2024

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S17 – S21 S17 Next generation functional genomics: variant effects at the single cell level S18 Advanced statistical methods in human genetics S19 Genomics in Africa S20 Who owns your genome? S21 Inherited Metabolic Diseases	Educational Sessions E05 – E06 E05 Next generation cytogenetics E06 Genetics of Speech Disorders
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C18 – C26 C18 New technologies to identify causal variants C19 Treatments for Genetic Disorders C20 Large Scale Genetic Association Studies C21 Late Breaking Abstracts C22 What is in your brain? C23 Expanding the boundaries of genetic counselling C24 Immunology and Hematopoietic System C25 Liver, Kidney and Gonads C26 Best Poster 2
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
12:15 – 13:15	ESHG General Assembly
12:15 – 13:15	G03 Medical Genetics Professionals: how can we fit future requirements? G04 Marking a Milestone: Reflecting on a decade of providing NGS EQAs’ delivered jointly by GenQA and EMQN
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 15:30	Workshops W15 – W22 W15 From data sharing to data visiting: FAIR infrastructures for federated analysis of genomics data W16 Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay; research and diagnostic variant interpretation challenges W17 Structural chromosomal variants W18 Dysmorphology 3 W19 Software tools for the sharing & use of GWAS summary statistics and polygenic scores W20 Implementing pharmacogenetic testing into de clinics: let’s debate W21 Interpreting NGS variants in prenatal and/or complex settings W22 The science, guidance and experience of informed consent W23 How to use social media to communicate your science
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 S22 – S26 S22 Dosage sensitivity of human genetic disorders – clinical implications and therapeutic avenues S23 Predisposition, Molecular signatures and Treatment in Cancer S24 From single cell maps to function: disentangling the heterogeneity of complex diseases S25 Biogeographical definitions of population groups S26 Complete genomes	Educational Session E07 – E08 E07 Mental Health in Academia and Healthcare E08 FADS – from phenotype to genotype
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 4, 2024

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S27 – S30 S27 Psychiatric Genomics S28 Proteomics in human genetics and precision medicine S29 AI genomics: uses, ethics and regulatory issues S30 Repeat expansion diseases: progress and puzzles	Educational Sessions E09 – E10 E09 Understanding variant penetrance in the era of large-scale population-based sequencing studies E10 Crosstalk between germline variants and cancer treatment
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C27 – C33 C27 Prenatal diagnosis C28 Machine Learning and Statistics C29 Fantastic OMICS – Improved methods for diagnostics C30 Complexity of brain phenotypes C31 Somatic drivers in cancer C32 New syndromes in 2024 C33 Metabolic and Mitochondrial
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15	PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:15 – 15:00	PL5 ESHG Award Lecture
15:00 – 15:25	PL6 Awarding of the GfH Medal of Honour
15:25 – 16:00	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