Programme
The organizers of the event reserve the right to make changes to the programme
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Registration
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Keynote
Endowed Chair and Professor for Genomic Health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
“Population Genetics in an Era of Genomic Health ”
Complex genomic approaches
Olli Pietiläinen
Group Leader and senior scientist, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland
“Using multimodal, longitudinal data to explore clinical impact of genetic variants in psychotic disorders”
Simone RubinacciFIMM-EMBL Group Leader at University of Helsinki and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
"Haplotype-informed methods to uncover novel disease mechanisms"
Coffee break
Reproductive genetics
Katherine Ruth
Lecturer in Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
“Insights from genome-wide analyses of female reproductive ageing”
Group leader at the Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
"Genetic susceptibility to shorter gestational duration and preterm birth"
Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Genetic insights into the lifelong health of women and children"
Lunch Break
Microbiome
Tove Fall
Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Sweden
“Genome-wide association study of the microbiome composition in four Nordic cohorts”
Rob FinnSection Head & Senior Scientist, EMBL-EBI, UKH Bjørn Nielsen
Chief Scientific Officer at Cmbio, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Status and Perspective on the Microbiome Field"
Coffee break
Disease mechanisms
Hilary Martin
Group Leader in Human Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
"Insights into the genetics of neurodevelopmental conditions and traits from large British cohorts"
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Univeristy of Cambridge, United Kingdom
"Mendelian randomization: How can genetics guide the design of clinical trials?"
POSTER SESSION
Poster presentation I
TBAPoster presentation II
TBA
Poster presentation III
TBA
Dinner at Estonian National Museum
Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Medical Genetics meets Big Data
Nicola Whiffin
Associate Professor, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
“Small nuclear RNAs in rare disease”
Professor at Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics of the University Hospital Bonn and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
“GestaltMatcher: medical image analysis with AI in rare diseases”
MD, PhD, Clinical institute of genomic medicine, UMCL Ljubljana, Slovenia
“The power of small – how Slovenia used genomics to transform diagnosis of genetic diseases”
Coffee break
Technological advances in the forefront of science
Gold sponsor presentation I / TBAGold sponsor presentation II / TBA Gold sponsor presentation III / TBA
Lunch Break
Human origins
Pontus Skoglund
The Francis Crick Institute, United KingdomMari Sepp
Postdoctoral researcher, Heidelberg University, Germany
“Tracing cerebellum development and evolution with single-cell genomics”
Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
“Understanding human uniqueness using hominin and primate genomic diversity”
Coffee break
Genomics based Clinical Trials
Juulia Jylhävä
Senior Research Fellow and Group leader at Tampere University, Finland and Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
“Decoding biological aging and frailty through genomic methods”
Associate professor at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
“Metabolomics-based biomarkers of ageing; how to implement epidemiological findings into clinically relevant settings”
Closing remarks
Announcing the winner of Artur Lind Scholarship