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Programme

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Tuesday, September 9th, 2025

8:30-9.00
Registration
8:30-9.00
9:00-9:15
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
9:00-9:15
9:15-9.50
Keynote
Eimear Kenny
Endowed Chair and Professor for Genomic Health at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

“Population Genetics in an Era of Genomic Health ”

9:15-9.50
9:50-10.45
Complex genomic approaches
Moderator Lili Milani

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 Rubinacci
FIMM-EMBL Group Leader at University of Helsinki and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

"Haplotype-informed methods to uncover novel disease mechanisms"


9:50-10.45
10.45-11.20
Coffee break
10.45-11.20
11.20-12.40
Reproductive genetics
Moderator Triin Laisk

Katherine Ruth
Lecturer in Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

“Insights from genome-wide analyses of female reproductive ageing”

Pol Sole-Navais
Group leader at the Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

"Genetic susceptibility to shorter gestational duration and preterm birth"

Taru Tukiainen
Senior Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Genetic insights into the lifelong health of women and children"
11.20-12.40
12.40-14.00
Lunch Break
12.40-14.00
14.00-15.20
Microbiome
Moderator Elin Org

Tove Fall
Professor of Molecular Epidemiology, Uppsala University, Sweden

“Genome-wide association study of the microbiome composition in four Nordic cohorts”

Rob Finn
Section Head & Senior Scientist, EMBL-EBI, UK

H Bjørn Nielsen
Chief Scientific Officer at Cmbio, Copenhagen, Denmark

"Status and Perspective on the Microbiome Field"

14.00-15.20
15.20-15.55
Coffee break
15.20-15.55
15.55-16.50
Disease mechanisms
Moderator Kaur Alasoo

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"

Stephen Burgess
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Univeristy of Cambridge, United Kingdom

"Mendelian randomization: How can genetics guide the design of clinical trials?"

15.55-16.50
16.50-17.20
POSTER SESSION
Moderator Triin Laisk

Poster presentation I
TBA

Poster presentation II
TBA

Poster presentation III
TBA
16.50-17.20
19.30- ...
Dinner at Estonian National Museum
19.30- ...

Wednesday, September 10th, 2025

9:00-10.20
Medical Genetics meets Big Data
Moderator Sander Pajusalu

Nicola Whiffin
Associate Professor, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

“Small nuclear RNAs in rare disease”

Peter Krawitz
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”

Aleš Maver
MD, PhD, Clinical institute of genomic medicine, UMCL Ljubljana, Slovenia

“The power of small – how Slovenia used genomics to transform diagnosis of genetic diseases”

9:00-10.20
10.20-11.00
Coffee break
10.20-11.00
11.00-12.20
Technological advances in the forefront of science
Moderator Lili Milani

Gold sponsor presentation I / TBA

Gold sponsor presentation II / TBA

Gold sponsor presentation III / TBA
11.00-12.20
12.20-13.35
Lunch Break
12.20-13.35
13.35-14.55
Human origins
Moderators Michae Dannemann and Mait Metspalu

Pontus Skoglund
The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom

Mari Sepp
Postdoctoral researcher, Heidelberg University, Germany

“Tracing cerebellum development and evolution with single-cell genomics”

Martin Kuhlwhilm
Assistant Professor, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria

“Understanding human uniqueness using hominin and primate genomic diversity”

13.35-14.55
14.55-15.30
Coffee break
14.55-15.30
15.30-16.25
Genomics based Clinical Trials
Moderator Pärt Peterson

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”

Joris Deelen
Associate professor at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands

“Metabolomics-based biomarkers of ageing; how to implement epidemiological findings into clinically relevant settings”

15.30-16.25
16.25- 17.00
Closing remarks

Announcing the winner of Artur Lind Scholarship

16.25- 17.00