Human Genetics' Coming Home
On behalf of ESHG and ESHGy, many ESHG/European speakers at ICHG offer at least 5 virtual 1h lectures each to any African institution for genetic education/research. Find below the list of speakers:
List of Speakers
| Name | Institute | Contact | Topics |
| Dr. Stefan Barakat | Departement Of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam | t.barakat(at)erasmusmc.nl | Noncoding genome, gene regulation, functional genomics, neurodevelopmental disorders, disease modelling, pluripotent stem cells, zebrafish |
| Sir John Burn | Newcastle University Translational and Clinical research Institute | donna.job(at)ncl.ac.uk | Cancer Genetics |
| Prof. David Curtis MD PhD | UCL Genetics Institute, University College London | d.curtis(at)ucl.ac.uk | Human genetics, psychiatric genetics especially schizophrenia genetics and analysis of sequence data in large case-control and biobank datasets |
| Dr. Sofia Douzgou Houge | Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway | sofia.douzgou.houge(at)helse-bergen.no | What patients and families taught me: Clinical and Genomic Dysmorphology |
| Dr. Yvonne (Maria) Hoedemaekers | Radboud university medical center | yvonne.hoedemaekers(at)radboudumc.nl | cardiogenetics (cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, dyslipidemia) |
| Prof. Alexander Hoischen | Radboudumc, Radboud university medical center | alexander.hoischen(at)radboudumc.nl | Genomic technologies (long-read sequencing, optical genome mapping, exome sequencing); rare disease research; inborn errors of immunity |
| Dr. Peter Krawitz | Institute for Genomic Statistics and Bioinformatics, Bonn, Germany | pkrawitz(at)uni-bonn.de | AI-assisted dysmorphology with GestaltMatcher |
| Prof. Tjitske Kleefstra | ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, Netherlands | t.kleefstra(at)erasmusmc.nl | Genetic neurodevelopmental disorders/syndromes |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Nothnagel | University of Cologne | mnothnag(at)uni-koeln.de | Genetic epidemiology, human population genetics, forensic genetics |
| Dr. Gudrun A. Rappold | Institute of Human Genetics, University of Heidelberg | gudrun.rappold(at)med.uni-heidelberg.de | Psychiatric genetics, cardiogenetics. Transcription factors; short and tall stature, pigment disorders (albinism) |
| Prof. Alexandre Reymond | Center for Integrative Genomics University of Lausanne | alexandre.reymond(at)unil.ch | CNVs, gene regulation, genomics, intellectual disability |
| Dr. Sonia Van Dooren | Vrije University Brussel | sonia.vandooren(at)uzbrussel.be | Cardiogenetics |
| Dr. Miikka Vikkula | De Duve Institute, University of Louvain | Miikka.vikkula(at)uclouvain.be | Genetic findings and pathophysiology of vascular anomalies, lymphedema, and cleft lip and palate |
| Dr. Anja Wagner | Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam | a.wagner(at)erasmusmc.nl | Lynch syndrome and Polyposis syndromes, oncogenetic subjects including moleculair tumor testing |
| Dr. Laura Wiseman Harris | European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK | ljwh(at)ebi.ac.uk | Preparation and submission of GWAS summary statistics, general use of the GWAS Catalog for research |
| Prof. Alexandra Zhernakova, MD, PhD | University of Groningen | sasha.zhernakova(at)gmail.com | Microbiome |
If you are from an African Institution and would be interested in getting access to the recorded presentation of the ESHG Clinical Genomics and NGS Course at Bertinoro please contact office@eshg.org.