The European Society
of Human Genetics

Human Genetics' Coming Home

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@erasmusmc.nl Noncoding genome, gene regulation, functional genomics, neurodevelopmental disorders, disease modelling, pluripotent stem cells, zebrafish
Prof. David Curtis MD PhD UCL Genetics Institute, University College London d.curtis@ucl.ac.uk Human genetics, psychiatric genetics especially schizophrenia genetics and analysis of sequence data in large case-control and biobank datasets
Dr. Yvonne (Maria) Hoedemaekers Radboud university medical center yvonne.hoedemaekers@radboudumc.nl cardiogenetics (cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, dyslipidemia)
Prof. Alexander Hoischen Radboudumc, Radboud university medical center alexander.hoischen@radboudumc.nl Genomic technologies (long-read sequencing, optical genome mapping, exome sequencing); rare disease research; inborn errors of immunity
Prof. Dr. Michael Nothnagel University of Cologne mnothnag@uni-koeln.de Genetic epidemiology, human population genetics, forensic genetics
Prof. Alexandre Reymond Center for Integrative Genomics University of Lausanne alexandre.reymond@unil.ch CNVs, gene regulation, genomics, intellectual disability
Dr. Sonia Van Dooren Vrije University Brussel sonia.vandooren@uzbrussel.be Cardiogenetics
Dr. Miikka Vikkula De Duve Institute, University of Louvain Miikka.vikkula@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@erasmusmc.nl Lynch syndrome and Polyposis syndromes, oncogenetic subjects including moleculair tumor testing
Prof. Alexandra Zhernakova, MD, PhD University of Groningen sasha.zhernakova@gmail.com Microbiome