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 |