The European Society
of Human Genetics

Session Overview

Session Overview

Plenary Sessions

PL0. Opening - Welcome Addresses
Saturday, May 21
14.00 - 14.30 hrs
Plenary Hall
PL1. Opening Plenary Session
Saturday, May 21
14.30 - 16.00 hrs
Plenary Hall
PL2. What's New?
Saturday, May 21
16.30 - 20.00 hrs
Plenary Hall
PL3. Interactive Debate - My Vision of Genomic Medicine
Tuesday, May 24
9.00 - 10.30 hrs
Plenary Hall
PL4. Mendel Lecture
Tuesday, May 24
13.30 - 14.15 hrs
Plenary Hall
PL5. ESHG Award Lecture, EJHG Nature Awards, Young Investigator & Poster Awards, Closing
Tuesday, May 24
14.15 - 15.45 hrs
Plenary Hall

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Concurrent Symposia

S01. The future lies in uncertainty (joint with EMPAG)
Sunday, May 22
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Plenary Hall
S02. Understanding functional effects of genomic  variants
Sunday, May 22
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 112
S03. Hereditary cancer
Sunday, May 22
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 117
S04. From families to populations and back
Sunday, May 22
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 113+114
S05. Circulating Cell-Free Nucleic Acids
Sunday, May 22
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Plenary Hall
S06. Behavioural disorders
Sunday, May 22
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Room 112
S07. Long distance regulation of transcription and translation
Sunday, May 22
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Room 117
S08. Sensory disorders
Sunday, May 22
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Room 113+114
S09. Building Bridges Symposium: Debating germline genome editing (joint with the ASHG & EMPAG)
Monday, May 23
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Plenary Hall
S10. Brain genetics
Monday, May 23
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 112
S11. Human genomics: transcriptome, proteome and interactome
Monday, May 23
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 117
S12. SeX and the citY
Monday, May 23
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 113+114
S13. Reproductive genetics and genomics
Monday, May 23
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Plenary Hall
S14. Epigenetic reprogramming in disease
Monday, May 23
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Room 112
S15. Therapy in rare diseases
Monday, May 23
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Room 117
S16. Cardiovascular genetics (joint with the ESC)
Monday, May 23
17.45 - 19.15 hrs
Room 113+114

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Concurrent Sessions

C01 Reproductive GeneticsSaturday, May 21
18.30 - 20.00 hrs
Plenary Hall

C02 Intellectual Disability

Saturday, May 21
18.30 - 20.00 hrs
Room 112
C03 Mutational MechanismsSaturday, May 21
18.30 - 20.00 hrs
Room 117
C04 Complex TraitsSaturday, May 21
18.30 - 20.00 hrs
Room 113+114
C05 Hereditary CancerSaturday, May 21
18.30 - 20.00 hrs
Room 115+116
C06 Carrier and Newborn Screening  joint with EMPAGSaturday, May 21
18.30 - 20.00 hrs
Room 111
C07 Genome Technology in the ClinicSunday, May 22
13.00 - 14.30 hrs
Plenary Hall
C08 Sharing and Mining Omics Data
Sunday, May 22
13.00 - 14.30 hrs
Room 112
C09 Prenatal Decision Making (joint with EMPAG)Sunday, May 22
13.00 - 14.30 hrs
Room 117
C10 Epigenetic mechanisms in development and diseaseSunday, May 22 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 113+114
C11 Neurogenetic and Neuromuscular disordersSunday, May 22 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 115+116
C12 Molecular DysmorphologySunday, May 22 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 111
C13 Prenatal Genetics and carrier screeningMonday, May 23 13.00 - 14.30 hrsPlenary Hall
C14 Cancer Genetics: From modeling to profilingMonday, May 23 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 112
C15 Neurogenetic disordersMonday, May 23 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 117
C16 Bioinformatics, statistical and population geneticsMonday, May 23 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 113+114
C17 Metabolic and mitochondrial disorders
Monday, May 23 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 115+116
C18 Eye Disorders
Monday, May 23 13.00 - 14.30 hrsRoom 111
C19 Big data Analyses of Intellectual DisabilityTuesday, May 24
11.00 - 12.30 hrs
Plenary Hall
C20 Gene Editing: To Fear or to Cheer? (joint with EMPAG)Tuesday, May 24
11.00 - 12.30 hrs
Room 112
C21 Disorders with skin abnormalitiesTuesday, May 24
11.00 - 12.30 hrs
Room 117
C22 Cardiovascular disordersTuesday, May 24
11.00 - 12.30 hrs
Room 113+114
C23 Functional GenomicsTuesday, May 24
11.00 - 12.30 hrs
Room 115+116
C24 Rare Disease Gene DiscoveriesTuesday, May 24
11.00 - 12.30 hrs
Room 111

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Workshops

W01. Big data in human genetics: opportunities and challenges?Saturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 112
W02. A case that changed my life as a geneticistSaturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 117
W03. Career development and funding opportunities for young investigatorsSaturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 113+114
W04. PharmacogenomicsSaturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 118+119
W05. NGS in the ClinicSunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Plenary Hall
W06. Dysmorphology 1Sunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 112
W07. Copy Number Variant Interpretation and ClassificationSunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 117
W08. Pre-conception carrier testingSunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 113+114
W09. How to get publishedSunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 115+116
W10. Genome Browser UCSCSunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 111
W11. Gene regulation Sunday, May 22
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 118+119
W12. European landscape of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis
Monday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Plenary Hall
W13. Dysmorphology 2 Monday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 112
W14. CRISPR CAS9 tips and tricksMonday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 117
W15. Rare Diseases and clinical trials (clinical research protocols)Monday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 113+114
W16. ENSEMBLMonday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 115+116
W17. Clinical Cancer GeneticsMonday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 111
W18. The clinic: From face-to-face to interfaceMonday, May 23
15.00 - 16.30 hrs
Room 118+119

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Educational Sessions

E1. Novel genome sequencing technologies
Saturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Plenary Hall
E2. Genetic Privacy and Data Sharing (joint with EMPAG)
Saturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 115+116
E3. Generation and use of Induced pluripotent stem cells
Saturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 111
E4. Peroxisomal disorders -still a need for metabolic assays?
Saturday, May 21
10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Room 122+123
E5. Ciliopathies
Sunday, May 22
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 115+116
E6. Cost-effectiveness in genetic testing
Sunday, May 22
11.45 - 13.15 hrs
Room 115+116
E7. Cleaning the noise from Big Data
Monday, May 23
8.30 - 10.00 hrs
Room 115+116
E8. Clinical interpretation of genetic variants
Monday, May 23
17.30 - 19.00 hrs
Room 115+116

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