Programme at a Glance – ESHG Conference 2022

Programme at a GlanceOscar Pacheco2022-06-17T10:19:04+02:00

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Sessions included in the “ELPAG” Track

Saturday, June 11, 2022

08:00 – 10:00	Educational Sessions E01 New technologies: In vivo gene editing
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:30	Corporate Satellites
10:30 – 12:00	Educational Sessions E02-E07 E02 Genetics, 200 years after the births of Mendel and Galton E03 ICHG 2023: Genetics coming home E04 ESHG-Y: Filling the gaps by publishing negative results in genetics E05 Mosaicism E06 Genetic discrimination: Surveying the ethico-legal landscape E07 Progress of imputation	Workshop W01 W01 Exome analysis for beginners
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:45	ESHG Podcast “Genetic Sounds” Live – Click here to listen to preview episodes
12:15 – 13:45	Corporate Satellites
14:00 – 14:30	PL0 Welcoming addresses
14:30 – 16:00	PL1 Opening Plenary
16:00 – 16:30	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07
20:00-21:30	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 12, 2022

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S06 S01 Reproductive carrier screening in 2022 S02 Methods for admixed populations S03 Personalized care in breast cancer patients S04 How do we deliver genomics education for all? S05 Chromothripsis and complex rearrangements S06 Disorders of lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy	Educational Session E08 E08 Host genetics and COVID-19
08:30 – 10:00	Breakfast Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C15
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:15 – 13:15	*How to get published in the European Journal of Human Genetics*
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 14:15	Time to change rooms
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W02 – W08 W02 Dysmorphology 1 W03 Fetal exome sequencing in clinical practice: Practicalities and Pitfalls W04 UCSC Genome Browser W05 Using the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) W06 Should we be performing opportunistic screening? W07 Structural chromosomal variants W08 Geneticists on call for cancer genomics – *CANCELLED*
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group B) – Only for in-person participants
17:00 – 17:15	Time to change rooms
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S07 – S11 S07 Cell lineages and organoids S08 Understanding and treating mitochondrial diseases S09 Mutation signatures S10 Left/Right patterning/heterotaxy S11 Peopling the world: One archipelago at a time	Educational Sessions E09-E10 E09 Pharmacogenomics for personalized drug treatment E10 Demonstrating effectiveness of genetic counselling
19:00 – 20:00	ESHG General Assembly
19:00 – 20:30	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 13, 2022

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S12 – S16 S12 The genetics of omics and beyond S13 Unstable heritable genomic variations and cancer development S14 Predictive genetic counselling for neurodegenerative conditions S15 Genetic architecture of the human face S16 Exploring neural circuits to understand and treat genetic disorders	Educational Sessions E11-E12 E11 New treatments for congenital disorders E12 Inherited metabolic disorders with acute presentations
08:30 – 10:00	Breakfast Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C16 – C23
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
12:15 – 13:00	ELPAG Award Lecture
12:45 – 13:45	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C) – Only for in-person participants
13:45 – 14:00	Time to change rooms
14:00 – 15:30	Workshops W09 – W15 W09 Dysmorphology 2 W10 Interpreting NGS variants W11 European Reference Networks W12 What’s new in Cytogenomics? W13 GenEthics W14 Pharmacogenomics: what are the priorities? W15 Science Communication
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:30 – 15:45	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
15:45 – 16:45	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group D) – Only for in-person participants
16:45 – 17:00	Time to change rooms
17:00 – 18:30	Concurrent Symposia S17 – S22 S17 First do no harm: addressing misuse of genetic data (Building Bridges) S18 The importance of somatic variation S19 Polygenic scores: from methods to applications S20 Cross-cultural communication and counselling S21 Translational genetics of bone S22 Genetic intolerance	Educational Session E13 E13 Decoding the noncoding genome
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S23 – S26 S23 Non-coding RNAs in biology and disease S24 Polygenic risk scores in diverse populations S25 Multiomics for diagnostics S26 Federation of genomic medicine databases	Educational Sessions E14-E15 E14 Precision medicine in the digital health era E15 Central statistical ideas in genetic data analyses
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C24 – C29
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15	PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:15 – 15:00	PL5 ESHG Award Lecture
15:00 – 16:00	PL6 Awards Session EJHG Citation Awards ESHG Early Career Awards European DNA Day Contest Closing Address

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Saturday, June 6, 2020

	Live Sessions	On-demand Sessions – Always Available
09:00 – 11:00	Education Sessions E01 E01 New Technologies	Education Sessions E02-E16 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters! E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondrial Diagnostics E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques? E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E16 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
		Workshops Wxx-Wxx W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance – To be confirmed W04 ESHG-Y – To be confirmed
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 12:45	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07 C01 From Carrier Screening to Infertility and Fetal Diagnostics C02 Intellectual Disability C03 Novel Bioinformatic and Machine-Learning Methods	Corporate Satellites
12:45 – 13:00	Break
13:00 – 14:30	Corporate Satellites
14:30 – 14:45	Break
14:45 – 16:15	PL1 Opening Plenary Session
14:30 – 14:45	Break
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:15	Break
18:15 – 19:45	Concurrent Sessions C04 – C07 C04 Basic Research in Cancer C05 Elucidating the Function of Cardiac Genes C06 Sensory Disorders C07 Impact of Genomic Medicine on Public and Patients

Sunday, June 7, 2020

	Live Sessions	On-demand Sessions – Always Available
08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S04 S01 What to Expect from Prenatal Diagnosis S02 Liquid Biopsy for early Detection of Cancer S03 Our Ancestry S04 Public and Patient Engagement	Education Sessions E02-E16 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters! E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondrial Diagnostics E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques? E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E16 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:45	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C12 C08 Impact of Diagnostics Improvements in Healthcare C09 Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders C10 Rare and Common Variants in Personalized Medicine C11 Multiple Malformation Syndromes I C12 Neuropsychiatry
11:45 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 13:45	Poster Viewing with Authors
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops Wxx – Wxx	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome and Genome Variant Interpretation W06 Prenatal Diagnosis – To be confirmed W07 “Treatabolome”: A Treatment Awareness Project for Rare Diseases W08 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? – To be confirmed W09 UCSC Genome Browser – To be confirmed W11 Pharmacogenomics in Practice – To be confirmed
14:45 – 15:15	Break
15:15 – 16:45	Concurrent Symposia S05 – S08 S05 Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution S06 Making Sense out of Nonsense S07 Strategies and Applications in Translating GWAS to Function S07 Cardiovascular Genetics
16:45 – 17:00	Break
17:00 – 18:30	Concurrent Sessions C13-C16 C13 3D Genome Architecture C14 Internal Organs C15 Best Posters Session 1 C16 The Interplay of Law, Policy and Genomics
18:30 – 18:45	Break
18:45 – 20:15	Corporate Satellites

Saturday, June 6, 2020

08:00 – 10:00	Educational Session E01 New Technologies
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:30	Corporate Satellites
10:30 – 12:00	Education Sessions E02-E04 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes	Workshops W01-W04 W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance W02 Dysmorphology I W03 Molecular Newborn Screening vs. Newborn Testing W04 GenEthics
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:45	Corporate Satellites
14:00 – 14:30	PL0 Welcoming Addresses
14:30 – 16:00	PL1 Opening Plenary Session
16:00 – 16:30	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07 C01 From Carrier Screening to Infertility and Fetal Diagnostics C02 Intellectual Disability C03 Novel Bioinformatic and Machine-Learning Methods C04 Basic Research in Cancer C05 Elucidating the Function of Cardiac Genes C06 Sensory Disorders C07 Impact of Genomic Medicine on Public and Patients
20:00 – 22:00	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 7, 2020

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S05 S01 What to Expect from Prenatal Diagnosis S02 Multi-omics Approaches for Diagnosing Rare Diseases S03 Liquid Biopsy for early Detection of Cancer S04 Our Ancestry S05 Public and Patient Engagement	Educational Sessions E05-E06 E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters!
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C15 C08 Impact of Diagnostics Improvements in Healthcare C09 Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders C10 Rare and Common Variants in Personalized Medicine C11 Multiple Malformation Syndromes I C12 Neuropsychiatry C13 3D Genome Architecture C14 Internal Organs C15 Best Posters 1
12:00 – 13:00	Concurrent Sessions C16 C16 The Interplay of Law, Policy and Genomics
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A)
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome and Genome Variant Interpretation W06 Prenatal Diagnosis W07 “Treatabolome”: A Treatment Awareness Project for Rare Diseases W08 Science Communication W09 UCSC Genome Browser W10 Community Genetics: Prospects for Curing Genetic Disorders W11 Pharmacogenomics in Practice
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group B)
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S06 – S09 S06 Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution S07 Making Sense out of Nonsense S08 Strategies and Applications in Translating GWAS to Function S09 Cardiovascular Genetics	Educational Sessions E07-E09 E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondria Diagnostics
19:00 – 20:00	ESHG Membership Meeting
19:00 – 20:30	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 8, 2020

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S10- S14 S10 Beyond Mendelian Inheritance S11 Single Cell Cancer Genetics S12 Embryo and Placenta: Equal Partners S13 Where Science and Ethics Meet S14 Lysosomes in Health and Disease	Educational Sessions E10-E11 E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations
08:30- 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C17 – C24 C17 New Therapeutic Approaches C18 Clinical Cancer Research C19 Multiple Malformation Syndromes II C20 Neurogenetics C21 Methods and Applications of Association Studies in Large Cohorts C22 Immunology and Hematology C23 Counselling, Communication and Deliberation C24 Best Posters 2
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
12:15 – 13:00	PL3 ELPAG Award Lecture
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C)
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W12 – W18 W12 Copy Number Variant Interpretation and Classification W13 Dysmorphology II W14 Exome Pipelines for Clinicians W15 Using the Ensembl VEP for analysing Variants in Rare and Common Disease W16 Genetic Counselling Models for Genomic Screening W17 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? W18 Reproducible and transparent Analysis with Galaxy
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group D)
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S15 – S18 S15 ESHG-ASHG Building Bridges Session on Polygenic Risk Scores: Risky or Useful in the Clinic? S16 Detection of Structural Variation S17 Genetic Mechanisms in Haematological Neoplasias S18 Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and Cohesinopathies	Educational Sessions E12-E13 E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques?
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S19- S21 S19 Clonal Fitness of Somatic Mutations S20 Data-driven Genomic Care and its Implementation in the Clinic: A Paradigm Shift S21 Integrating Large-scale Functional Data into Genome-wide Association Studies	Educational Sessions E14-E16 E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E15 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C25 – C31 C25 New Technologies and Approaches C26 Genome Variation and Architecture C27 Late Breaking Session C28 Neurodevelopment C29 Skin & Bones C30 Polygenic Risk Scores: From Tool to Practice C31 Shaping the Genomic Medicine Era
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30	PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:30 – 15:30	PL5 ESHG Award Lecture
15:30 – 16:15	PL6 Awards Session ESHG Education Award EJHG Citation Awards ESHG Awards for Best Presentations by Young Investigators Closing