Programme at a Glance

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 Sessions included in the “EMPAG” Track

Saturday, June 15, 2019

08:00 – 10:00	Educational Session E01 New Technologies
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Education Sessions E02-E04 E02 Epigenetics and cancer E03 Bridging genomic discoveries and personalized medicine E04 Gene Expression Resources	Workshops W01-W04 W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance W02 Prenatal Diagnosis W03 How to enhance your career – How to present – How to network W04 From genetics to new medicines: The Open Targets Platform
	Corporate Satellites
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 Novel diagnostic approaches C02 3D gene regulation C03 Neurogenetic and psychiatric disorders C04 Fertility C05 Developmental disorders 1 C06 Cellular dysfunctions C07 Gene editing and reproduction
20:00	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 16, 2019

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S04 S01 Updates in psychiatric genetics S02 Finding the strengths that make cancer cells weak S03 RNA mis-splicing dynamics, diagnosis and treatment S04 An update on kidney research	Educational Sessions E05-E06 E05 The longer the better? Third generation sequencing technologies E06 Pharmacogenomic testing for personalized medicine
10:00 – 10:15	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:15 – 11:15	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A)
11:15 – 12:45	Corporate Satellites
11:15 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
13:00 – 14:30	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C15 C08 Prenatal Genetics C09 Cancer genetics C10 Cardiovascular disorders C11 Statistical and population genetics C12 Intellectual Disability C13 Pharmacogenomics C14 Genetic counselling developments C15 Best Posters 1
14:30 – 15:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
15:00 – 16:30	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome sequencing and variant interpretation W06 Dysmorphology I W07 UCSC Genome Browser W08 Investigating genotype-phenotype data using the GWAS Catalog W09 A Tribute to Seymour Kessler: Deliberating Psychotherapeutic Work in Genetic Counseling W10 Genomics Quiz W11 European funding schemes for researchers
15:00 – 16:30	Corporate Satellites
16:30 – 16:45	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
16:45 – 17:45	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group B)
17:45 – 19:15	Concurrent Symposia S05 – S08 S05 Genome editing S06 Thank you for the Variant (a personal utility tale) S07 Polylygenic risk scores coming of age S08 Beware of the transposons	Educational Sessions E07-E08 E07 Single-cell transcriptomics in the brain E08 Chromosome Y loss and the ageing genome
19:15 – 20:15	ESHG Membership Meeting
19:15 – 20:45	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 17, 2019

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S09 – S12 S09 Multidimensional nuclear organization S10 From genome wide association study to mechanisms: fine-mapping S11 „De novo““ developments in epilepsia S12 Congenital disorders of glycosylation	Educational Sessions E09-E10 E09 Variant interpretation and high-throughput functional assays E10 Meiosis: factory of genetic variation
		ELPAG Award Lecture A1
10:00 – 10:15	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:15 – 11:15	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C)
11:15 – 12:45	Corporate Satellites
11:15 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
13:00 – 14:30	Concurrent Sessions C16 – C23 C16 Personalized and predictive medicine C17 Genetic mechanisms in cancer C18 Therapies C19 From genome architecture to RNA biology C20 Neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders C21 Internal organs C22 Ethical, policy and psychosocial aspects in genomics C23 Best Posters 2
14:30 – 15:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
15:00 – 16:30	Workshops W12 – W18 W12 Dysmorphology II W13 Copy Number Variant Interpretation and Classification W14 Molecular Newborn screening vs. newborn testing W15 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? W16 Opportunistic or non opportunistic genetic screening? W17 Using Ensembl data and tools: a worked clinical example W18 Pharmacogenomics in practice
15:00 – 16:30	Corporate Satellites
16:30 – 16:45	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
16:45 – 17:45	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group D)
17:45 – 19:15	Concurrent Symposia S13 – S16 S13 Understanding mutations to detect cancer S14 Debate: Genomics and the Media S15 Regulatory Landscapes S16 Methods for genetic epidemiology	Educational Sessions E11-E12 E11 Genome First Testing in Pediatrics (joint Session) E12 Oligogenic inheritance
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S17 – S19 S17 ESHG-ASHG building bridges: Global collaboration to advance the use of genomics in health S18 Our genetic history and its phenotypic consequences S19 Treating rare genetic disease S20 Epigenetics and early development	Educational Sessions E13-E14 E13 Genetic innovations in reproductive medicine E14 Understanding human disease through animal models
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C24 – C29 C24 Mosaicisms C25 Bioinformatics and multiomics C26 Mitochondrial disorder C27 Developmental disorders 2 C28 Breaking Abstracts C29 Stakeholder perspectives in cancer genetics
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15	PL3 Mendel Lecture
14:15 – 15:00	PL4 ESHG Award Lecture
15:00 – 15:45	PL5 Awards Session ESHG Education Award EJHG Citation Awards ESHG Awards for Best Presentations by Young Investigators Closing