The Scientific Committee of the ESHG determines topics for these 90 minutes sessions which will best serve the educational needs of the attendees. Particular care is taken to ensure that these sessions address basic issues and focus on the educational aspect.

Those sessions are not intended for experts in the respective fields, but are designed to give a general basic introduction to a particular topic.

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Educational Sessions

E01. New Technologies
 Saturday, June 15
08.00 – 10.15 hrs
E02. Epigenetics and cancer
 Saturday, June 15
10.30 – 12.00 hrs
E03. Bridging genomic discoveries and personalized medicine
 Saturday, June 15
10.30 – 12.00 hrs
E04. Gene Expression Resources
 Saturday, June 15
10.30 – 12.00 hrs
E05. The longer the better? Third generation sequencing technologies
 Sunday, June 16
8.30 – 10.00 hrs
E06. Pharmacogenomic testing for personalized medicine
 Sunday, June 16
8.30 – 10.00 hrs
E07. Single-cell transcriptomics in the brain 
 Sunday, June 16
17.45 – 19.15 hrs
E08. Chromosome Y loss and the ageing genome
 Sunday, June 16
17.45 – 19.15 hrs
E09. Variant interpretation and high-throughput functional assays
 Monday, June 17
8.30 – 10.00 hrs
E10. Meiosis: factory of genetic variation
 Monday, June 17
8.30 – 10.00 hrs
E11. Genome First Testing in Pediatrics (joint Session)
 Monday, June 17
17.45 – 19.15 hrs
E12. Oligogenic inheritance of human disease
 Monday, June 17
17.45 – 19.15 hrs
E13. Genetic innovations in reproductive medicine
 Tuesday, June 18
09.00 – 10.30 hrs
E14. Understanding human disease through animal models
 Tuesday, June 18
09.00 – 10.30 hrs