Program

MACEDONIA HALL SANTORINI HALL
Pre-day Trainee Symposium Education Workshop
How to write a paper (journals editors) Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues (ELSI)
How to write a grant
Meet the prof session
All About Tools
Time PARTHENON HALL MACEDONIA HALL SANTORINI HALL
09:00 - 10:30 Education Workshop 1
Variant Interpretation
Education Workshop 2
Pangenomes
Education Workshop 3
New Technologies for Geneticists Education
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break & Exhibition
11:00 - 12:30 Workshop Continued Workshop Continued Workshop Continued
12:30 - 14:00 Corporate Lunch Session 1 & 2
14:00 - 14:30 Opening Ceremony
Piero Carninci, Head of Genomics Research Centre; Human Technopole, Milan, Italy
George Patrinos, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens & Professor, University of Patras Department of Pharmacy, Patras, Greece
Invited Greek Authorities
14:30 - 15:05 Plenary 1
Large-scale National genomics projects
15:05 - 15:30 Coffee Break & Exhibition
15:30 - 18:00 Symposium 1
National Genome Initiatives


MALAYSIA, Syahril Abdullah, Malaysia Genome and Vaccine Institute (MGVI), National Institutes of Biotechnology
THAILAND, Jakris Eu-ahsunthornwattana, President, Thailand Human Genetics Society
INDONESIA, Indri Rosalina Supardi, Biomedical and Health Genomics and Indonesia Clinical Research Centre, The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia,
GENOME OF EUROPE, André Uitterlinden, Complex Genetics at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Symposium 2
Environmental Genomics


Vasilis Vasiliou, Yale University, USA
Speaker TBC
2 oral presentations
16:30 - 16:50 Short Coffee & Bio Break Symposium 3
Late-breaking Abstracts


10 oral presentations
16:50 - 18:00 CHINA, Wei-bin Liu, BGI
ARGENTINA, Fabiana Arzuaga, University of Buenos Aires
GREECE, George Patrinos, Hellenic Pasteur Institute & University of Patras
BRAZIL,
USA,
UK,
MEXICO,
SOUTH AFRICA,
CANADA,
SINGAPORE,
EMIRATES,
INDIA
18:00 Welcome Reception, Poster Session & Exhibition
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09:00 - 10:15 Symposium 4
AI and Machine Learning Applications in Human Genomics


John Quackenbush, Harvard University, USA
Mike Snyder, Stanford University, USA
2 oral presentations
Symposium 5
Public Policy and Health Economics in Genomic Medicine


James Buchanan, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Christina Mitropoulou, The Golden Helix Foundation, UK
2 oral presentations
10:15 - 11:20 Poster Session & Exhibition & Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:55 Plenary 2
Therapeutics
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch & Exhibition & Networking
Corporate lunch session 3 & 4
Career Mentoring & Coaching (Academic & Industry)
(one table for each mentor)
13:30 - 14:45 Symposium 6
Genome Regulation


Magda Bienko, Human Technopole, Italy
Speaker TBC
2 oral presentations
Symposium 7
Rare Disease from Genomics to Patients


Gabriela Repetto, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Bassam Ali, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Aime Lumaka, University of Kinshasa, DR Congo
14:45 - 16:00 Poster Session & Exhibition & Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:15 Symposium 8
Advances in Psychiatric Genomics


Speaker TBC
2 oral presentations
Symposium 9
Large-Scale Genome Projects and the Human Pangenome


Karen Miga, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Speaker TBC
2 oral presentations
19:30 - Gala Dinner
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09:00 - 10:15 Symposium 10
Ancient Genomes and Human Ancestry


Hie Lim Kim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Pavlos Pavlakis, University of Crete, Greece
2 oral presentations
Symposium 11
Polypharmacy and Pharmacogenomics


SafePolyMed Speakers
SafePolyMed Speakers
2 oral presentations
10:15 - 11:15 Poster Session & Exhibition & Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:00 Plenary 3 “Federated gnomAD, GA4GH, Standards and Sharing”
Heidi Rehm, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch & Exhibition & Networking
Corporate lunch session 5 & 6
Career Mentoring & Coaching (Academic & Industry)
(one table for each mentor)
13:30 - 14:40 HUGO Chen Awards
HUGO Chen Awards for Distinguished Academic Achievement in Human Genetic and Genomic Research: To be nominated
HUGO Chen Award of Excellence: Muzlifah Haniffa
HUGO Chen Award of Excellence: To be nominated
14:40 - 15:00 HUGO African Prize
15:00 - 15:30 Short Coffee & Bio Break
15:30 - 16:45 Symposium 12
Precision Oncology: Genomics and Therapeutics of Cancer

Kai-Keen Shiu, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & UCL Cancer Institute, UK
2 oral presentations
Symposium 13
RNA and Disease

Ling-Ling Chen, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China
Speaker TBC
2 oral presentations
16:45 - 17:00 Poster Prize
17:00 - 17:10 Introduction to HGM2027
17:10 - 17:20 Closing Ceremony