
EMBL Courses and Conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic
With the onsite programme paused, many of our events are now being offered in virtual formats.
Registration is open as usual for many events, with back-up plans in place to move further courses and conferences online as necessary. Registration fees for any events affected by the COVID-19 disruption are fully refundable.
More information for participants of events at EMBL Heidelberg can be found here.
Programme
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Time | Speaker |
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12:00 - 13:30 | Arrival and Registration with light lunch |
13:30 - 13:45 | Opening Remarks |
13:45 - 18:00 |
Session 1 |
13:45 - 14:15 |
Understand the similarities and differences between normal and malignant stem cells to develop more efficient therapies for AML patients |
14:15 - 14:45 | Regulatory principles governing enhancer activity in development and disease Emma Farley - University of California, San Diego, USA |
14:45 - 15:00 |
Understanding genetic and epigenetic T cell regulatory mechanisms in autoimmune diseases |
15:00 - 15:30 |
Translating immune disease GWAS variants to causal cell types and genes |
15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
16:00 - 16:30 |
Dissecting spatiotemporal variations of the human proteome |
16:30 - 16:45 |
Whole genome sequencing insights into infertility: Preliminary results from WGS of couples with repeated IVF failure |
16:45 - 17:15 |
Single cell sequencing of epigenetic disease landscapes and induced perturbations |
17:15 - 18:00 |
Keynote Lecture: Growing organs in vivo: iPS cell derived, xeno created organs for transplantation |
18:00 - 19:30 |
Speed Networking Session in ATC Foyer |
19:30 - 21:00 |
Dinner in EMBL Canteen |
21:00 - 23:00 |
Welcome Reception in ATC Rooftop Lounge |
Time | Speaker | |
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09:00 - 12:30 | Session 2 Chair: Julien Gagneur |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Pinpointing disease causing regulatory genetic variants by multi omics and machine learning |
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09:30 - 09:45 |
Characterizing the phenotypic effects of genetic variants associated with transcriptomic outliers in iPSC and differentiated cell types |
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09:45 - 10:00 |
Data integration for prediction of time to insulin in type 2 diabetes patients |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
The power of multi omics for finding novel disease stratifications |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Genetic variation in 3D cis and trans genome interactions in immune cells |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
A longitudinal big data approach for precision health |
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11:45 - 12:00 |
Multiplexed Cas12a Cpf1 based screening enables machine learning prediction of an optimal evolving barcoding strategy for lineage tracing |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
The value(s) of precision health: Patients and society |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch and Meet the Editors in ATC Foyer with: |
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14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 3 |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
Precision medicine from liquid biopsies |
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14:30 - 14:45 |
Microbiome in active and inactive older people |
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14:45 - 15:15 | Functional precision medicine for tailoring treatments to patients with acute myeloid leukemia Olli Kallioniemi - Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
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15:15 - 15:45 |
21st Century medicine: Big data, wellness and disease |
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15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
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16:15 - 16:45 |
Big data in health and biology |
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16:45 - 17:30 |
Keynote Lecture: Exploring the dynamic relationship between gene expression and chromosome organisation during X chromosome inactivation |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
Flash Talks Session |
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18:00 - 19:30 |
Poster Session 1 (odd numbers) |
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19:30 - 21:00 | Dinner in EMBL Canteen |
Time | Speaker |
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09:00 - 12:30 | Session 4 Chair: Emma Lundberg |
09:00 - 09:30 |
Microfluidic approaches in personalized cancer therapy |
09:30 - 09:45 |
Identification of a reproducible epigenetic risk profile for schizophrenia linked to post mortem brain methylation and prefrontal hippocampal connectivity |
09:45 - 10:00 |
The use of iPSCs for in vivo personalized organ generation using cross species chimeras: A primate model |
10:00 - 10:30 |
Harnessing big data for personalized medicine |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
11:00 - 11:30 |
Personalizing ICU medicine: How 'omics is advancing our understanding of ARDS |
11:30 - 11:45 |
Integrated personalized diabetes management goes Europe: Adding value to diabetes care through digital innovation and integrated care |
11:45 - 12:00 |
Navigating causal reasoning pathways to identify personalize drug treatments through multi omics using multi task learning |
12:00 - 12:30 |
Unravelling the genotype-to-phenotype map in human pluripotent cells |
12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch in ATC Foyer |
14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 5 |
14:00 - 14:30 |
Unlocking the secret genes and genomes from the human microbiome |
14:30 - 14:45 |
DNA methylation relates to cardiac alternative splicing in dilated cardiomyopathy |
14:45 - 15:00 |
Single molecule, full length transcript sequencing reveals disease associated isoforms in human cells |
15:00 - 15:15 |
Pathological mutations in LSD1 interfere with ZEB1/2 transcription factor and alter developmental gene expression |
15:15 - 15:45 |
Patient centered data in real world medicine |
15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
16:15 - 16:45 | The modular proteome and its clinical significance Ruedi Aebersold - ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
16:45 - 17:15 | From bench to bedside: Identifying and targeting the genomic drivers of breast cancer progression and therapeutic resistance Christina Curtis - Stanford University, USA |
17:15 - 18:00 | Industry Panel Discussion: Commercialising Precision Health Moderator: Michael Snyder Panel members: Gitte Neubauer - Cellzome, Germany Eran Segal - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Christian Fegeler - MOLIT Institute, Germany |
18:00 - 19:30 |
Poster Session 2 (even numbers) |
19:30 - 21:00 |
Conference Dinner in EMBL Canteen |
21:00 - 00:00 |
Conference Party with Live Band "The Taylor Brothers" in ATC Foyer |
Time | Speaker | |
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09:00 - 12:15 |
Session 6 |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Making meaningful biomarker measurements with digital ELISA technology |
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09:30 - 09:45 |
The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight |
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09:45 - 10:15 |
Designing cell-based treatment strategies of the future |
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10:15 - 10:45 |
Extracellular electrophysiological characterization of neurons and networks at subcellular resolution |
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10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with: |
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11:15 - 11:45 |
Extending the small molecule similarity principle to all levels of biology |
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11:45 - 12:15 |
The failure uncovers heart’s wonderful principles |
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12:15 - 12:30 | Closing Remarks and Poster Prizes | |
12:30 | Packed Lunch and Departure |