Session 1
Chair: Lars Steinmetz

Understand the similarities and differences between normal and malignant stem cells to develop more efficient therapies for AML patients
Caroline Pabst - University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Understanding genetic and epigenetic T cell regulatory mechanisms in autoimmune diseases
Neha Daga - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Translating immune disease GWAS variants to causal cell types and genes
Gosia Trynka - Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK 

Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with:
Caroline Pabst - University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
Emma Farley - University of California, San Diego, USA
Gosia Trynka - Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Emma Lundberg - Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christoph Bock - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Hiromitsu Nakauchi - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 

Dissecting spatiotemporal variations of the human proteome
Emma Lundberg - Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Whole genome sequencing insights into infertility: Preliminary results from WGS of couples with repeated IVF failure
Anna Mantzouratou - Bournemouth University, UK

Single cell sequencing of epigenetic disease landscapes and induced perturbations
Christoph Bock - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Keynote Lecture: Growing organs in vivo: iPS cell derived, xeno created organs for transplantation
Hiromitsu Nakauchi - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 

Speed Networking Session in ATC Foyer

Dinner in EMBL Canteen

Welcome Reception in ATC Rooftop Lounge

Pinpointing disease causing regulatory genetic variants by multi omics and machine learning
Julien Gagneur - Technical University of Munich, Germany 

Characterizing the phenotypic effects of genetic variants associated with transcriptomic outliers in iPSC and differentiated cell types
Craig Smail - Stanford University, USA

Data integration for prediction of time to insulin in type 2 diabetes patients
Rikke Linnemann Nielsen - Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

The power of multi omics for finding novel disease stratifications
Wolfgang Huber - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany 

Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with:
Julien Gagneur - Technical University of Munich, Germany
Wolfgang Huber - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Emmanouil Dermitzakis - University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
Barbara Prainsack - University of Vienna, Austria 

Genetic variation in 3D cis and trans genome interactions in immune cells
Emmanouil Dermitzakis - University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland

A longitudinal big data approach for precision health
Sophia Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza Rose - Stanford University, USA

Multiplexed Cas12a Cpf1 based screening enables machine learning prediction of an optimal evolving barcoding strategy for lineage tracing
Nicholas Hughes - Stanford University, USA

The value(s) of precision health: Patients and society
Barbara Prainsack - University of Vienna, Austria 

Lunch and Meet the Editors in ATC Foyer with:
Celine Carret - EMBO, Germany
Joao Duarte - Springer Nature, Germany
Maria Polychronidou - Molecular Systems Biology, Germany

Session 3
Chair: Ami Bhatt

Precision medicine from liquid biopsies
Stephen Quake - Stanford University, USA 

Microbiome in active and inactive older people
Nathan O'Callaghan - CSIRO, Australia

21st Century medicine: Big data, wellness and disease
Leroy Hood - Institute for Systems Biology, USA

Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with:
Stephen Quake - Stanford University, USA
Olli Kallioniemi - Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Leroy Hood - Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Ewan Birney - EMBL-EBI Hinxton, UK
Edith Heard - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Big data in health and biology 
Ewan Birney - EMBL-EBI Hinxton, UK

Keynote Lecture: Exploring the dynamic relationship between gene expression and chromosome organisation during X chromosome inactivation
Edith Heard - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Flash Talks Session
#47 Katharina Beuke - Sanofi, Germany
#48 Etienne Boileau - Klaus Tschira Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology, Germany
#51 Giacomo Corleone - Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri, Italy
#53 Annisa Fitriani - Ananda Purworejo Hospital, Indonesia
#60 Bence Keömley-Horváth - Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
#64 Roman Kurilov - German Cancer Research Center, Germany
#68 Chen Li - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
#70 Vladislav Lysenkov - Turku Bioscience, Finland
#72 Enrico Mossotto - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
#76 Wendelin Schramm - GECKO Institute, Heilbronn University, Germany
#81 George Spyrou - The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Cyprus
#82 Ben Story - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Poster Session 1 (odd numbers)
with beer, wine and snacks

Microfluidic approaches in personalized cancer therapy
Christoph Merten - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Identification of a reproducible epigenetic risk profile for schizophrenia linked to post mortem brain methylation and prefrontal hippocampal connectivity
Emanuel Schwarz - Central Institute of Mental Health, Germany

The use of iPSCs for in vivo personalized organ generation using cross species chimeras: A primate model
Morteza Roodgar - Stanford University, USA

Harnessing big data for personalized medicine
Eran Segal - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 

Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with:
Christoph Merten - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Eran Segal - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Angela Rogers - Stanford University, USA
Oliver Stegle - EMBL Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Personalizing ICU medicine: How 'omics is advancing our understanding of ARDS
Angela Rogers - Stanford University, USA

Integrated personalized diabetes management goes Europe: Adding value to diabetes care through digital innovation and integrated care
Allan Jones - Roche Diabetes Care Deutschland, Germany

Navigating causal reasoning pathways to identify personalize drug treatments through multi omics using multi task learning
Rosa Hernansaiz Ballesteros - Heidelberg University, Germany

Unravelling the genotype-to-phenotype map in human pluripotent cells
Oliver Stegle - EMBL Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Lunch in ATC Foyer

Session 5
Chair: Angela Rogers

Unlocking the secret genes and genomes from the human microbiome
Ami Bhatt - Stanford University, USA 

DNA methylation relates to cardiac alternative splicing in dilated cardiomyopathy
Weng-Tein Gi - Heidelberg University, Germany

Single molecule, full length transcript sequencing reveals disease associated isoforms in human cells
Chenchen Zhu - Stanford University, USA

Pathological mutations in LSD1 interfere with ZEB1/2 transcription factor and alter developmental gene expression
Daria Bunina - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Patient centered data in real world medicine
Christof von Kalle - Berlin Institute of Health - Charité Clinical Study Center, Germany

Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with:
Ami Bhatt - Stanford University, USA
Christof von Kalle - Berlin Institute of Health - Charité Clinical Study Center, Germany
Ruedi Aebersold - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Christina Curtis - Stanford University, USA

Poster Session 2 (even numbers)
with beer, wine and snacks

Conference Dinner in EMBL Canteen

Conference Party with Live Band "The Taylor Brothers" in ATC Foyer

Session 6
Chair: Judith Zaugg

Making meaningful biomarker measurements with digital ELISA technology
David Walt - Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA 

The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight
Tejaswini Mishra - Stanford University, USA

Designing cell-based treatment strategies of the future
Martin Fussenegger - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Extracellular electrophysiological characterization of neurons and networks at subcellular resolution
Andreas Hierlemann - ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Coffee Break and Meet the Speakers in ATC Foyer with:
David Walt - Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Martin Fussenegger - ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Andreas Hierlemann - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Patrick Aloy - Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain
Benjamin Meder - University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Extending the small molecule similarity principle to all levels of biology
Patrick Aloy - Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain 

The failure uncovers heart’s wonderful principles
Benjamin Meder - University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany