Session 1: Molecular Basis of Health and Disease
Chair: TBC

Development and application of approaches to improve diagnosis, treatment and early detection of cancer
Christina Curtis  - Stanford University, United States of America

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

Selected short talk

Functional fine-mapping of immune disease variants points towards gene expression modulation in CD4 regulatory T cells
Gosia Trynka- Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK 

Coffee Break

Spatial proteomics and cell biology
Emma Lundberg - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Selected short talk

Highthroughput genetics and embryonic development
Emma Farley  - University of California, San Diego, USA 

Keynote Lecutre: Generation of organs from iPS cells via blastocyst complementation
Hiromitsu Nakauchi - Stanford University, USA 

Speed Networking Session

Dinner

Welcome reception  in ATC Lounge

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

Selected short talk

Selected short talk

Development of statistical and bioinformatic models for novel assays in high-throughput biology and the integrative analysis of multi-omic data types
Wolfgang Huber - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany 

Coffee Break

Population genomics and genetics of complex traits
Emmanouil Dermitzakis - University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland

Selected short talk

Selected short talk

Computation approaches to understanding the genotype-phenotype map on a genome-wide scale
Oliver Stegle - EMBL Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Lunch and Meet the Speakers

Session 3: Clinical, Ethical Societal Issues
Chair: TBC

Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine: Looking Beyond the Genome
Christoph Bock - CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Austria

Selected short talk

The value(s) of Precision Health: Patients and society
Barbara Prainsack - King's College London, UK and University of Vienna, Austria 

Coffee Break

Pioneering new approaches in predictive, preventative, personalized, and participatory healthcare
Leroy Hood - Institute for Systems Biology, USA 

Keynote Lecutre: Genetic and epigenetic variation and their impact on chromosome conformation and gene expression differences in development and disease. Using X inactivation and autosomal monoallelic gene expression as model systems
Edith Heard - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Flash talks 

Poster Session I

From hypertension genomics to interdisciplinary precision medicine
Dame Anna Dominiczak - University of Glasgow, UK 

Ex vivo drug efficacy testing on patient-derived cells combined with omics profiling to personalize treatment
Olli Kallioniemi - Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 

Coffee Break

Personalizing ICU meditine: how genomics is advancing our understanding of ARDS
Angela Rogers - Stanford University, USA

Selected short talk

Selected short talk

Microbiome, nutrition, genetics, and gene regulation in health and disease
Eran Segal - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 

Lunch and Meet the Speakers

Impact of microbiome on patient outcomes
Ami Bhatt - Stanford University, USA 

Selected short talk

Patient centered data in real world medicine
Christof von Kalle - Charité - Berlin Institute of Health, Germany and Sidra Medicine, Qatar

Flash talks

Poster Session II

Conference Dinner

Conference Party

Theranostic designer cell implant design to correct prominent metabolic disorders
Martin Fussenegger - ETH Zurich, Switzerland 

Selected short talk

Novel application of sequencing technologies to non-invasive diagnostics, immune repertoire analysis, and de novo genome sequencing
Stephen Quake - Stanford University, USA 

Coffee Break

Development of microfluidic technology to address complex questions in biomedical sciences and developmental biology
Christoph Merten - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Selected short talk

Ultrasensitive Protein Measurements for Early Disease Detection
David Walt - Wyss Institute at Harvard University, USA 

Lunch and Meet the Editors

Session 6: Disease Models
Chair: TBC

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

Selected short talk

Selected short talk

A network biology approach to novel therapeutic strategies
Patrick Aloy - Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain 

Experimental models in which systems-wide approaches are developed and validated before bringing these approaches to humans
Andreas Hierlemann - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Selected short talk

Longitudinal sampling of menstrual fluid for applications in early detection and monitoring of gynaecological malignancy
Angela Goncalves - German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Industry Panel