ANNOUNCING: The 20th International Gene Forum

Our member The Institute of Genomics of the University of Tartu is organizing the 20th International Gene Forum on August , 25–27.

This year’s conference will be held online! It provides an opportunity for much wider audience to listen to presentations by top scientist in the field of genomics.

Due to its interdisciplinary scope, the conference brings together 18 distinguished experts from Europe, the US and Israel for discussion of the progress in the field. This year’s presentations will cover themes from the use of genomic data in personalized medicine and applications in healthcare, pharmacogenomics, regulatory genomics and molecular functions, population genomics and human microbiome interactions. Given the situation in the world, this year’s Gene Forum will also have session on COVID-19 research.

Gene Forum 2021 speakers are:

Peter Donnelly, Genomics PLC, UK

Samuli Ripatti, University of Helsinki/Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Finland

Gert Matthijs, KU Leuven, Belgium

Cathryn Lewis King’s College London, UK

Andres Merits University of Tartu, Estonia

Adrian Hayday, Francis Crick Institute and King’s College, UK

Andrea  Ganna Senior researcher at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland/  instructor at the 

Harvard Medical School / instructor at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Finland/USA

Charity Nofziger PharmGenetix GmbH, Austria

Ewan Pearson University of Dundee, Scotland

Jesse Swen LUMC, Netherland

Michael Zimmermann Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL, Germany

Yingyuan Fu University of Gröningen, Netherland

Judith Zaugg EMBL, Germany

Urmo Võsa, University of Tartu, Estonia

Shai Shen-Orr Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 

Tilman Sanchez-Elsner University of Southampton, UK

Richard Oram, University of Exeter, UK 

Matteo Fumagalli, Imperial Collage, UK