{"id":148462,"date":"2021-06-29T06:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/announcing-the-20th-international-gene-forum\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T03:29:51","slug":"announcing-the-20th-international-gene-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tehnopol.ee\/en\/announcing-the-20th-international-gene-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"ANNOUNCING: The 20th International Gene Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our member The Institute of Genomics of the University of Tartu is organizing the 20th International Gene Forum on August , 25\u201327.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Gene Forum will also have session on COVID-19 research.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gene Forum 2021 speakers are:<\/h3>\n<div><b>Peter\u00a0Donnelly,\u00a0<\/b>Genomics PLC, UK<\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Samuli\u00a0Ripatti,\u00a0<\/span><\/b>University of Helsinki\/Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland\u202f(FIMM), Finland<\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Gert Matthijs,\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"en-US\">KU Leuven, Belgium<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Cathryn Lewis\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"en-US\">King\u2019s College London, UK<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>Andres\u00a0Merits\u00a0<\/b>University of Tartu, Estonia<\/div>\n<div><b>Adrian Hayday,\u00a0<\/b><span lang=\"en-GB\">Francis Crick Institute and King\u2019s College, UK<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>Andrea\u00a0 Ganna\u00a0<\/b>Senior\u00a0researcher\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Institute\u00a0for\u00a0Molecular\u00a0Medicine\u00a0Finland\/\u00a0 instructor\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-US\">Harvard Medical School \/<\/span>\u00a0instructor\u00a0at\u00a0the<span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0Massachusetts General Hospital, Finland\/USA<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>Charity Nofziger\u00a0<\/b>PharmGenetix\u00a0GmbH, Austria<\/div>\n<div><b>Ewan Pearson\u00a0<\/b>University of Dundee,\u00a0Scotland<\/div>\n<div><b>Jesse Swen\u00a0<\/b>LUMC, Netherland<\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Michael Zimmermann\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Structural and Computational Biology Unit,\u00a0<span lang=\"en-US\">EMBL, Germany<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Yingyuan\u00a0Fu\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"en-US\">University of\u00a0Gr\u00f6ningen<b>,<\/b>\u00a0Netherland<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>Judith Zaugg\u00a0<\/b>EMBL, Germany<\/div>\n<div><b>Urmo V\u00f5sa,\u00a0<\/b>University of Tartu, Estonia<\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Shai Shen-Orr\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"en-US\">Technion \u2013\u00a0Israel Institute of Technology, Israel<\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b><span lang=\"en-US\">Tilman Sanchez-Elsner\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"en-US\">University of Southampton, UK<\/span><\/div>\n<div><b>Richard Oram,\u00a0<\/b>University of Exeter,\u00a0UK\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><b>Matteo Fumagalli,\u00a0<\/b>Imperial Collage, UK\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneforum.ee\/GF2021\/index.php?inc=main\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Connected Health Cluster led by Tehnopol Science Park is Estonia\u2019s biggest healthcare tech community, uniting health service providers, health tech companies and all other key interest groups in the field. With the help of the cluster, it is possible to carry out national cooperation projects and export health technology solutions to other countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The activities of the cluster are co-financed by Enterprise Estonia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our member The Institute of Genomics of the University of Tartu is organizing the 20th International Gene Forum on August , 25\u201327. This year\u2019s 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. 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