Poster Session
Don’t forget to print your poster before your trip. Please bring your poster in portrait format A0 (84,1 cm x 118,9 cm or 33.1 inches x 46.8 inches).
Agenda
The program includes invited talks (50 minutes including questions), contributed talks (20 minutes including questions), and a poster session.
Full abstract book can be found here.
April 3, Wednesday
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 8:30 – 9:20 | Registration and welcome coffee |
| 9:20 – 9:30 | Welcome remarks |
| 9:30 – 10:20 | Riccardo Marioni, DNA methylation-based predictors of lifestyle and disease |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Heather Cordell, Fine-mapping the results from genome-wide association studies of primary biliary cholangitis using SuSiE and h2-D2 Al Depope, Light-speed whole genome association testing and prediction via Approximate Message Passing |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Saskia Kuusk, Target Trial Emulation in biobank data: estimating the effect of cholesterol-lowering therapy and PRS in the Estonian Biobank Daniela Zanotti, Modelling genetic effects on gene expression dynamics in B cells Ilse Krätschmer, Discovery of shared epigenetic pathways across human phenotypes |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:50 | Rebecca Richmond, Evaluating the 4 R’s of Mendelian randomization studies: reporting, reproducibility, robustness and reasonableness |
| 14:50 – 15:30 | Annika Jaitner, Exploring and accounting for genetically driven effect heterogeneity in Mendelian Randomization Ana Luiza Arruda, Dissecting ancestry-aware molecular causal paths of type 2 diabetes |
| 15:30 – 17:30 | Poster Session & Coffee break |
| 17:30 – 21:00 | Dinner at Redlingerhütte |
April 4, Thursday
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 9:30 – 10:20 | Doug Speed, LDAK-KVIK is a fast and powerful tool for performing mixed-model association analysis of quantitative and binary phenotypes |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | Jakub Bajzik, Epigenome-wide association studies using approximate message passing Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola, Isolating the Genetics of Mania through Genomic Structural Equation Modelling |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Malgorzata Borczyk, Causal genetic effects for blood pressure management through life |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | Simon Wiegrebe, Novel genetic variants identified for kidney function decline and insights into genome-wide association analyses using longitudinal trait trajectories |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Amke Caliebe, Evolutionary history of disease alleles: the problem of admixture Lynette Caitlin Mikula, A General Framework for Population Genetic Inference via Generalised Linear Models Florian Privé, Quality control of GWAS summary statistics Mara Delesa-Velina, NMR metabolomics data as a powerful predictor of lifespan: challenges of modeling and interpretation in the Estonian Biobank cohort |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 16:50 | Matti Pirinen, Fine-mapping GWAS meta-analyses with migraine as an example |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Closing remarks and awards |