Programme at a Glance

Programme and speakers are subject to change.

Pre-conference courses

Separate registration required

Thursday & Friday June 10–11, 2027

Clinical NGS Data Interpretation CourseThu & Fri
Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale Genomic Public DatabasesFri
Teach the teacher GeneticsFri
On the Ethics and Strategies for Public Engagement in GenomicsFri

Conference programme

PlenaryEducationalInteractiveSymposiaConcurrent sessionsPostersGet2GetherCorporateESHG officialBreaks & exhibition

Saturday June 12, 2027

08:3010:00

Educational SessionE01 Balancing Acts: Navigating Care, Choice, and Influence in Genetic Counseling

Interactive SessionsI01 Mutations we almost missedI02 Dysmorphology 1

Concurrent SymposiaS01 Family-Based Genomics in the Biobank Era: Trios and RelativesS02 Genes that make us human: Perspectives from brain evolutionS03 Targeting Cancer: Ras ON, Ras OFFS04 Down syndrome: from screening to ageing

10:0010:30

Coffee BreakFree Poster Viewing · Exhibition30 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break10:0011:15

10:00–11:15CorporateCorporate Sessions

10:3012:00

Concurrent Sessionsfrom submitted abstracts

Get2GetherG01 Visibility of Genetics Professionals in healthcare systems and public policy

12:0013:15

Lunch BreakCoffee · Free Poster Viewing · Exhibition1 h 15 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break12:0013:30

12:15–13:15PostersPoster Viewing with Authors (Group A)Exhibition Hall

12:15–12:45PostersBest Poster Lightning Talks 1Exhibition Hall

12:15–13:15Get2GetherG02 Errors/Mess Ups

12:15–12:45CorporateCorporate Presentation

12:15–13:30CorporateCorporate Sessions

12:15–13:15Genetic Sounds · Live recordingESHG Podcast Listen to past episodes

13:00–13:30CorporateCorporate Presentation

13:1513:30

Time to change rooms

13:3014:00

PlenaryPL0 Welcoming Address

14:0015:30

PlenaryPL1 Opening Plenary

15:3016:45

Fruit BreakCoffee · Free Poster Viewing · Exhibition1 h 15 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break15:3016:45

15:45–16:45PostersPoster Viewing with Authors (Group B)Exhibition Hall

15:45–16:15PostersBest Poster Lightning Talks 2Exhibition Hall

15:45–16:45Get2GetherG03 TBC

16:4518:15

PlenaryPL3 What's New?

18:1518:30

Time to change rooms

18:3020:00

Concurrent Sessionsfrom submitted abstracts

20:0021:30

Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday June 13, 2027

08:3010:00

Educational SessionsE02 Making facesE03 The Rise of Agentic AI

Interactive SessionsI03 Long-read sequencing for beginnersI04 Patients as Partners: Shaping the Rare Disease Research /Real Impact: Advancing Co-production in Genomics and Rare Disease

Concurrent SymposiaS05 From variants and genes to functionS06 Mind the Synapse - Postsynaptic Synaptopathies: Gene discovery, disease mechanisms and thearapeuticsS07 Next-Generation Service Delivery: innovations in care models for genetic testing and counselling

08:3009:45

Corporate Sessions

10:0010:30

Coffee BreakFree Poster Viewing · Exhibition30 minMeet the exhibitors →

10:3012:00

Concurrent Sessionsfrom submitted abstracts

Get2GetherG04 Connecting and using Europe’s genomes: recent advances and emerging insights from Genome of Europe and ERDERA

10:3011:30

Corporate Session

12:0013:45

Lunch BreakCoffee · Free Poster Viewing · Exhibition1 h 45 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break12:0013:45

12:15–13:15Interactive SessionI05 the new ethics of publishing

12:15–13:15Get2GetherG05 HTA Policy

12:15–12:45CorporateCorporate Presentation

12:15–13:30CorporateCorporate Sessions

12:15–13:15ESHG officialMatch Making ESHG-Y Booth

12:45–13:45PostersPoster Viewing with Authors (Group C)Exhibition Hall

12:45–13:15PostersBest Poster Lightning Talks 3Exhibition Hall

13:00–13:30CorporateCorporate Presentation

13:4514:00

Time to change rooms

14:0015:30

Educational SessionE04 What's epigenetics

Interactive SessionsI06 Cancer case sessionI07 Do you have an ERN problem?

Concurrent SymposiaS08 We are all mosaics beyond cancerS09 Polygenic Scores – Are We There Yet for Clinical Implementation?S10 Population genomic screening across the lifespan: what, when and how?S11 Mitochondria in the spotlight: recent updatesS12 Precision therapy of internal organs

14:1515:45

Corporate Sessions

15:3016:45

Fruit BreakFree Poster Viewing · Exhibition1 h 15 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break15:3016:45

15:45–16:45PostersPoster Viewing with Authors (Group D)Exhibition Hall

15:45–16:15PostersBest Poster Lightning Talks 4Exhibition Hall

16:4517:00

Time to change rooms

17:0018:30

Concurrent Sessionsfrom submitted abstracts

19:3022:00

ESHG-Y Networking EventtWereld Museum

Monday June 14, 2027

08:3010:00

Educational SessionE05 Decoding the RNAverse: From Transcriptome to Diagnosis

Interactive SessionsI08 Structural chromosomal variantsI09 Episignatures: Clinical utility beyond binary classification and future applications (LRS and prenatal)I10 UCSC and ENSEMBL genome browsersI11 Expanding Horizons of the Genetic Counselling Profession

Concurrent SymposiaS13 Advances in prenatal diagnosisS14 New therapeutic approaches for genetic disorders

08:3009:45

Corporate Sessions

10:0010:30

Coffee BreakFree Poster Viewing · Exhibition30 minMeet the exhibitors →

10:3012:00

Concurrent Sessionsfrom submitted abstracts

Get2GetherG06 Cancer Programms across Europe

10:3011:30

Corporate Sessions

12:0013:45

Lunch BreakCoffee · Free Poster Viewing · Exhibition1 h 45 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break12:0013:45

12:15–13:15Get2GetherG07 Uniting European Young Initiatives in Human Genetics

12:15–12:45CorporateCorporate Presentation

12:15–13:30CorporateCorporate Sessions

12:15–13:15ESHG officialESHG General Assembly

12:45–13:45PostersPoster Viewing with Authors (Group E)Exhibition Hall

12:45–13:15PostersBest Poster Lightning Talks 5Exhibition Hall

13:00–13:30CorporateCorporate Presentation

13:4514:00

Time to change rooms

14:0015:30

Educational SessionE06 Cancer functional genomics in space

Interactive SessionsI12 Incidental findings and actionability: is knowing earlier better and what about prenatal care?I13 Is complete penetrance a myth?I14 Genethics ForumI15 Large-scale resources empowering accurate variant interpretation, diagnosis and treatment

Concurrent SymposiaS15 Rethinking coding potential to illuminate the dark proteomeS16 Early human embryos: Research opportunities and challengesS17 Time-to-Event Genetics: Age of Onset, Competing Risks, and Lifetime Risk

14:1515:45

Corporate Sessions

15:3016:45

Fruit BreakFree Poster Viewing · Exhibition1 h 15 minMeet the exhibitors →

During this break15:3016:45

15:45–16:45PostersPoster Viewing with Authors (Group F)Exhibition/Poster Halls

15:45–16:15PostersBest Poster Lightning Talks 6Exhibition Hall

16:4517:00

Time to change rooms

17:0018:30

Educational SessionE07 Of Centromeres and Telomeres

Interactive SessionsI16 ACMG v4I17 Let’s debate: Should human geneticists opt out from projects enquiring into the genetic basis of the normal variation in IQ?I18 Dysmorphology2

Concurrent SymposiaS18 Understanding gene regulationS19 Clonal hematopoiesis: from prediction to clinical consequenceS20 Pharmacogenomics in practice

20:0021:00

ESHG Networking Event

Tuesday June 15, 2027

09:0010:30

Educational SessionE08 Drug repurposing for rare conditions

Concurrent SymposiaS21 Genomics of AgeingS22 Control freak RNAs: the regulatory RNA universeS23 Deep Time, Present Risk: The Evolutionary Genetics of Human DiseaseS24 Risk prediction & precision surveillance in heritable cancerS25 Scaling Genomics: How AI and Digital Tools are Transforming Care

10:3011:00

Coffee Break30 min

11:0012:30

Concurrent Sessionsfrom submitted abstracts

12:3013:30

Lunch Break1 h

13:3013:50

PlenaryPL4 ELPAG Award Lecture

13:5014:35

PlenaryPL5 ESHG Award Lecture

14:3515:20

PlenaryPL6 Mendel Lecture

15:2016:00

PlenaryPL7 Awards & Closing

GertJan van Ommen Publication Award
Early Career Poster Awards
Early Career Oral Presentation Awards
Dian Donnai and Jill Clayton-Smith Award
ESHG Mentor and Observer Awards
European DNA Day Contest

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Saturday, June 6, 2020

	Live Sessions	On-demand Sessions – Always Available
09:00 – 11:00	Education Sessions E01 E01 New Technologies	Education Sessions E02-E16 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters! E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondrial Diagnostics E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques? E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E16 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
		Workshops Wxx-Wxx W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance – To be confirmed W04 ESHG-Y – To be confirmed
11:00 – 11:15	Break
11:15 – 12:45	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07 C01 From Carrier Screening to Infertility and Fetal Diagnostics C02 Intellectual Disability C03 Novel Bioinformatic and Machine-Learning Methods	Corporate Satellites
12:45 – 13:00	Break
13:00 – 14:30	Corporate Satellites
14:30 – 14:45	Break
14:45 – 16:15	PL1 Opening Plenary Session
14:30 – 14:45	Break
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:15	Break
18:15 – 19:45	Concurrent Sessions C04 – C07 C04 Basic Research in Cancer C05 Elucidating the Function of Cardiac Genes C06 Sensory Disorders C07 Impact of Genomic Medicine on Public and Patients

Sunday, June 7, 2020

	Live Sessions	On-demand Sessions – Always Available
08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S04 S01 What to Expect from Prenatal Diagnosis S02 Liquid Biopsy for early Detection of Cancer S03 Our Ancestry S04 Public and Patient Engagement	Education Sessions E02-E16 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters! E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondrial Diagnostics E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques? E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E16 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:45	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C12 C08 Impact of Diagnostics Improvements in Healthcare C09 Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders C10 Rare and Common Variants in Personalized Medicine C11 Multiple Malformation Syndromes I C12 Neuropsychiatry
11:45 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 13:45	Poster Viewing with Authors
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops Wxx – Wxx	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome and Genome Variant Interpretation W06 Prenatal Diagnosis – To be confirmed W07 “Treatabolome”: A Treatment Awareness Project for Rare Diseases W08 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? – To be confirmed W09 UCSC Genome Browser – To be confirmed W11 Pharmacogenomics in Practice – To be confirmed
14:45 – 15:15	Break
15:15 – 16:45	Concurrent Symposia S05 – S08 S05 Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution S06 Making Sense out of Nonsense S07 Strategies and Applications in Translating GWAS to Function S07 Cardiovascular Genetics
16:45 – 17:00	Break
17:00 – 18:30	Concurrent Sessions C13-C16 C13 3D Genome Architecture C14 Internal Organs C15 Best Posters Session 1 C16 The Interplay of Law, Policy and Genomics
18:30 – 18:45	Break
18:45 – 20:15	Corporate Satellites

Saturday, June 6, 2020

08:00 – 10:00	Educational Session E01 New Technologies
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:30	Corporate Satellites
10:30 – 12:00	Education Sessions E02-E04 E02 Statistical Rigor and Reproducibility in Genetic Research E03 Pharmacogenomics in the Clinic E04 Hypermobility and the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes	Workshops W01-W04 W01 NGS in the Clinic – Mistakes and Quality Assurance W02 Dysmorphology I W03 Molecular Newborn Screening vs. Newborn Testing W04 GenEthics
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:45	Corporate Satellites
14:00 – 14:30	PL0 Welcoming Addresses
14:30 – 16:00	PL1 Opening Plenary Session
16:00 – 16:30	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00	PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30	Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00	Concurrent Sessions C01 – C07 C01 From Carrier Screening to Infertility and Fetal Diagnostics C02 Intellectual Disability C03 Novel Bioinformatic and Machine-Learning Methods C04 Basic Research in Cancer C05 Elucidating the Function of Cardiac Genes C06 Sensory Disorders C07 Impact of Genomic Medicine on Public and Patients
20:00 – 22:00	Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 7, 2020

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S01 – S05 S01 What to Expect from Prenatal Diagnosis S02 Multi-omics Approaches for Diagnosing Rare Diseases S03 Liquid Biopsy for early Detection of Cancer S04 Our Ancestry S05 Public and Patient Engagement	Educational Sessions E05-E06 E05 Interpreting Variation Outside of Protein-coding Sequence E06 Brain Size Matters!
08:30 – 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C08 – C15 C08 Impact of Diagnostics Improvements in Healthcare C09 Metabolic and Mitochondrial Disorders C10 Rare and Common Variants in Personalized Medicine C11 Multiple Malformation Syndromes I C12 Neuropsychiatry C13 3D Genome Architecture C14 Internal Organs C15 Best Posters 1
12:00 – 13:00	Concurrent Sessions C16 C16 The Interplay of Law, Policy and Genomics
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group A)
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W05 – W11 W05 Exome and Genome Variant Interpretation W06 Prenatal Diagnosis W07 “Treatabolome”: A Treatment Awareness Project for Rare Diseases W08 Science Communication W09 UCSC Genome Browser W10 Community Genetics: Prospects for Curing Genetic Disorders W11 Pharmacogenomics in Practice
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group B)
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S06 – S09 S06 Development and Disease at Single Cell Resolution S07 Making Sense out of Nonsense S08 Strategies and Applications in Translating GWAS to Function S09 Cardiovascular Genetics	Educational Sessions E07-E09 E07 Genome Editing: Multiple Tools and their Applications E08 Does Genetic Counselling Work? E09 Updates on Mitochondria Diagnostics
19:00 – 20:00	ESHG Membership Meeting
19:00 – 20:30	Corporate Satellites

Monday, June 8, 2020

08:30 – 10:00	Concurrent Symposia S10- S14 S10 Beyond Mendelian Inheritance S11 Single Cell Cancer Genetics S12 Embryo and Placenta: Equal Partners S13 Where Science and Ethics Meet S14 Lysosomes in Health and Disease	Educational Sessions E10-E11 E10 Therapy for Rare Disorders E11 Heritability Estimations
08:30- 10:00	Corporate Satellites
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00	Concurrent Sessions C17 – C24 C17 New Therapeutic Approaches C18 Clinical Cancer Research C19 Multiple Malformation Syndromes II C20 Neurogenetics C21 Methods and Applications of Association Studies in Large Cohorts C22 Immunology and Hematology C23 Counselling, Communication and Deliberation C24 Best Posters 2
12:00 – 13:00	Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00	Corporate Satellites
12:15 – 13:00	PL3 ELPAG Award Lecture
13:00 – 14:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group C)
14:15 – 15:45	Workshops W12 – W18 W12 Copy Number Variant Interpretation and Classification W13 Dysmorphology II W14 Exome Pipelines for Clinicians W15 Using the Ensembl VEP for analysing Variants in Rare and Common Disease W16 Genetic Counselling Models for Genomic Screening W17 European Reference Networks – What is in it for me? W18 Reproducible and transparent Analysis with Galaxy
14:15 – 15:45	Corporate Satellites
15:45 – 16:00	Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00	Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee (Group D)
17:15 – 18:45	Concurrent Symposia S15 – S18 S15 ESHG-ASHG Building Bridges Session on Polygenic Risk Scores: Risky or Useful in the Clinic? S16 Detection of Structural Variation S17 Genetic Mechanisms in Haematological Neoplasias S18 Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and Cohesinopathies	Educational Sessions E12-E13 E12 Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine E13 Mainstreaming Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques?
20:00	ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

09:00 – 10:30	Concurrent Symposia S19- S21 S19 Clonal Fitness of Somatic Mutations S20 Data-driven Genomic Care and its Implementation in the Clinic: A Paradigm Shift S21 Integrating Large-scale Functional Data into Genome-wide Association Studies	Educational Sessions E14-E16 E14 Repeat Expansions: From Detection to Treatment E15 Variant Interpretation in Hereditary Cancer: Lessons learned from Big International Consortia E15 Revisiting Consanguinity in the Era of Improved Genomic Diagnosis
11:00 – 12:30	Concurrent Sessions C25 – C31 C25 New Technologies and Approaches C26 Genome Variation and Architecture C27 Late Breaking Session C28 Neurodevelopment C29 Skin & Bones C30 Polygenic Risk Scores: From Tool to Practice C31 Shaping the Genomic Medicine Era
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30	PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:30 – 15:30	PL5 ESHG Award Lecture
15:30 – 16:15	PL6 Awards Session ESHG Education Award EJHG Citation Awards ESHG Awards for Best Presentations by Young Investigators Closing

Welcome to the European Human Genetics Conference
Hybrid Conference - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 12-15, 2027

Welcome to the European Human Genetics Conference
Hybrid Conference - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 12-15, 2027

Programme at a Glance

Pre-conference courses

Thursday & Friday June 10–11, 2027

Conference programme

Saturday June 12, 2027

Sunday June 13, 2027

Monday June 14, 2027

Tuesday June 15, 2027

Click on the session titles to access details.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Monday, June 8, 2020

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Welcome to the European Human Genetics Conference Hybrid Conference - Rotterdam, The NetherlandsJune 12-15, 2027

Programme at a Glance

Pre-conference courses

Thursday & Friday June 10–11, 2027

Conference programme

Saturday June 12, 2027

Sunday June 13, 2027

Monday June 14, 2027

Tuesday June 15, 2027

Click on the session titles to access details.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Monday, June 8, 2020

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Welcome to the European Human Genetics Conference
Hybrid Conference - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
June 12-15, 2027