ESHG 2021 Virtual Programme explanation

Live sessions

Live sessions will take place at a specific time set in the programme. During this time attendees will have the possibility to ask questions to the presenters in the session chat. A session moderator will convey the questions to the speakers.

All live sessions will be available on-demand from the next day until November 1, 2021. At this stage the interaction with the speakers will be possible via a messaging system.

Live Sessions

On-demand sessions

On-demand sessions are available from the time of release until November 1, 2021. Interaction with presenters is possible via a messaging system incorporated in the virtual platform.

For the on-demand Educational Sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with speakers during dedicated slots in the programme (“Meet the Educational Session speakers”) on Monday, August 30 and Tuesday, August 31, by accessing the live video call in the respective session.

On-demand Sessions

e-Posters

e-Posters will be available to all attendees at all times, from the start of the virtual conference until November 1, 2021. The four 45-minutes slots marked “e‑Poster Viewing with the Authors” should be used for communication and interaction with the e-Poster authors, who are requested to be available live via chat at these times. Outside of the e-Poster discussion times, the interaction with the authors will be possible via a messaging system.

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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
Virtual Conference

August 28–31, 2021

Welcome to the European Human Genetics Conference
Virtual Conference

August 28–31, 2021

Live sessions

On-demand sessions

e-Posters

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 Virtual Conference

August 28–31, 2021

Live sessions

On-demand sessions

e-Posters

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
Virtual Conference