On October 24th & October 25th, The Personalised Medicine Network hosted a large scale two-day conference at Moesgaard Museum. Here we invited all the brightest minds of personalised medicine research, including world renowned keynotes.
For more information, please see our website, where you'll find a programme for last year's conference.
8:30-9:00 Coffee and registration
9:00-9:15 Opening of meeting Anne-Mette Hvas, Dean at the Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Denmark
Welcome remarks Anders Børglum, Managing Professor of the Personalised Medicine Network, Aarhus University, Denmark
SESSION I: “HUMAN DIVERSITY” (Chair: Anders Børglum)
9:15-10:05 Opening Keynote: Study of human diversity Kári Stefánsson, deCode Genetics, Iceland
10:05-10:35 Genetics of ADHD – risk loci and genetic overlap with other phenotypes Ditte Demontis, Aarhus University, Denmark
10:35-10:50 Systematic investigation of allelic regulatory activity of psychiatric disorder risk variants Hyejung Won, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
10:50-11:10 Coffee with light refreshment, poster viewing and networking
SESSION II: “TOWARDS PERSONALISED PSYCHIATRY” (Chairs: Doug Speed & Ole Köhler-Forsberg)
11:10-12:00 Keynote: The potential and the barriers for genetic personalised medicine in psychiatry Cathryn Lewis, Kings College London, United Kingdom
12:00-12:30 Polygenic aspects of childhood neurodevelopmental disorders Jakob Grove, Aarhus University, Denmark
12:30-12:40 Flash talk: Polygenic liabilities and treatment trajectories in early-onset depression (presenter: Jessica Mundy)
12:40-13:35 Lunch and networking
13:35-15:05 Poster session and coffee & cake
SESSION III: “DISEASE PROGRESSION AND PHENOTYPIC VARIATION” (Chairs: Claus Gravholt & Camilla Blunk Brandt)
15:05-15:35 Deep learning approaches for analysis of population-wide disease progression data Søren Brunak, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
15:35-16.05 Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of calmodulinopathies Mette Nyegaard, Aalborg University, Denmark
16:05-16:35 Introducing a decision support tool - The Ischemic Heart Disease Algorithm - in clinical practice - a randomised clinical trial Henning Bundgaard, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
16:35-16:55 Flash talks: Exploring the impact of BMI on cancer development (presenter: Johanne Ahrenfeldt) The information system, a unique work tool to optimize drug safety during pregnancy (presenter: Line Kolding og Jakob N. Henriksen)
17:30-20:00 Conference dinner/reception
8:30-9:00 Coffee
SESSION IV: “ADVANCED STATISTICAL METHODS” (Chairs: Liselotte Vogdrup Petersen & Bjarni J. Vilhjálmson)
9:00-9:30 Mendelian Randomisation with Directed Acyclic Graphs learning: Opportunities and pitfalls in personalised medicine Leonardo Bottolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
9:30-10:00 Machine learning with clinical purpose Adam Hulman, Aarhus University, Denmark
10:00-10:20 Flash talks: LDAK-PBAT: A Novel Pathway-Based Analysis Tool for Decoding the Genetics of Complex Diseases (presenter: Takiy Berrandou) Unraveling the regulation mechanism of the human flippase ATP8B1 (presenter: Poul Nissen)
10:20-10:50 Coffee with light refreshment, poster viewing and networking
SESSION V: “EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES” (Chairs: Uffe Birk Jensen & Hannah Chatwin)
10:50-11:40 Keynote: Using genetic epidemiology to inform personalised medicine Per Magnus, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
11:40-12:10 Early life exposures and pubertal development: results from the DNBC Puberty cohort Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark
12:10-13:10 Lunch and networking SESSION VI: “ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES IN CANCER RESEARCH” (Chairs: Martin Bøgsted & Lars Dyrskjøt Andersen)
13:10-14:00 Keynote: Data-driven and functional precision medicine for acute myeloid leukemia and beyond Olli Kallioniemi, SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institute, Sweden
14:00-14:30 The power of circulating tumor cells in Immuno-Oncology Catherine Panabieres, University Medical Centre of Montpellier, France
14:30-15:00 T cell receptor landscape associate with metastasis in bladder cancer Nicolai Birkbak, Aarhus University, Denmark 15:00-15:30 Networking and coffee & cake SESSION VII: “APPLIED PERSONALISED MEDICINE” (Chairs: Deirdre Cronin Fenton & Mikkel Heide Schierup)
15:30-15:50 Flash talks: Social characteristics and adherence to adjuvant endocrine therapy in breast cancer patients (presenter: Julie Schmidt) Genetic variants of the serotonin transporter with functional and pharmacological impact (presenter: Steffen Sinning)
15:50-16:20 Treatment decisions for metastatic cancer patient – implementation of personalised medicine Britt Elmedal Laursen, Aarhus University, Denmark
16:20-16:45 Closing remarks, poster & flash talk awards
The 1st Danish International Conference will return as a biennial event.
Next event will take place in 2025.
We are already starting to organise next year's meeting: 2nd International Moesgaard Conference on Personalised Medicine