Pre-conference courses

Thursday, May 22, 2025 & Friday, May 23, 2025 – TBA

Conference programme

Saturday, May 24, 2025

08:30 – 10:00 Educational Sessions E01
E01 Single cell genomics and diseases
Workshop W01-W03
W01 The art of writing, reading, understanding and interpreting genetic reports
W02 Dysmorphology 1
W03 GenEthics
Concurrent Symposia S01-S03
S01 Long-read genomes in health and disease
S02 Viral Mimicry in Cancer
S03 Gaucher’s and Parkinson’s disease: partners in crime
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:15 Corporate Sessions
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions C01-C07
12:00 – 13:45 Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:15 ESHG Podcast “Genetic Sounds” Live – Click here to listen to previous episodes
12:15 – 13:45 G01 Get2Gether: Uniting European Young Initiatives in Human Genetics
12:15 – 13:30 Corporate Sessions
13:45 – 14:15 PL0 Welcoming addresses
14:15 – 14:30 PL1 ELPAG Award Lecture
14:30 – 16:00 PL2 Opening Plenary
16:00 – 16:30 Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00 PL3 What’s New? Highlight Session
from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00 Concurrent Sessions C08-C14
20:00-21:30 Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, May 25, 2025

08:30 – 10:00 Educational Sessions E02
E02 New treatment avenues
Workshop W04-W07
W04 Long-read sequencing for beginners
W05 Structural chromosomal variants
W06 Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay: variant interpretation challenges
W07 Implementing pharmacogenetic testing into de clinics: let’s debate
Concurrent Symposia S04-S05
S04 Genetics at single cell resolution: spatial, temporal and morphology
S05 Decoding actionability, severity, and utility in genomics
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions C15-C22
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:00 – 13:00 Corporate Sessions
12:15 – 12:45 Corporate Presentation
12:15 – 13:15 G02 Get2Gether: European Reference Networks: Are we there yet? + IRDiRC
13:00 – 13:30 Corporate Presentation
13:00 – 14:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group A) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 14:15 Time to change rooms
14:00 – 15:30 Corporate Sessions
14:15 – 15:45 G03 Get2Gether: The Genome of Europe and All of Us initiatives
14:15 – 15:45 Concurrent Symposia S06-S09
S06 Somatic mutations in normal tissues
S07 Genetics of AI-derived phenotypes
S08 Genomics of big neuromuscular genes
S09 Fetal therapies
Workshops W08-W10
W08 Mutations we almost missed
W09 Tools for clinical genome interpretation
W10 Prioritizing the counselling in genetic counselling
15:45 – 16:00 Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group B) – Only for in-person participants
17:00 – 17:15 Time to change rooms
17:15 – 18:45 Concurrent Symposia S10-S13
S10 The non-coding genome: gene regulation and disease
S11 Penetrance and Expressivity
S12 Expanding data sources: technical, ethical and legal considerations
S13 Does genomic screening leave open the door to eugenics?
Educational Sessions E03-E05
E03 Cancer Evolution
E04 Scalable proteomics empower human genetics and epidemiology
E05 Leukodystrophies
18:45 – 20:15 Corporate Sessions

Monday, May 26, 2025

08:30 – 10:00 Educational Sessions E06
E06 Effects of Structural Variants on the 3D Genome
Workshop W11-W13
W11 Benefits and challenges of genomic newborn sequencing: learning from large ongoing programs
W12 Dysmorphology 2
W13 Genomics Data
Concurrent Symposia S14-S16
S14 Reassessing complex trait inheritance through eQTLs
S15 Implementing gene editing
S16 Growth retardation: endocrinologists meet geneticists
08:30 – 10:00 Corporate Sessions
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions C23-C30
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:00 – 13:00 Corporate Sessions
12:15 – 12:45 Corporate Presentation
12:15 – 13:15 ESHG General Assembly
12:15 – 13:15 G04 Get2Gether: Medical Genetics Professionals: what we can anticipate for the future?
13:00 – 13:30 Corporate Presentation
13:00 – 14:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group C) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 14:15 Time to change rooms
14:15 – 15:45 Concurrent Symposia S17-S19
S17 Integrating big data and functional genomics
S18 Telomere-driven aging and disease
S19 Lipids and diseases
Workshops W14-W17
W14 Episignatures pitfalls and usefulness
W15 Advancing Health Equity in Translational Genetics and Genomic Medicine
W16 USCS + Ensembl browsers
W17 Setting up your gene therapy clinical site: dos and don’ts!
14:15 – 15:45 Corporate Sessions
15:45 – 16:00 Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group D) – Only for in-person participants
17:00 – 17:15 Time to change rooms
17:15 – 18:45 Concurrent Symposia S20-S24
S20 Implementation of automated reanalysis of genomic data
S21 Insights from consanguineous populations – Genomes of South Asia
S22 Rewriting cancer treatment and resistance
S23 Rhopathies: Role of Rho GTPases and related genes beyond cancer
S24 Biomolecular Condensates
Educational Session E07-E08
E07 Bridging Genetics and Epigenetics in Human Disease
E08 Mendelian Randomization – concepts and misconceptions
20:00 ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

09:00 – 10:30 Concurrent Symposia S25-S29
S25 Fetal phenotyping
S26 Ultrapersonalised medicine
S27 Chromosome X
S28 More on penetrance and expressivity
S29 First Nations Genomic Research
Educational Sessions E09
E09 Solving rare disease: 1 for all, all for 1
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent Sessions C31-C36
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:15 PL4 Mendel Lecture
14:15 – 15:00 PL5 ESHG Award Lecture
15:00 – 16:00 PL6 Awards Session
EJHG Citation Awards
ESHG Early Career Awards
Dian Donnai and Jill Clayton-Smith Award
European DNA Day Contest
Closing Address