The GenomePT Symposium 2023 is a 1-day in-person event dedicated to scientific and technological developments in Genomics. It is focused on the use of next-generation sequencing technologies and computational methods for data analysis to address various scientific questions. The GenomePT Symposium 2023 intends to be a forum for contact between researchers, academics, health professionals and students working in Genomics. In addition to the presentation of oral communications, the event will also include lectures by guest scientists and a round table that will address current topics in Genomics and future challenges. Participants will also be able to get acquainted about the latest advances on sequencing technology platforms and their applications in life sciences.

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PROGRAM:                                                                                                                       

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09:00  RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS

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09:35  WELCOME AND OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM

            Board of Directors – National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA)

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09:45  Present and future of GenomePT

            Manuel Santos - GenomePT Consortium Coordinator and Scientific Director of MIA, University

            of Coimbra

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10:10  ROUND TABLE - THE FUTURE OF GENOMICS AND ITS IMPACT IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

           Teresa Firmino – Science Editor, Público

           Maria Gomes da Silva - Director of Hematology Service, IPO (Lisbon)

           João Paulo Gomes – Head of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, INSA

           José Matos – Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, INIAV

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11:00  POSTER WALKING: Discover more works in Genomics

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11:15  Coffee-Break

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11:30  ORAL COMMUNICATIONS I

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12:10  Clinical Genomics: current applications, hurdles, and the road to future developments

           João Freixo - Clinical Director - CGPP-IBMC

           

12:35 The Portuguese Strategy for Genomic Medicine and European context 

           Astrid Vicente – Head of the Department of Health Promotion and NCD Prevention, INSA

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12:50  Lunch

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14:10  Machine Learning as a tool to uncover the genotype-phenotype mapping:

            advances and current limitations

           Miguel Rocha - Director of the Masters Course in Bioinformatics  - UMinho

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14:35. Forecasting species response to climate change using genomic prediction:

            advances and limitations

           Octávio Paulo - Head of Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group of cE3c &  

           CHANGE, FCUL

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15:00  ORAL COMMUNICATIONS II

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15:50  EXHIBITION: Meet the technology partners for your goals

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16:05. Coffee-Break

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16:20  “One Genome... One Health” – how ATCG can help the nexus of animal, human

             and environmental health (live online lecture)

            Carlos das Neves – Chief Scientist - EFSA

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16:45  What’s new in the human (pan)genome? (live online lecture)

            Adam M. Phillippy - Head of the Genome Informatics Section - NHGRI

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17:10  FINAL REMARKS AND CLOSING OF THE SYMPOSIUM

     Luís Vieira – Head of the Technology and Innovation Unit, INSA

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Registration link:

Registration is closed. There are no more places available for this symposium

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Abstract submission deadline:

10 th October 2023 

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Abstract acceptance notification:

27 th October 2023

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Instructions for preparing abstracts:

All abstracts related with the field of Genomics (sensu lato) are welcome. Abstract submitters must also be registered for the GenomePT Symposium 2023. Abstracts must be sent by e-mail to genomept@insa.min-saude.pt as an attached Microsoft Word document. These must be written in English and should include the following: title, author list (e.g., Pedro A. Duarte, Susana Simão, etc.), affiliations, abstract text, acknowledgments (optional) and funding (if applicable). The title of the abstract must be in Capital Letters, font size 12 bold in Calibri style, and limited to 200 characters including spaces. The abstract text, acknowledgments and funding sections should have a maximum of 2500 characters (including spaces) and be written in Calibri style font size 11. The abstract text must be divided into the following 4 paragraphs: Introduction, Methodology, Results and Conclusions. Each abstract will be reviewed by the Scientific Programme Committee of the GenomePT Symposium 2023. Relevant abstracts will be selected for oral presentation.

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