ICG-17

Speakers

7 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2022

Riga, Latvia

Fred Dubee

Professor, Consultant of BGI, Canada

"Bringing brilliant minds together is always a good idea. Meeting them during the ICG-17 in Riga is exciting."

Yong Hou

President BGI-Europe

"Fascinated by science I am proud and delighted to host the ICG-17 in Riga this year."
Jānis Klovins
Professor, Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre
" Organizing this conference is a fantastic opportunity for me to bring research and technology development closer together – in a beautiful setting. "
Meet our Sessions Leads and Key-note speakers
  • Keynote speaker: Multidisciplinary view on COVID-19 Research
  • Session Lead : Spatially resolved gene expression profiling with single-cell resolution
  • Keynote speaker: Spatially resolved gene expression profiling with single-cell resolution
  • Session Lead: Global success stories & major projects - How can research add value to the community
  • Keynote speaker: Woman in science
  • Keynote speaker: Precision medicine, the future of healthcare
SPEAKERS
ICG-17: The Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Genomics
  • Prof. Aija Linē
    University of Latvia, Latvia
  • Prof. Akin Emmanuel Abayomi
    Lagos State ministry of health, Nigeria
  • Prof. Andre Uitterlinden
    Erasmus Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Anna Kekesi
    Istenhegyi GeneDiagnostic Center, Hungary
  • Prof. Charlotte Ling
    Lund University, Sweden
  • Prof. Colin Palmer
    University of Dundee, United Kingdom
  • Prof. Craig Kinnear
    South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
  • Cynthia Potter
    MGI Tech Co., Ltd., Wales
  • Prof. Davide Cacchiarelli
    Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy
  • Dr. Davids Fridmanis
    Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
  • Dr. Elin Org
    University of Tartu, Estonia
  • Prof. Ewan Pearson
    University of Dundee, United Kingdom
  • Filips Oleskovs
    MGI Tech Co., Ltd., Latvia
  • Dr. Hananiel Prakasya Wijaya
    Granostic Diagnostic Lab, Indonesia
  • Prof. Henk Stunnenberg
    Prinses Máxima Centrum for Pediatric Oncology, Netherlands
  • Dr. István Szatmári 
    University of Debrecen, Hungary
  • Dr. Ivana Morić
    University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • Prof. Jan Mulder
    Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Prof. Janis Klovins
    Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
  • Dr. Jia Hui Khoo
    BGI Research Europe, Latvia
  • Dr. Jurgita Skiecevičienė
    Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania
  • Prof. Karsten Kristiansen
    University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  •  Laura Ansone
    University of Latvia, Latvia
  • Dr. Laurie Goodman
    GigaScience Press, United States of America
  • Dr. Maike Seifert
    Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  • Dr. Marie-Laure Yaspo
    Alacris Theranostics GmbH, Germany
  • Prof. Mark Johnson
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Prof. Mathias Uhlén
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Dr. Mathieu Almeida
    INRAE MetaGenoPolis, France
  • Nik Matthews
    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Prof. Olaf Ries
    University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Prof. Rickard Sandberg
    Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • Rizwana Mia
    South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
  • Dr. Rob Finn
    The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), United Kingdom
  • Dr. Scott Edmunds
    GigaScience Press, Hong Kong
  • Dr. Sidrotun Naim
    IPMI International Business School, Indonesia
  • Dr. Stephen Lye
    Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada
  • Dr. Teresa Cutino-Moguel
    Barts Health, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Triin Laisk
    Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital, University of Latvia, Estonia
  • Prof. Valdis Pirags
    Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital, University of Latvia, Latvia
  • Dr. Vilma Lammi
    FIMM Technology Centre, Finland
  • Dr. Vita Rovīte 
    Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Latvia
  • Dr. Weilin Liu
    MGI, Netherlands
  • Prof. Yannis Pitsiladis
    University of Brighton, United Kingdom
  • Prof. Zhengming Chen
    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Dr. Zisis Kozlakidis
    IARC/WHO, United Kingdom
ABOUT ICG-17, Riga

Over the last 17 years, the International Conference on Genomics (ICG) has been the meeting point for leaders in the emerging field of Genomics to meet and share their experience, knowledge, insights, and questions, to advance understanding and craft collaborations. An integral component of the International Conference on Genomics, ICG-17, Riga will bring together in Riga Latvia, high level scientists, practitioners and institutional executives from Europe and Africa and an international team of expert speakers under the theme OMICS FOR ALL to explore the leading edge in scientific areas. ICG-17, Riga will be a European branch event alongside the Annual International Conference of Genomics hosted in China, which will take place in the same week. In addition participants will be given an information rich tour of the new MGI facilities in Riga and the opportunity to meet the leaders of BGI/MGI Europe and Africa. The event will be both onsite and streamed for remote viewing.

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