Every year, the Local Organising Committee organises a National Day, focused around a central theme and during this event, national and international speakers are invited to present recent research advances and clinical applications.  The 2022 LOC is pleased to present the National Day on Genetics.  

Do you have an interesting clinical case or research project in the field?  Submit an abstract to ECTS 2022 main programme and get the chance to be included in the National Day Programme.

How to participate

The National Day will be held on 6 May 2022, during the pre-congress day of the ECTS 2022 Annual Congress in Helsinki.

Costs:

  • € 150,00 for ECTS Members
  • € 200,00 for non Members
  • € 100,00 in combination with ECTS 2022 congress registration

Registering to the Pre-Congress day, will give you access to all other sessions of 6 May, except for the Open Fora.

Visit the Registration Page for more information.

Check the Pre-Congress Day online programme.

Programme Overview

For more details, please visit the ECTS 2022 Scientific Programme.

10:30-11:10 Population genetics in the Nordic countries and the Finnish disease heritage To be confirmed
11:10-11:40 GRACILE syndrome: from gene discovery to targeted treatment To be confirmed
11:40-12:10 FinnGen – Expedition to the frontier of Genomics and Medicine To be confirmed
12:10-12:40 FinRegistry – Machine learning models to understand population health To be confirmed
12:40-13:00 Short presentations from submitted abstracts  
13:00-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-14:30 Disease modelling with pluripotent stem cells and genome editing To be confirmed
14:30-15:00 Bone and bone marrow on a chip To be confirmed
15:00-15:30 Artificial intelligence in bioimage analysis: Deep Learning to study cancer cell migration and metastasis To be confirmed
15:30-16:00 OSTPRE – Insights to osteoporosis from a long-term population-based study To be confirmed