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Free Public Transport Tickets for Conference Attendees
We are pleased to announce that free public transport tickets will be provided to all attendees of the conference. These tickets will be valid from July 22nd to July 26th. You can pick up your ticket at the information desk at the University of Vienna upon arrival. Enjoy convenient and complimentary travel throughout the city during the conference!
Programme
Programme at glance
Updated version from July 18.
Poster Session
List of Presented Posters
Updated version from July 18.
Session 1 + 2: Please put up your poster by Monday 11 am and take it down by Wednesday 1 pm.
Session 3 + 4: Please put up your poster from Wednesday 1 pm and take it down by Friday 6.30 pm.
Don’t forget to print your poster before your trip. Please bring your poster in portrait format A0 (84,1 cm x 118,9 cm or 33.1 inches x 46.8 inches).
Please log in to your participant profile and upload your ePoster to the online gallery by Sunday, 21 July.
Oral Presentation
Each session is scheduled for 20 minutes, which includes a 15-minute presentation and a 5-minute discussion where participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. You will be able to upload your presentation on-site at the time of registration at the Speakers’ desk. Presentations should be in PDF format and provided three hours before your scheduled session.
Please note that unfortunately it is not possible to use your own laptops during presentation, and it is not possible to have a preview when you are presenting. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Programme
Monday, July 22, 2024
| Audimax | Arcaded Courtyard | Big HS | HS 33 | |
| 08:20-10:00 | Opening remarks Bogdan Pasaniuc Polygenic risk scores for precision medicine: promises and challenges Chiara Sabatti Searching for causal variants in polygenic traits | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Thomas Hansen The structure of evolutionary quantitative genetics Jeff Endelman Directional Dominance in Polyploids: Trait Analysis and Mate Selection | |||
| 14:00-16:00 | Poster Session 1 | |||
| 16:00-16:20 | Kerry Geiler-Samerotte The Genotype-Phenotype-Phenotype-Phenotype Map | Torsten Pook Strategies to improve selection compared to selection based on estimated breeding values | Frank Albert Genetic variation in protein degradation | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Laura Luebbert Efficient and accurate detection of viral sequences at single-cell resolution reveals novel viruses perturbing host gene expression | Zhiwu Zhang Emerging Marker Assisted Selection and Genomic Selection | Jose Aquicira Hernandez Scalable single-cell models for robust cell-state-dependent eQTL mapping | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Joshua Popp Dynamic genetic regulation of gene expression in heterogeneous differentiating cultures | Tobias Niehoff Exploiting progeny variances for selection decisions improves genetic gain and variance in genomic breeding programs | Daniel Kaptijn Genetic regulation of single-cell personal gene correlations (co-eQTLs) is highly enriched for GWAS variants | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Natalia Ruzickova Interpretable genomic predictions via effect propagation in gene regulatory networks | Marcio Resende Integrating single kernel Phenomic Selection with Genomic Selection: Applications in Corn Breeding | Guillaume Ramstein Prediction of variant effects by foundation AI models: in vivo validation at nucleotide and haplotype resolution in plant populations | |
| 17:30-19:00 | Welcome reception |
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
| Audimax | Arcaded Courtyard | Big HS | HS 33 | |
| 08:20-10:00 | Piter Bijma Dark Genes: How transmission of infections boosts heritable variation and response to selection Jason Wolf Genetic analysis of intrafamilial interactions | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Susan Johnston The causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination rates Zach Lippman Synergy among cryptic variants in a plant regulatory network drive nonlinear phenotypic effects | |||
| 14:00-16:00 | Poster Session 2 | |||
| 16:00-16:20 | Peter Keightley The impact of spontaneous mutation accumulation on quantitative variation in a mammalian species | Jian Zeng Genome-wide fine-mapping improves identification of causal variants | Xiaoning Zhu Deciphering the genetic mechanisms of complex traits in chicken AIL populations using multi-omics data | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Gregor Gorjanc Quantitative genetic modelling of diverse populations using ancestral recombination graphs | Yakov Tsepilov GentroPy package for ancestry specific systematic fine-mapping of GWAS data, colocalization and drug targets prediction | Hao Tong Leveraging interactome and transcriptome to enhance genomic prediction in plant breeding | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Andrea Doeschl-Wilson Estimating and dissecting host genetic variation underlying infectious disease transmission – methodology and empirical evidence | Yixuan He Multi-trait and multi-ancestry polygenic risk score approach improves genetic discovery and risk prediction of respiratory diseases | Xiandong Ding An efficient analysis method for integrating multiple omics data based on deep learning | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Owen Powell Improving the prediction of non-additive effects with hierarchical genomic prediction models | Lin Qing Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis deciphers the genetic architecture of male fertility in pig | Julia Sidorenko Reconciling linkage and association studies of complex traits | |
| 17:30-18:15 | Naomi Wray Quantitative Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders |
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
| Audimax | Arcaded Courtyard | Big HS | HS 33 | |
| 08:20-10:00 | Jacqueline Sztepanacz Estimating genetic variation and selection in high-dimensional data Guy Sella A population genetic interpretation of genome-wide association studies in humans | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 10:30-12:45 | Jack Dekkers Implementation of a Mechanistic Growth Model for Pigs into Bayesian Methods for Genomic Prediction and GWAS Christine Baes Quantitative Genetic Solutions for Optimizing Livestock Sustainability: Innovations, Genomic Applications, and Future Directions Gustavo de los Campos Improving cross-ancestry PGS Prediction through Transfer Learning using Informative Penalized Regressions and Bayesian Mixture Models | |||
| from 17:50 | Vienna Panorama Sightseeing Tour Meeting point: Vienna State Opera |
Thursday, July 25, 2024
| Audimax | Arcaded Courtyard | Big HS | HS 33 | |
| 08:20-10:00 | Julien Ayroles Transcriptional Dynamics Under Selection: Unraveling Polygenic Adaptation and Stress Responses Michael Goddard Identifying causal variants for histone modification | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Po-Ru Loh Influences of genomic structural variation on human complex traits Joelle Mbatchou Using large language models for rare variant association testing in large-scale biobanks | |||
| 14:00-16:00 | Poster Session 3 | |||
| 16:00-16:20 | Al Depope Light-speed whole genome association testing and prediction via Approximate Message Passing | Leke Victor Aiyesa A new unrestricted assessment toward utilizing individual plant phenotypes and genotypes for breeding | Anna Hewett Inbreeding depression throughout the growth period of wild Swiss barn owls | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Xia Shen Modelling the genetic architecture of complex traits via stratified high-definition likelihood | Michelle Stitzer Transposable element abundance subtly contributes to lower fitness in maize | Richard Bernstein Effective population size in honeybees from pedigree and SNP data | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Matias Schrauf Altered Prior Mean of Allelic Effects: An Approach for Adequately Considering Gene Edited Variants within Genomic Predictions | Neda Rahnamae Can hybridization allow the emergence of a Super-Genotype in Arabis floodplain species? | Elizabeth Mittell The effects of a missing fraction on selection in adult size traits in a wild population | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Dom Waters Reduced rank factor analytic models for capturing genotype by environment interactions in livestock | Yvonne Wientjes Changes in allele frequency and GWAS results across years in two pig populations under selection | Kelly Swarts Isolating adaptive variation from natural forest trees | |
| 17:30-18:15 | Ed Buckler From Climate Change to AI: Improving Agriculture by Learning from Global Biological Diversity | |||
| from 18:15 | Evening reception |
Friday, July 26, 2024
| Audimax | Arcaded Courtyard | Big HS | HS 33 | |
| 08:20-10:00 | Loic Yengo Convergence of heritability estimates from orthogonal experimental designs Augustine Kong Participation bias in genetic studies and estimate adjustments | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | |||
| 10:30-12:00 | Lingzhao Fang The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project for Advancing Agriculture and Biomedicine Amelie Baud The Hologenome 2.0 | |||
| 14:00-16:00 | Poster Session 4 | |||
| 16:00-16:20 | Lars Rönnegård Warning: Selection for decreased variability in milk yield may lead to asocial cows! | Natalia Leite Marker Effect P-Value for Large Genotype Populations with the Algorithm for Proven and Young | Tom Druet Unravelling the genetic architecture of height and muscular development traits in Belgian Blue cattle and using it for genomic prediction | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Christie Warburton IBS versus IBD – new insights from whole genome sequence data | Anthony Long X-QTL mapping using multi-parent synthetic populations is powerful and efficient conditional on experimental design | Martin Johnsson The structure of potentially functional genetic variation in cattle | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Ilse Krätschmer Direct, indirect and epigenetic effects in families | Teresa McGee Increasing power in association mapping with genetic replicates by recognizing variance heterogeneity and exploring implications of near zero-variance | Emre Karaman Incorporating prior biological information into genomic predictions: An example from mastitis in Danish Jersey and Nordic Red cattle | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Thomas Ellis The Effect of Population Structure Correction on GWAS Before and After Random Mating | Nick Machnik Causal inference for multiple risk factors and diseases from genomics data | Naveen Kadri Detection of QTL for global recombination rate in Fleckvieh cattle | |
| 17:30-18:15 | Closing remarks and early career poster and talk prizes |