24th International Gene Forum to take place in Tartu, 9–10 September 2025

The Institute of Genomics at the University of Tartu, home of the Estonian Biobank, invites you to the 24th annual Gene Forum, co-hosted with the Estonian Genome Foundation.
The event will take place on 9–10 September 2025 at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu.

Gene Forum, the flagship scientific conference on genetics and genomics in the Baltic region since 2000, brings together distinguished experts from around the world. The event fosters interdisciplinary discussion on recent developments and emerging insights in the field.

Registration for the two-day conference is open until 24 August.

For the full programme and to register, visit www.geneforum.ee.

Sessions and speakers

Keynote Speaker
• Eimear Kenny – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA

Complex Genomic Approaches
• Olli Pietiläinen – University of Helsinki, Finland
• Simone Rubinacci – University of Helsinki, Finland, & Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Reproductive Genetics
• Katherine Ruth – University of Exeter, UK
• Pol Sole-Navais – University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Taru Tukiainen – University of Helsinki, Finland

Disease Mechanisms
• Hilary Martin – Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
• Stephen Burgess – University of Cambridge, UK

Ageing
• Juulia Jylhävä – Karolinska Institute, Sweden, & Tampere University, Finland
• Joris Deelen – Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Medical Genetics Meets Big Data
• Nicola Whiffin – University of Oxford, UK
• Peter Krawitz – University of Bonn & University Hospital Bonn, Germany
• Aleš Maver – University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia

Human Origins
• Pontus Skoglund – The Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Mari Sepp – Heidelberg University, Germany
• Martin Kuhlwilm – University of Vienna, Austria

Microbiome
• Tove Fall – Uppsala University, Sweden
• Rob Finn – EMBL-EBI, UK
• H. Bjørn Nielsen – Cmbio, Denmark