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Gene Forum 2015 is an annual international high-level scientific conference on genetics and genomics held in Estonia. This is the major event in the Baltics providing an excellent opportunity to establish and renew contacts in the region. Due to its interdisciplinary scope, the conference brings together 17-18 distinguished experts from Europe and US for discussion of the progress in the field.

During the spring semester of 2014/2015 senior scientists of the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, will teach three new courses for PhD students in English. The courses are now open for registration and the number of participants is limited!

December 9, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) announced the winners of the call for EIT Health and EIT Raw Materials, integrated European partnerships of higher education, business and research aiming to tackle societal challenges across Europe. One of strategic partner is also University of Tartu through pan-European consortia InnoLife.

Stenbock House, 15 December 2014.

Public lecture: “Genetic Basis of Human Disease: The past and future of genomic medicine” by Prof. Eric S. Lander, a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) takes place on December, 12, 16.30-17.15 at Riia str 23B, Tartu. Eric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), former member of the Whitehead Institute, and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career to realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S.

Biotech and EGCUT Lab Seminars, Journal Clubs and Big Seminars Autumn 2014 Big Seminars TIME: 10:15 AM, Thursday, LOCATION: Room 105c Lab Seminars TIME: 14:15 PM, Tuesday LOCATION: Room 218 Journal Clubs TIME: 16:00 PM, Wednesday LOCATION: Room 508

2nd Practical Biobanking Workshop for emerging biobanks was held on 26-27.9.2014 in Helsinki, Finland.

The 2nd BBMRI-LPC Forum Meeting with a theme "Starting from Scratch" was held in Tallinn, Estonia on 23rd of September 2014 The power-point resentations of the meeting are now availible: 1 - Welcome, review of the day, Eero Vuorio, Biocenter Finland, Finland

The 1st international “Practical Biobanking” workshop for the emerging biobanks was held in Tartu, Estonia (28-30 Aug 2013).

The EuroBioForum Annual Conference 2014 - 22 & 23 September in Tallinn, Estonia has now ended. About 100 participants - policy makers, scientists, (young) doctors, patient groups, funding agencies, entrepreneurs and regulators - attended from 22 European Member States and 6 international countries.

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The delegation of Estonian Genome Centre, University of Tartu, paid a visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam last week at the invitation of Dinh Tien Hoang Institute of Medicine. During the visit, a mutual cooperation agreement was concluded for the creation of Vietnam's national biobank. Vietnam is hoping to start collecting the data of gene donors already in the next few years.

The Estonian Genome Center of the University and Tartu and the researchers in the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland used a new technology to discover four mortality-related biomarkers that may in the future prove a valuable indicator on estimating the health state of people and determining the best treatment.

“Evolutionary and functional analysis of polymorphic inversions in the human genome” This project aims to determine the impact of inversions in the human genome at multiple levels by combining methods of different disciplines, such as next-generation genomic analysis, bioinformatics, population genetics, and molecular evolution. Successful candidate will form part of a young, dynamic, and interdisciplinary research team located at the Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina (IBB) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Course: STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY USING R Tartu, Estonia, Friday 30 May to Wednesday 4 June 2014 See also the attached flyer

On Friday, 11 October at 10.00, a science day of a leading science company Thermo Fisher Scientific takes place in Estonia in OMICUM atrium (Riia 23b), where the Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President of the company Klaus Lindpaintner speaks about the role of innovative technologies in science and society. At 12.00, the Rector of the University of Tartu Professor Volli Kalm and Vice President of Thermo Fisher Scientific Klaus Lindpaintner conclude a contract of a mobile biotechnology laboratory project, which aims at promoting science at the University of Tartu.

The 3rd OpenGENE Young Investigator Workshop in The Baltic Region August 27-29, 2012 in Tartu, Estonia

June 8-9, 2012, in Tartu, Estonia An annual international high-level scientific conference on genetics and genomics, the major event in the Baltics, provides an excellent opportunity to establish and renew contacts in the region.

ESHG condemns use of testing to establish ‘racial purity’ Wednesday, June 13, 2012

The 3rd OpenGENE Young Investigator Workshop in The Baltic Region August 27-29, 2012 in Tartu, Estonia