Pre-conference courses

(separate registration needed)

Thursday, June 11, 2026 & Friday, June 12, 2026

Conference programme

Saturday, June 13, 2026

08:30 – 10:00 Educational Session E01
E01 Curation of the clinical genome (Variant classification)
Interactive Sessions I01-I02
I01 Episignatures: Clinical utility beyond binary classification and future applications (LRS and prenatal)
I02 Dysmorphology 1
Concurrent Symposia S01-S04
S01 The GWAS locus headache
S02 What’s new on chromosome X: Comparative views across species
S03 Uncovering the Uncommon: Rare Cancers
S04 Empowering Patient in research and clinical practice.
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break – Poster Mounting – Exhibition
10:00 – 11:15 Corporate Sessions
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions C01-C08
12:00 – 13:45 Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:15 ESHG Podcast “Genetic Sounds” Live – Click here to listen to previous episodes
12:15 – 13:45 G01 & G02 Get2Gether
12:15 – 12:45 Corporate Presentations
12:15 – 13:30 Corporate Sessions
13:00 – 13:30 Corporate Presentations
13:40 – 16:00 PL1

13:40-14:10 Welcoming addresses
14:10-14:30 Leena Peltonen Award Lecture
14:30-16:00 Opening Plenary

16:00 – 16:30 Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:30 – 18:00 PL2 What’s New? Highlight Session
from submitted abstracts
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
18:30 – 20:00 Concurrent Sessions C09-C15
20:00-21:30 Opening Networking Mixer

Sunday, June 14, 2026

17:00 – 17:15 Time to change rooms

08:30 – 10:00 Educational Sessions E02-E03
E02 AI for functional genomics and genetic associations
E03 Modelling disease with fish and chips
Interactive Sessions I03-I04
I03 Long-read sequencing for beginners
I04 Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay; research and diagnostic variant assessment and interpretation challenges
Concurrent Symposia S05-S06
S05 Rrrrrrrrepeat-expansions — underestimated source of disease
S06 Chromatinopathies
08:30 – 09:45 Corporate Sessions
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 -11:30 Corporate Sessions
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions C16-C23
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
12:15 – 13:30 Corporate Sessions
12:15 – 12:45 Corporate Presentations
12:15 – 13:15 G03 Get2Gether
12:15 – 13:45 I05 Publishing genomics research
13:00 – 13:30 Corporate Presentations
13:00 – 14:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group A) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 14:15 Time to change rooms
14:15 – 15:45 Corporate Sessions
14:15 – 15:45 Concurrent Symposia S07-S11
S07 Polygenic scores: are we there yet for clinical implementation
S08 Genome architecture: From disease to therapy
S09 Digging into evolution and molecular archeology cancer
S10 Education for and by First Nations genomics researchers
S11 High-throughput perturbation methods to study disease
Interactive Sessions I06-I08
I06 UCSC and ENSEMBL genome browsers
I07 (Digital) Tools and Service Models to Enhance the Delivery and Efficiency of Genetic Counseling
I08 Pharmacogenomics in Practice: From Insight to Action
15:45 – 16:00 Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group B) – Only for in-person participants
18:45 – 20:15 Concurrent Sessions C24-C30

Monday, June 15, 2026

08:30 – 10:00 Educational Session E04
E04 ELSI in AI genomics
Interactive Sessions I09-I11
I09 Cancer
I10 Addressing challenges in scaling up genomic newborn screening
I11 The art of writing, reading and interpreting genomic reports
Concurrent Symposia S12-S14
S12 Blood as a window: genetic insights into health, aging, and immune function
S13 Cytogenetics 2.0 – long-read genomes
S14 Advancing genomics around the world
08:30 – 09:45 Corporate Sessions
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
10:30 -11:30 Corporate Sessions
10:30 – 12:00 Concurrent Sessions C31-C38
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition – Lunch
12:15 – 13:30 Corporate Sessions
12:15 – 12:45 Corporate Presentations
12:15 – 13:15 ESHG General Assembly
12:15 – 13:15 G04 Get2Gether
13:00 – 13:30 Corporate Presentations
13:00 – 14:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group C) – Only for in-person participants
14:00 – 14:15 Time to change rooms
14:15 – 15:45 Educational Session E05
E05 Long-read RNAsequencing and epitranscriptomics
Interactive Sessions I12-I15
I12 Mutations we almost missed
I13 Dysmorphology 2
I14 Predictive testing in neurodegenerative disease: Future directions
I15 Social media in Genetics: a tool for building community, visibility and impact
Concurrent Symposia S15-S17
S15 Tracing human history through genetics: migration, adaptation, and evolution
S16 Translational therapies
S17 From Variants to Function: GWAS, CRISPR, and Organoids for Therapeutic Discovery
14:15 – 15:45 Corporate Sessions
15:45 – 16:00 Fruit Break – Free Poster Viewing – Exhibition
16:00 – 17:00 Poster Viewing with Authors and coffee
(Group D) – Only for in-person participants
17:00 – 17:15 Time to change rooms
17:15 – 18:45 Educational Session E06
E06 AI: From clinical applications to digital twins
Interactive Sessions I16-I17
I16 Structural chromosomal variants
I17 Reproductive carrier screening: impact and follow-up
Concurrent Symposia S18-S21
S18 Evolutionary Shaping of the Human Regulome
S19 Behavioral Genetics and assortative mating
S20 Health economics in genomic medicine – maximising value, minimising waste
S21 Visible difference and hidden information about genetic conditions: the impact of stigma on family life and reproduction
20:00 ESHG Networking Evening

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

09:00 – 10:30 Concurrent Symposia S22-S26
S22 Solving complex cases with multi-omics
S23 The future of prenatal testing
S24 Genetic subtypes of complex traits
S25 Gene editing reaches the clinic
S26 Who owns your genome?
Educational Session E07
E07 ecDNA: the extrachromosomal life
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Concurrent Sessions C39-C44
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 13:50 PL3 ELPAG Award Lecture
13:50 – 14:35 PL4 ESHG Award Lecture
14:35 – 15:20 PL5 Mendel Award Lecture
15:20 – 16:00 PL6 Awards Session
EJHG Citation Awards
ESHG Early Career Awards
Dian Donnai and Jill Clayton-Smith Award
European DNA Day Contest
Closing Address