Leena Peltonen School of Human Genomics

Barbara McClintock Pavilion, Hinxton Hall Conference Center

Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1RQ, UK

www.lpshg.com

July 27-31, 2025

Programme

Sunday, July 27

Arrival

15:00-18:00 Registration, Hotel lobby

18:30-19:00 Welcome and opening

19:00 Dinner

Monday, July 28

Note: time for talks 20+5 tutors, 15+5 students

07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 10:50 Session 1 – Functional Genomics of Gene Regulation (Tutors: Mark McCarthy (C), Tuuli Lappalainen/Students: Manu Saraswat, Pia Rautenstrauch, Henry Taylor)

10:50 – 11:20 Coffee break & / student groups to meet and discuss ideas for end of school presentation

11:20 – 12:30 Session 2 – Accelerating Drug Development with Human Genetics (Tutors: Matt Nelson (C), Beryl Cummings/Student: Jakob German)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 3 – Integrating genetics with -omics and exposome (Tutors: Andrea Ganna (C), Zoltan Kutalik/Students: Giacomo Bignardi, Jakob Woerner)

15:00 – 16:00 One on One meetings

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 – 17:50 Session 4 – Insights from Diverse Human Populations (Tutors: Mashaal Sonail (C), Alejandra Medina Rivera/Students: María José Palma Martínez, Daniel Shiloh Malawsky)

17:50 – 19:30 Group work

19:30 Dinner

Tuesday, July 29

07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 10:50 Session 5 – Single cell genomics and multiomics for immune-related responses (Tutors: Gosia Trynka (C), Jacques Fellay/Students: Lucia Ramirez Navarro, Armando Djiyou Djeuda, Hope Affandi Tanudisastro)

10:50 – 11:20 Group photo (Tutors and students – all must be present) & Coffee break

11:20 – 12:30 Session 6 – AI for Genomic Discovery (Tutor: Craig Glastonbury (C)/Students: Eva Holtkamp, Ali Saadat)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Session 7 – Statistical models for human genetics (Tutors: Bogdan Pasaniuc (C), Sasha Gusev/Students: Rasha Shraim, Jordan Rossen)

15:00 – 16:00 One on One meetings

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 – 18:20 Students: Group work, Board/Tutors: meeting about LPSHG future and funding

18:20 – 19:30 Free time

19:30 Dinner

Wednesday, July 30

07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 10:30 Session 8 – Understanding Rare diseases and Noncoding Variants (Tutors: Daniel MacArthur (C), Nicky Whiffin/Students: Christy LaFlamme, Ruchir Rastogi)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Session 9 – Mapping the Full Spectrum of Genetic Variation in Human Disease (Tutors: Hilary Martin (C), Students: Lily Wang, Yuyang Chen, Robert Warderman)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:45 – 14:45 One to One meetings

15:00 – 16:30 Session 10 – Career in science (Tutors: Michelle Trenkmann (C), Daniel MacArthur, Beryl Cummings/Students: All)

17:00 – 17:30 Bus to Cambridge

17:30 – 19:00 Free time in Cambridge

19:00 – 22:00 Dinner, Wordsworth room, St John´s College, Univ. of Cambridge, (St John´s street, CB2 1TP)

Map: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/visit-us/directions-and-map

22:00 Bus back to Campus

22:30 Arrival to Campus

Thursday, July 31

07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast

09:00 – 10:00 Group work