Provisional programme
Day 1, Thursday 27 May | |
08:30 – 09:15 | Registration |
09:15 – 09:30 | Opening address by Hub Zwart |
09:30 – 10:15 | Plenary session 1 Bartha Knoppers, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Canada, "The « What If » Question: An (Un) Ethical Trump Card?" |
10:15 – 10:45 | Break |
10:45 – 12:15 | |
12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 – 15:30 | |
15:30 – 16:00 | Break |
16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary session 2 Interview with Karen-Sue Taussig, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, about her book Ordinary Genomes. Science, citizenship and genetic identities (Duke University Press, 2009) |
17:00 – 18:00 | Poster session |
18:30 – 19:30 | Drinks in ARTIS |
19:30 – 24:00 | Conference dinner in ARTIS. George Gaskell, Professor of Social Psychology at and pro-director of the London School of Economics, United Kingdom, will give the dinner speech. |
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Day 2, Friday 28 May | |
09:00 – 09:30 | Poster session with breakfast |
09:30 – 11:00 | |
11:00 – 11:30 | Break |
11:30 – 12:15 | Plenary session 3 Keynote lecture by Mike Jetten, Professor of Microbiology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Impact of ecogenomics – discovering the hidden majority and their role in global element cycles |
12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 – 15:00 | |
15:00 – 15:30 | Break |
15:30 – 16:00 16:00 – 16:15 | Future EU-funding possibilities Announcement Poster Prize |
16:15 – 17:15 | Grand Finale Ten Years from Now |






