Preliminary Meeting Agenda
*all times and programming subject to change

All day

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Arrival to Estérel Hotel
(transportation will be organized from Montréal Trudeau International Airport to the hotel and will be shared once details are confirmed. If you arrive before October 17, transportation will be on your own)

Registration

7:00am - 5:30 pm 
7:00 am - 8:15 am
8:15 am - 8:25 am
8:25 am - 8:55 am

Registration
Complimentary Hotel Breakfast
Welcome
Presidential Address
Emmanuelle Génin

8:55 am - 9:55 am

Session 1: Roger Williams Award Finalists
Session Chair: Hae Kyung Im
Presenters: Dandan Tan, Anagh Chattopadhyay, Hongyu Xiao, Urvashi Singh

10:00 am - 10:20 am

Refreshment Break

10:20 am - 11:50 am

Session 2: Keynote Presentation and James V. Neel Award Finalists
Session Chair: Mohamad Saad
Keynote Speaker: Josée Dupuis
Presenters: Divya Sharma, Julien St. Pierre, Nadia Alipour, Fatemeh Yavartanoo

11:50 am - 1:20 pm

Buffet Lunch
IGES Committee Meetings
Young Investigators, Scientific Programming, Publications

1:20 pm - 3:05 pm

Keynote and Session 3: From GWAS to Biological Mechanisms and Drug Discovery
Session Chair: Marie-Pierre Dubé
Keynote Speaker: Mike Inouye
Presenters: Sofia Salazar-Magaña, Rose Laflamme, Dongsoo Lee, Rachel Melamed, Thomas Zheng

3:05 pm - 3:20 pm

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Poster Highlights Session 1
Session Chair: Anvita Kulshrestha
Presenters: Aaron Meyers, Yuriko Katumata, Chao Xing, Stacey Winham, Nicholas Larson

Poster Session 1 
Presenters: Jingxian Wu, Chiemela Odoemelam, Hyunkyu Lee, Richard Howey, Elizabeth Blue, Anna Lorenz, Jinko Graham, Claudia Moreau, Jonathan Bennet Krause, Heejong Sung, Xiaofeng Zhu, Steven Buyske, Victor Vera Fraz√£o, Rebecca Darlay, Alun Jones, Sara Lago, Jayati Sharma, Ghislain Rocheleau, Sergio Ordonez Beltran, Chen-Yang Su, Tianyuan Lu, Aida Eslami, Anthony Herzig, Bandana, Inti Pagnuco, Hayley Power, Katherine Fawcett, Debashree Ray, Roxana Moslehi, Ohanna Bezerra, Jennifer Zevounou, Zeluan LI, Ariane Ange, Isabelle Foote, Jean-François Nepveu, Alexander Tinworth, Elyse Faucher, Michelle Yau, Peter Kraft, Benedikt Fröhlich, Jeewoen Shin, Shuyan Cheng, Michael J. Betti, Dominic Sayers, Cristian Riccio, Shuangyu Zhao, Peyton McClelland, Yan Sun, Brendan Newton, Bowei Xiao

4:20 pm - 5:35 pm

Session 4: Novel Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology
Session Chair: Peter Kraft
Presenters: Mengyu Zhang, Xuexia Wang, Shu-Hsien Cho, Annabel Perry, Sarbani Thakur

7:00am - 5:30 pm 
7:00 am - 8:30 am

Registration
Breakfast Buffet

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Robert Elston Award for Best Paper 2025

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Session 5: Polygenic Risk Prediction and Disease Stratification
Session Chair: Burcu Darst
Presenters: Satoshi Yoshiji, Chuan Fu Yap, Ying Wang, Jiachen Zhang

10:00 am - 10:15 am

10:15 am - 11:20 am

Poster Highlights Session 2
Session Chair: Kristel van Steen
Presenters: Charilaos Zisou, Gilles-Philippe Morin, Nick Shrine, Cienna Gin-Naccarato, Jasmin Junseo Lee

Poster Session 2
Presenters: Matt Saward, Anna Zaidi, Abhinav Kansal, Sebastian Sendel, Iqra Tabassum, Marc Gros La Faige, Yasmeen Ehsan, Maurel Dylane Tchuisse II Mbiagoup, Wendy Shue, Mykhaylo M. Malakhov, Yukun Yang, Adam Giacalone, Anvita Kulshrestha, Heather Highland, Ting-Chen Wang, Alejandro Mejia Garcia, Qihuang Zhang, Amandeep Kaur, Denitsa Vasileva, Lap Sum Chan, Jinling Liu, Wiame Belbellaj, Yaxin Luo, Lavinia Paternoster, Liuyan Zheng, Ana Luiza Arruda, Maggie Wang, Geetha Chittoor, Juan Pablo Tabja Bortesi, Alyssa Green, Despoina Manousaki, Shili Luo, Mohamad Saad, Shihui Peng, Sara Gunderson, Christelle Ngueda Kemda, Ozvan Bocher, Peter Kraft, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, John Baierl, Sam Pedro Galilee Ayivi, Saa Moussa Tenguiano, Zhaotong Lin, Mohan Rakesh, Hsuan (Megan) Tsao, Samaneh Mansouri

11:20 am - 12:50 pm

Buffet Lunch
IGES Committee Meetings
Education, Communications, ELSI

12:50 pm - 2:20 pm

Keynote Presentation and Session 6: Causal Inference and GxE Interaction
Session Chair: Hongyu Zhao
Keynote Speaker: Sriram Sankararaman
Presenters: Stephanie Sheir, Ou Ren, Jessica George, Zhengton Liu

3:50 pm - 4:05 pm
4:05 pm - 5:30 pm
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
7:15 pm - 10:00 pm

Refreshment Break
Business Meeting and Awards
Networking Reception
Annual Awards Banquet

Morning

Transportation to McGill University for the Education Workshop or to the Montréal Trudeau International Airport

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm

1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Workshop Lunch

Education Workshop
AI for Genomic Research: From Language Models to Agentic Flows
Workshop Chairs: Pingzhao Hu, Tae-Hwi Schwantes-an

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Overview of Modern AI Capabilities in Advancing Genomic Research
Speaker: Dr. Yue Li

2:00 pm - 3:20 pm

3:20 pm - 3:40 pm

AI in Genomics: How to Train Your gLM
Speakers: Hae Kyung Im, Henry Raeder

Break

3:40 pm - 4:40 pm

Agentic AI for Transforming the Interplay Between Clinical Care and Genonic Research
Speaker: Bingxin Zhao