GHGA Symposium 2024

As part of the GHGA Annual Meeting 2024, GHGA will hold a public symposium on 15 October 2024 in Heidelberg, focusing on topics related to enabling data sharing for health research in Germany and Europe.

The event will feature two sessions, showcasing presentations from GHGA members as well as renowned experts from various European biomedical data initiatives and projects, including the European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI), the German National Cohort (NAKO), NFDI4Health and the genome sequencing model project in Germany. 

Agenda:

Time
 
Speaker
 
Title

14:00

  

Oliver Kohlbacher (GHGA, University of Tübingen)

 

Opening and Welcome Note 

14:15

 

Oliver Stegle (GHGA, DKFZ and EMBL) 

 

 GHGA - From Vision to Implementation

14:45

 

Serena Scollen (GDI, ELIXIR, EMBL-EBI)

 

 Towards cross-border access to human genomes at scale

15:15

 

Annette Peters (NAKO, Helmholtz Munich)                

 

German National Cohort – Status and novel development

15:45

 

Coffee Break

 

 

16:15

 

Léon Kuchenbecker (GHGA, University of Tübingen)

 

 The GHGA Data Portal Technology Stack

16:45

 

Juliane Fluck (NFDI4Health, ZBMed)

 

 NFDI4Health – Services of the National Research Data Infrastructure for personal health data

17:15

 

Andreas Till (MV GenomSeq, BfArM)

 

The German Model Project Genome Sequencing – Current Status and Perspective

 

Attendance is free but we ask for registration. 

The event will be held in English and can be joined either in person or via Zoom.

Date and Time:    15 October, 14:00-18:00
Location:             Marsilius Kolleg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.1, 69120 Heidelberg (or virtual)

  • For virtual participation, please register here.
  • For in person participation, please register here.

A detailed programme will be available soon.