{"id":5047,"date":"2024-02-26T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/human-ecosystems\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:46:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T14:46:46","slug":"ge-course-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/human-ecosystems\/blog\/2024\/02\/ge-course-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Gene and Environmental Exposure interactions to understand Health and Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

19th – 23rd February, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a great week at our first Human Ecosystems Training Course \u201cExploring gene and environmental exposure interactions to understand human health and disease\u201d .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EMBL-EBI training team welcomed 28 participants from Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia to participate in a brand-new course exploring gene and exposure interactions. Fourteen trainers working at the forefront of human cohort and exposure research gave lectures and led hands-on training as part of the 5-day course. Topics included finding and exploring disease associations in human cohort data, conducting polygenic scores and genome-wide association studies, identifying genotype and exposure interactions, and approaches to define the molecular mechanisms of exposures. Prof Roel Vermeulen<\/a> (University of Utrecht) gave an EMBL-wide seminar on the Exposome. Course participants then had the opportunity to explore a new electric car which is about to embark on a journey to measure air pollution levels across European cities, a project led by Roel and Kees de Hoogh (Swiss TPH) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are very thankful to our trainers for providing their expertise; Maria Cerezo<\/a> (EMBL-EBI), Emily Jefferson (HDR UK, Uni of Dundee), Elliot Sollis (EMBL-EBI), Sam Lambert<\/a> (Uni of Cambridge), Tomas Fitzgerald<\/a> (EMBL-EBI), Nat\u00e0lia Vilor-Tejedor (CRG, SPN),  Xiangyu Jack Ge<\/a> (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Giorgia Renne<\/a> (EMBL-Heidelberg), Pu Xia<\/a> (University of Birmingham), Marcos C.<\/a> (EMBL-EBI), Kees de Hoogh (Swiss TPH), Roel Vermeulen<\/a> (University of Utrecht), Marc Jan Bonder<\/a> (University of Groningen) and Oliver Stegle<\/a> (EMBL Heidelberg).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also thank the EMBL-EBI training and support staff, especially the Course Organisers Dayane Ara\u00fajo<\/a> and Marta Lloret Llinares<\/a>, and Scientific Organisers Amy Foreman, Mallory Freeberg<\/a>, and Saskia Hiltemann<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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