Reproductive Genetics
21th annual BeSHG meeting - September 17th 2021 (Crowne Plaza Hotel, Diegem, Brussels)
Program 2021
Welcome
08:00 - 09:00
Main Hall
Registration
Breakfast is included
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome and Introduction by the President of the BeSHG
Prof. Gert Matthijs
09:15 - 10:30: Plenary Session I - Chairs: Frederik Hes & Willem Verpoest
09:15 - 09:45
Expanded carrier screening : ethical aspects
Prof. Guido de Wert
09:45 - 10:15
Mitochondrial DNA and Reproduction
Prof. Claudia Spits
10:30 - 11:00: Annual General Assembly BeSHG
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break, poster session and exhibition
11:30 - 13:00: Selected Oral Presentations - Parallel Sessions I - Chairs: Julie Soblet & Bert Callewaert
11:30 - 11:45
HRD and GIS in ovarian cancer: does one size really fit all?
Dr Loverix - Astra Zeneca - Diamond Sponsor
11:45 - 12:00
Minocycline attenuates excessive DNA damage response and reduces ectopic calcification in pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Lukas Nollet
12:00 - 12:15
A proof-of-concept study to investigate DNA repair mechanisms in the human embryo after the application of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in the germ line
Bieke Bekaert
12:15 - 12:30
Interim results of a phase i neoantigen-directed personalized cancer vaccine trial
Laurenz De Cock
12:30 - 12:45
Heading towards an in vivo predictive test for personalized ovarian cancer treatment: application of novel therapies in zebrafish patient derived xenografts
Charlotte Fieuws
12:45 - 13:00
Biallelic mutations in cancer genomes reveal local mutational determinants
Jonas Demeulemeester
11:30 - 13:00: Selected Oral Presentations - Parallel Session II - Chairs: Nisha Limaye & Saskia Bulk
11:30 - 11:45
MagnisDx, your solution for an urgent workflow
Koen Weenink - Agilent technologies - Diamond Sponsor
11:45 - 12:00
A multi-omics genome-plus-transcriptome single-cell atlas of human preimplantation development reveals the impact of chromosome instability on cell function within the embryo
Elia Fernandez Gallardo
12:00 - 12:15
Comprehensive PGT for patients with de novo pathogenic variants following single-molecule long read amplicon sequencing based haplotyping
Eftychia Dimitriadou
12:15 - 12:30
A novel tool to analyse oligogenic diseases
Simon Boutry
12:30 - 12:45
Mapping the cis-regulatory landscape of ABCA4 in adult human retina
Victor Lopez Soriano
12:45 - 13:00
Inheritance Patterns of the CGG Short Tandem Repeat
Dale John Annear
13:00 - 14:15: Lunch break - Meet your sponsor and visit posters
14:15 - 15:30: Selected Oral Presentations - Parallel Sessions III - Chairs: Katrien Stouffs & Damien Lederer
14:15 - 14:30
Generation of mab21l2 crispants in Xenopus tropicalis reveals the importance of non-genic elements in human developmental eye anomalies
Munevver Burcu Cicekdal
14:30 - 14:45
Dual molecular effects of dominant SF3B2 variants cause a novel spliceosomopathy displaying retinitis pigmentosa or developmental skeletal anomalies
Stijn Van de Sompele
14:45 - 15:00
Identification of a genetic defect in human STX18 and modelling in zebrafish unravel a key role of syntaxin-18 in chondrogenesis
Brecht Guillemyn
15:00 - 15:15
CCNF (Cyclin F) as a candidate gene for familial Hodgkin lymphoma
Elsa Khoury
15:15 - 15:30
Functional characterization of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes from Brugada syndrome patients of a genetically unresolved family reveals distinct underlying mechanisms
Maaike Alaerts
14:15 - 15:30: Selected Oral Presentations - Parallel Sessions IV - Chairs: Kim van Berkel & Arvid Suls
14:15 - 14:30
Mitochondrial DNA mosaicism in early human development
Joke Mertens
14:30 - 15:00
Methylome Analysis of cfDNA to diagnose preeclampsia presymptomatically
Marie De Borre
14:45 - 15:00
Outcome of publicly funded nationwide first-tier noninvasive prenatal screening
Kris Van Den Bogaert
15:00 - 15:15
The first human importin-β-related disorder: syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm caused by bi- allelic loss-of-function variants in IPO8
Ilse Van Gucht
15:15 - 15:30
Implementation of fetal clinical exome sequencing: comparing prospective and retrospective cohorts
Martina Marangoni
15:30 - 16:00: Coffee/Tea break - Meet your sponsor and visit posters
16:00 - 17:30: Plenary Session II - Chairs: Joris Vermeesch & Martine De Rycke
16:00 - 16:45
The origin of aneuploidy and its relevance for reproduction
Prof. Eva Hoffmann
16:45 - 17:30
Meiosis genes: the difference in meiosis between male and female
Prof. Stéphane Viville
17:30 - 18:00: Closing Remarks and Best Poster/ Presentation Awards
18:00: Reception
For meeting registration and abstract submission, go to 'My BeSHG': https://www.beshg.be/my-beshg