Former keynote speakers
Each Genetics Retreat - NVHG graduate meeting features a keynote address by a renowned scientist known for his/her groundbreaking research in the broader research areas relevant to human genetics and disease. During and following the keynote address, there is ample opportunity for interaction.
- 2026
Dr. Wouter de Laat (UMC Utrecht), 'Space Odyssey: Scientific journeys building on 3D Genome studies' - 2024
Prof. Jan Hoeijmakers (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam), 'DNA damage and Aging: from Insight to Intervention' - 2023
Prof. René Bernards (NKI, Amsterdam), 'New approaches to cancer therapy: if you do what you did, you get what you got' - 2022
Prof. Musa Mhlanga (University of Cape Town, Radboudumc Nijmegen), 'Having fun with dark matter' - 2019
Prof. Thierry Voet (KU Leuven), 'Single-cell multi-omics to study DNA mutation, genetic heterogeneity and disease' - 2018
Prof. Cisca Wijmenga (UMC Groningen), 'We and our small friends: ins and outs of gut microbiome' - 2017
Nick Loman, PhD (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), 'Introducing the portable nanopore single molecule sequencing revolution' - 2016
Prof. Miikka Vikkula, MD, PhD (University of Louvain, Belgium),'Vascular malformations: from examples of human genetic mosaicism towards clinical trials' - 2015
Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Tübingen/Germany) 'The development of colour patterns in fishes. Towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty'
Prof. Johan Braeckman (Gent, Belgium) 'Why people are extremely gullible' - 2014
Thijn Brummelkamp, PhD (Amsterdam/Vienna) 'Haploid genetics in human cells unravels portals for pathogens' - 2013
Prof. Michael Snyder (San Francisco, USA) 'Adventures in personal genomics and whole omics profiling' - 2012
Prof. Johannes Krause (Tübingen, Germany) 'Learning about human population history from ancient and modern genomes' - 2011
Prof. Joe Nadeau (Seattle, USA) 'Transgenerational genetic effects on phenotypic variation' - 2010
Prof. Allan Balmain (San Francisco, USA) 'Systems genetics analysis of cancer suspectibility: from mouse model to humans'
- 2009
Prof. Edith Heard (Paris, France) 'X-chromosome inactivation: a paradigm for monoallellic gene expression and epigenetics' - 2008
Prof. Stylianos E. Antonarakis (Geneva, Switzerland) 'The mystery of conserved non-coding sequences' - 2007
Prof. Marcus Pembrey (London, United Kingdom) 'Male-line, transgenerational responses in humans – is the Y-chromosome involved?' - 2006
Prof. Roel van Driel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 'Where do we go to in the nucleus?' - 2005
Prof. Jürgen Brosius (Münster, Germany) 'Echoes from the past – are we still in an RNP world?' - 2004
Prof. Brian Hendrich (Edinburgh, Scotland) 'Early development, stem cells and epigenetics' - 2003
Prof. Stephan Beck (Cambridge, United Kingdom) 'From Genomics to Epigenomics' - 2002
Prof. Michel Georges (Liège, Belgium) 'QTL-analysis' - 2001
Prof. Gert Vriend (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) 'Genomics and bioinformatics' - 2000
Prof. Doug Fambrough (Boston, USA) 'Using DNA microarrays to dissect biological problems'