• What do the genes and the genome represent?
• What can they tell about us, our habits, our looks, our diseases, and our ancestry?
• How can genomics transform medicine in the 21st century?
• Why do national genome projects emerge in more and more countries?
• What are the goals of the Armenian Genome Project?

All these questions will be addressed during the public lecture by local and guest scientists that will arrive in Armenia for the “Genome Bioinformatics for Health 2019” workshop.

Who can attend
All who are interested! This lecture is intended for a wide audience – for people who have no idea about the genome and for those who know quite a bit.

Speakers

Arsen Arakelyan IMB NAS Armenia

Hans Binder Leipzig University Germany

Levon Yepiskoposyan IMB NAS Armenia

Lilit Nersisyan IMB NAS Armenia

Maria Nikoghosyan IMB NAS Armenia

Program

The speakers will deliver short presentations about:

• what the genome is and how genome analysis works
• the genomic history of Armenians and Europeans and their diseases
• challenges of the Armenian Genome project
• genome bioinformatics

The talks will be followed by personal snack-discussions with experts that will be inspired by awesome wines brought to us by Tushpa Wine Cellar!

Working language

The lectures will be in English, discussions can be held in English or Armenian.

Venue

The event will be held in the Diamond House Hotel, Aram street 78, Yerevan, Armenia.