Researchers have made huge advances in understanding environmental exposures and their biological effects in recent years. Despite this, there are still many gaps in knowledge. For example, the incidence of diseases such as cancer is rising, and the role of the exposome in this increase is still not fully understood.
The “Frontiers in Human Exposome Research” symposium, hosted by the Human Exposome Assessment Platform (HEAP) project, BBMRI.at and Med Uni Graz, presents the latest exposome research on epigenomics, microbiomics and metabolomics.
The presentations will include an exploration of the legal and ethical issues specific to exposome research data, as well as data management best practice. There will also be a presentation of the HEAP platform itself, and the data analysis solution that it will offer to future generations of researchers.
To register to attend the symposium in person or on-line, click here
Event programme
Wednesday 1st June, 13:00-17:00 (CEST)
Venue: The Medical University of Graz, or on-line
| 13:15 | Welcome video message Caroline Schober (TBC) Vice Rector for Research and International Affairs, Medical University Graz, Austria |
| 13:30 | Biobanking and the exposome Kurt Zatloukal Head of the Diagnostic and Research Centre for Molecular BioMedicine, Medical University Graz, Director of BBMRI.at, Austria |
| New frontiers in exposome research Joakim Dillner Head of Centre for Cervical Cancer prevention, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
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| Measuring the exposome: Delusion or next frontier? Benedikt Warth Head of Exposome Austria and the Global Exposomics & Biomonitoring Laboratory, University of Vienna, Austria |
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| EIRENE – new European research infrastructure for human exposome research Jana Klánová Director of RECETOX, Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
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| 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00 | Globalisation of exposome research – Approaches and cancer research Zisis Kozlakidis Head of Laboratory Services and Biobank Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), France |
| Ethics and legal aspects of exposome research Evert-Ben van Veen Director of MLC Foundation, the Netherlands |
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HopsWorks and the HEAP technical platform |
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The HEAP FAIR toolbox Heimo Müller Group Leader, Information Science and Machine Learning, Medical University Graz, Austria |
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| 16:00 | Coffee Break |
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Personal exposome profiling Ageing and environment -> epigenome -> disease |
| Monitoring lifestyle intervention in the human exposome – the HEAP lifestyle cohort Chiara Herzog European Translational Oncology Prevention and Screening (EUTOPS) Institute, Austria |
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| How your everyday purchases affect your health Frederik Trier Møller Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark |