ICG-15

The 15th annual meeting of the International Conference on Genomics (ICG-15) is scheduled to be held on Oct. 25th-31st, 2020 in Wuhan City, China. As in the first announcement released on April 8th when Wuhan City lifted its lockdown, we are happy to share with you the approaching normal situation in Wuhan with most, if not all, of social activities resumed, and extend our warm welcome to all friends to join us for the event.

Following ICG's permanent theme of "OMICS for ALL", the annual theme of ICG-15 is "Omics and Global Health", covering the vast fields of life sciences, especially omics, from global collaboration and education, ethics, the state-of-the-arts and breakthroughs in technology development, to big data and biobanking, global sustainable development, and etc.

Since its first annual meeting, ICG has provided a platform for free discussions related to omics. More than 1,000 prestigious scientists, Nobel Prize winners, academicians from various countries and entrepreneurs have attended the conferences as speakers, and more than 13,000 participants have witnessed the development of life sciences and technologies together with ICG in the past 15 years.

This year, as ICG makes its debut in Wuhan, we will utilize this opportunity to share experience and lessons for the prevention and control of future epidemics. Please come and join us in the late autumn of Wuhan.

SPEAKERS

Xiuwu BIAN

Human pathologist, professor and doctoral student of the First Affiliated Hospital of the PLA Army Medical University Supervisor, Chief Physician, Director of the PLA Institute of Clinical Pathology

Runsheng CHEN

Bioinformatician, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences

George CHURCH

Professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of PersonalGenomes.org

Fu GAO

Director of China CDC, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Fuchu HE

Internationally renowned cell biology, geneticist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Hefeng HUANG

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Fellow Honoris Causa of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG); Academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

Alice HUGHES

Associate professor and group leader at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Le KANG

Distinguished researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, first-level researcher of the Institute of Zoology

Siyang LIU

Research professor in the areas of statistical genetics, molecular epidemiology and bioinformatics.

Zhihua OU

Institute of Precision Health, BGI-Shenzhen

Sara PLATTO

Associate professor of Animal Behavior and Welfare at the College of Life Science, and secretary-general of Biology and Science Ethic (BASE)

Xu QIAN

Associate Professor and Deputy Director in the Department of Clinical Laboratory at the Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital)

Jie QIAO

Reproductive Medicine Expert, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Zhengli SHI

Researcher of Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

Jun SUN

The R&D director of Genetic Department of BGI Genomics.

Weihong TAN

Expert in analytical chemistry and chemical biology, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing Countries