12:00 - 13:30

Registration desk opening and poster mounting

13:30 - 13:45

Opening ceremony

Welcome note

13:45 - 14:20

Marko Gerić

(Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia): ASSESSING THE GENOTOXICITY EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION IN THE HUMAN POPULATION FROM ZAGREB, CROATIA

14:20 - 14:55

Cristiano Vernesi

(Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione Edmund Mach via E. Mach, 1- San Michele all'Adige 38010 (TN), Italy): THE FOUR-YEARS JOURNEY OF A VERY PECULIAR BIKE, THE G-BIKE

14:55 - 15:10

Alicia Mastretta-Yanes

(Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, Mexico): THE STATE OF GENETIC DIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACROSS NINE COUNTRIES FROM ALL CONTINENTS

15:10 - 15:40

Coffee Break/Poster Session

15:40 - 16:15

Irem Deniz

(Manisa Celal Bayar University, Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Manisa, Turkey): APPLICATIONS OF RECOMBINANT MICROORGANISMS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PHAS

16:15 - 16:35

Lada Lukić Bilela

(University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina): BIOTECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL AND CONSERVATION OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN DINARIC KARST CAVES

16:35 - 16:50

Kamil Matulka

(QIAGEN): PATHOGEN DETECTION USING THE DPCR MICROBIAL DNA DETECTION ASSAYS ON THE QIACUITY

19:30 -

WELCOME RECEPTION

Botanic Garden of National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zmaja od Bosne 3

08:30 - 09:00

Registration desk opening

09:00 - 09:35

Duan Chen

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Trondheim, Norway): TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH ON GASTRIC CANCER: BIOMARKERS AND DRUG REPURPOSING

09:35 - 10:10

Chun-Mei Zhao

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Trondheim, Norway): PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF TREATMENT FOR PANCREATIC CANCER: COMPARATIVE PROTEOMICS AND TARGETING EXOCYTOSIS/ENDOCYTOSIS COUPLING

10:10 - 10:45

Zoran Galić

(University of California, Los Angeles, USA): POTENTIAL OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS FOR THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break/Poster Session

11:15 - 11:30

Jadranka Vraneković

(University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology and Genetics, Rijeka, Croatia): RARE RECIPROCAL TRANSLOCATION IN A PATIENT WITH ASTHENOZOOSPERMIA: CASE REPORT

11:30 - 11:45

Amina Kurtović-Kozarić

(Genomenon, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA): THE ROLE OF GENETICS IN THE DISCOVERY OF CANCER TREATMENTS

11:45 - 12:00

Saša Likić

(Biosistemi Grupa d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia): A VIEW FROM THE OUTSIDE: FLUORESCENT IMAGING AND FLOW CYTOMETRY IN VARIOUS RESEARCH AREAS

12:15 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:15

Jeroen Adema

(Illumina): AI FOR GENETIC VARIANT INTERPRETATION TO ADDRESS INTERPRETATION BOTTLENECK

14:15 - 14:30

Maida Hadžić Omanović

(University of Sarajevo - Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina): CELL DEATH INDUCTION IN CANCER TREATMENT, WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT? A STUDY ON UT7 LEUKEMIA

14:30 - 14:45

Dženan Kovačić

(International Burch University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina): COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF MIRNA THERAPEUTIC CANDIDATES FOR PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS: A NEW THERAPEUTIC PARADIGM FOCUSING ON POTENTIATION OF GRANULOMA STABILITY AND STERILIZATION

14:45 - 15:20

Steven J. Jonas

(University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Los Angeles California, USA): CHEMICALLY MODIFIED FILTROPORATION DEVICES ENABLE CRISPR/CAS9-MEDIATED GENE KNOCKOUT IN HUMAN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS

15:20 - 15:45

Jerome A. Zack

(University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles California, USA): TARGETING THE HIV RESERVOIR

19:30 -

CONGRESS DINNER

Apetit Gastro-Wine Bar, Zmaja od Bosne 13

08:30 - 09:00

Registration desk opening

09:00 - 09:35

Erna Karalija

(University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Science, Department for biology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina): PREPARE TO BATTLE: STRESS MEMORY IN PLANTS

09:35 - 09:50

Veronika Lončar

(Faculty of Science University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia): HIGH GENETIC DIVERSITY IN COMMON TERNS FROM EUROPE AS INFERRED FROM MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

09:50 - 10:30

PITCH PRESENTATIONS

Amar Silajdžić; Tea Bećirević; Jesenka Kazazović; Azra Suljić

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break/Poster Session

11:00 - 11:20

Kriti Pathak

(Promega GmbH, Walldorf, Germany): FROM EXTRACTION TO ANALYSIS: PROMEGA OPTIMIZES YOUR GENOMICS WORKFLOW

11:20 - 11:35

Amira Kekić

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Canton Sarajevo, Sarajevo): THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANALYZING TOUCH DNA COLLECTED AT THE CRIME SCENES IN CANTON SARAJEVO

11:35 - 11:50

Mirela Džehverović

(University of Sarajevo - Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina): Y-STR ANALYSIS: ARE WE DIFFERENT FROM OUR MEDIEVAL ANCESTORS?

11:50 - 12:00

Jasmina Čakar

(University of Sarajevo - Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina): SNEAK PEEK AT 3D FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF DIVICANI MAN

12:00 - 00:20

Damir Marjanović

(Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia): DNA ANALYSIS OF HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS: AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES

12:20 - 12:30

Announcement of the award at the end of the Session

Best poster and oral presentation

12:30 - 12:35

Closing of the Congress