SEGEG2025 Meeting

South England Genetic Epidemiology Group (SEGEG) 2025

Join colleagues working at the intersection of genetics, epidemiology and public health for the SEGEG 2025 meeting, a one‑day event to disseminate published and ongoing research from across the region. The meeting highlights new methods, population studies, gene–environment analyses and translational work that connects genetic epidemiology to clinical and public‑health practice.

What to expect

• Audience: researchers, clinicians, PhD students, statisticians and public‑health professionals with interests in genetic epidemiology.
• Format: plenary talks of published and in‑progress studies.
• Topics: genome‑wide and sequencing studies, polygenic risk scores, gene–environment interaction, population structure and diversity, intersection of rare and common variant results and approaches, data linkage and privacy, translation to clinical practice and public health.

Why attend

• Hear concise summaries of recent published work from the South England research community.
• Learn about ongoing studies and preliminary results to identify collaboration opportunities.
• Discuss methodological challenges and reproducible workflows with peers.
• Network with early‑career researchers and established investigators in a compact, focused setting.

Who is speaking

• Mix of invited speakers representing universities, NHS research units and public‑health bodies across South England.

Logistics

• Time: Half‑day in‑person meeting from 13:00-17:00 .
• Date: 20 November 2025
• Venue: Sir James Matthews Building 169 Above Bar Street Southampton SO14 7NN[Google Maps link]
• Car Parking: There is no free parking available. We recommend West Park Multi storey or Grosvenor Square multi storey as they will probably have spaces.

Registration

• Registration is free.

Contact

• For enquiries about presenting, accessibility or sponsorship, use the contact form on the Eventbrite page.

Programme

• 12:30 - Registration
• 13:20 - Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 13:30 - Prof. Sarah Ennis (University of Southampton) Using algorithms and AI to identify rare disease diagnoses within a common disease cohort
• 14:00 - Dr. Gareth Hawkes (University of Exeter) Discovery and architecture of rare non-coding regulatory effects using population-scale whole-genome sequencing
• 14:30 - Dr. Moneeza Siddiqui (Queen Mary University of London) The value of diverse ancestries in understanding causes of diseases: insights from GWAS & exome sequencing in south Asians with T2D
• 15:00 - Coffee Break
• 15:30 - Prof. Jordana Bell (King's College London) Exploring variance‑QTLs in monozygotic twins and population samples as an approach to reveal gene–environment interaction effects on human traits
• 16:00 - Prof. Nick Jones (Imperial College London) Cryptic somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in single cells: accumulation in mid–late life, links to ageing hallmarks, and cross‑species insights
• 16:30 - Prof. Marjo-Riitta Järvelin (Imperial College London) Life‑course genetic epidemiology of early growth and development

— SEGEG 2025 aims to be a compact, high‑value meeting to accelerate dissemination and collaboration within the South England genetic epidemiology community.