The first lecture of the the Bioinformatics ERA Chair Lecture Series took place on the Monday, June 26, 2017 at the Amphitheatre of theCyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics. We were very pleased to host Dr Inga Prokopenko who is a Senior Lecturer in Human Genomics at the Department of Genomics of Common Disease within the School of Public Health of Imperial College London. Dr Inga gave a very informative talk entitled: “From genetics to multi-omics in studies of diabetes and other complex phenotypes”