Symposia
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| Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:30 - 10:30 | I Public Population Project (P3G) |
| Room 524 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Cornelia Van Duijn (Netherlands), Andres Metspalu (Estonia) |
| Bartha Knoppers (Canada) | Genetic Databases, International Collaboration and Secondary Uses |
| Lyle Palmer (Australia) | The Western Australian Genome Health Project |
| Cornelia Van Duijn (Netherlands) | Genome wide association studies of complex traits in outbred and isolated populations |
| Paul Burton (UK) | Size matters: the value of large scale genetic epidemiology |
| II Genome Diversity (sponsored by the Annals of Human Genetics) | |
| Room 517 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Debbie Nickerson (USA), Howard Cann (France) |
| Svante Paabo (Germany) | Neanderthal Genomics |
| Ellen Clayton (USA) | Ethical Challenges in Exploring Genomic Diversity |
| Li Jin (China) | Genome Diversity in the Asia-Pacific Region |
| III Regulatory RNAs | |
| Room 520 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Michel Weber (France) |
| Claes Wahlestedt (US) | Regulatory natural antisense transcripts |
| Annick Harel-Bellan (France) | Small non-coding RNAs to understand gene function |
| Michel Georges (Belgium) | Polymorphic miRNA-mediated gene regulation: contribution to phenotypic variation and disease |
| John Mattick (Australia) | The human genome as an RNA machine |
| Wednesday 23 May 2007 08:30 - 10:30 | IV Epigenomics |
| Room 520 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Emma Whitelaw (Australia), Michael Meaney (Canada) |
| Michael Meaney (Canada) | Maternal care, gene expression and epigenetic programming of the HPA stress response |
| Stephan Beck (UK) | The Human Epigenome Project (HEP) |
| Susan Clark (Australia) | Epigenetic silencing in cancer cells |
| Richard Meehan (UK) | Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance methyltransferase, DNMT1, in development and disease |
| V Genetics of Infectious Disease | |
| Room 519 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Chris Goodnow (Australia), Philippe Gros (Canada) |
| Erwin Schurr (Canada) | Leprosy as a human model for the genetic study of common infectious diseases |
| Sarah Tishkoff (US) | Genetic Variation and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Human Evolution and Disease |
| Chris Goodnow (Australia) | Genetic pleiotrophy and negative vs positive regulators of immune responses: analysis by chemically induced SNPs in inbred mice |
| Stephen O'Brien (US) | Genetic Architecture of Complex Infectious Diseases: Lessons from AIDS |
| Thursday 24 May 2007 08:30 - 10:30 | VI Neuropsychiatric Genetics |
| Room 519 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Josef Gecz (Australia), Peter McGuffin (UK) |
| David Porteous (UK) | The DISC1 pathway in psychosis, learning, memory and mood |
| Seth Grant (UK) | Molecular circuitry of the synapse |
| Daniel Geschwind (USA) | Autism: From Gene to Brain to Behavior |
| Michael Hayden (Canada) | Proteolysis and Post-Translational Modifications of Huntingtin: Key Steps in the Pathogenesis of Huntington Disease |
| VII Pharmacogenomics | |
| Room 520 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Michael Phillips (Canada) |
| Wylie Burke (USA) | Pharmacogenomics in Clinical Practice: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Klaus Lindpaintner (Switzerland) | Biomarkers and Medical Practice: Where do we stand? |
| Michael Phillips (Canada) | Pharmacogenomics: Paving the Way to Improved Drug Development and Healthcare |
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