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Saturday, May 7, 2005

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14.00 Educational Sessions
Session I: Genetic predisposition of cancer
D. Stoppa-Lyonnet, T. Frebourg, H. Vasen
Session II: Syndromology
G. Gillesen-Kaesbach, E. Semanova
Session III: Mutation or polymorphism?
L. Messiaen
Session IV: Design of studies of complex diseases
C. van Duijn
15:45 Opening Ceremony
Chair: L. Peltonen, M. Macek
Presentation of the ESHG education award to Professor Giovanni Romeo
16.30 -
18.00
Opening Plenary Session P1: Medical and Molecular Genetics Research in the Czech Republic: overview of projects with a high impact
Chair: L. Peltonen, M. Macek
16.30 Garrod´s inborn errors of metabolism: Lessons from defective heme pathways
Pavel Martasek
16.50 Garrod´s inborn errors of metabolism: Lessons from homocystinuria
Victor Kozich
17.10 TEL/AML1 fusion gene in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Jan Trka
17.30 New Mouse Model of Human Aneuploidy syndrome
Jiri Forejt
18.00 Coffee Break
18.30 -
20.00
Plenary P2: Pharmacogenetics and prevention
Chair: H. Brunner, S. Aymé
18.30 Pharmacogenetics of drug metabolising enzymes. Implications for a safer and more efficient drug therapy.
Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg
19.00 The future of pharmacogenetics
A. Roses
19.30 Advances in human genetics : what benefits for the patients ?
A. Munnich
20:00 Welcome Reception at the PCC
Sunday, May 8, 2005

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08.45 -
10.15
Plenary P3 Auto-Immune disease
Chair: J. Kere, A. Reis
8.45 Asthma
Juha Kere
9.15 Genes and mechanisms in type 1 diabetes
John Todd
9.45 Genetics of Crohn disease, an archetypal inflammatory barrier disease
Stefan Schreiber
10.15 Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition
10.45 Special Session
The success of the oppositions against the BRCA1 patents: how did it occur and what will be the impact on genetic testing?
G. Matthijs1, D. Halley2, G. Lenoir3, D. Stoppa-Lyonnet4
1Center for Human Genetics, University of Leuven, Belgium; 2Dept of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 3Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France; 4Institut Curie, Paris, France.
11.15 Poster discussion with presenters (odd poster numbers)
12.45 Lunch, Poster Viewing, Exhibition
13.15 Workshops
W1 Cytogenetics
W2 Syndrome identification 1 -
Submit an abstract
W3 Community Genetics
W4 The lessons of CF
W5 Common diseases
15.00 -
16.30
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C01 Cytogenetics
C02 Molecular Genetics I
C03 Complex Genetics I
C04 Signalling and therapy in genetic disease
C05 Clinical Genetics I
16.30 Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition
17.00 -
18.30
Concurrent Symposia
Symposium S1 Systems biology
Chair: GJ van Ommen, L. Foretova
17.00 Systems biology in cardiovascular disease
F. Cambien
17.30 Bioinformatics of signalling pathways
R. Eils
18.00 Integral Membrane Proteins and Visual Defects
J. Findlay
Symposium S2 Kidney disease
Chair: H. Kääriäinen, R. Lukovska
17.00 Lessons from rare disorders: The Bardet-Biedl syndrome
P. Beales
17.30 Nephronophthisis
C. Antignac
18.00 Molecular basis of congenital nephrotic syndrome
M. Zenker
Symposium S3 Mitochondria
Chair: P. Gasparinin, V. Kucinskas
17.00 Mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegeneration
Anu Suomalainen-Wartiovaara
17.30 The assembly of OXPHOS complexes in health and disease 
L. Nijtmans
18.00 Immunohistochemical tests for mitochondrial dysfunction
Rod Capaldi
18.30-
20.30
Free Poster Viewing
Monday, May 9, 2005

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8.45 Plenary P4 Aging
Chair: J.L. Mandel
8.45 Identifying the genes encoding longevity
Rudy Westendorp
9.15 IGF signalling and aging
Martin Holzenberger
9.45 Genetics of early and accelerated ageing syndromes
Nicolas Levy
10.15 Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition
11.15 Poster Discussion with Authors (Even Poster Numbers)
12.45 Lunch, Poster viewing, Exhibition
13.15 Workshops
W6 Quality Control
W7 Syndrome identification 2 - Submit an abstract.
W8 Prenatal Diagnosis
W9 Counselling issues in cancer genetic clinics
W10 Genetic education
15.00- 16.30 Concurrent Sessions - Click here for detailed programme
C06 Genomics and bioinformatics
C07 Complex Genetics II
C08 Clinical Genetics II
C09 Genetic counselling and genetic services
16.30 Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition
17.00 -
18.30
Concurrent Symposia
Symposium S4 Cancer mechanisms
Chair: P. Lichter, P. Goetz
17.00 Genetic and Epigenetic Changes in Early Carcinogenesis
T. Tlsty
17.30 Cell Cycle Control: How to Preserve Genome Integrity during Cell Division?
E. Nigg
18.00 Functional genomics of the Wnt signaling pathway in tumorigenesis
J. Behrens
Symposium S5 Neurogenetics
Chair: S. Lyonnet, G. Rappold
17.00 VEGF in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Peter Carmeliet
17.30 Leukoencephalopathies: from MRI pattern to basic defect
M. van der Knaap
18.00 BDNF signalling in anorexia Bulimia
X. Estivill
Symposium S6 New molecular techniques
Chair: A. Metspalu, L. Kadasi
17.00 Digital karyotyping
M. Speicher
17.30 Canceromics: Molecular, cellular and clinical biochip technologies for cancer genetics
O. Kallioniemi
18.00 Single-molecule detection in situ using padlock and proximity probes
U. Landegren
20.00 Congress Party at 'U.Fleku'
Tuesday, May 10, 2005

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8.45 -
10.15
Concurrent Symposia
Symposium S7 Function of non-coding DNA
Chair: K.H. Grzeschik
8.45 CNGs conserved noncoding
E. Dermitzakis
9.15 Activation of Non-coding RNAs by Epigenetic Therapy
P. Jones
9.45 Ultraconserved elements in the human genome
D. Haussler
Symposium S8 Reproductive genetics
Chair: N. Tommerup, L. Gianaroli
8.45 Overview of preimplantation diagnosis
Luca Gianaroli
9.15 Circulating fetal cells and cell free fetal DNA: what is the current status?
Sinoue Hahn
9.45 Practice of preimplantation genetic diagnosis
I. Liebaers
Symposium S9 Haplotypes
Chair: C. van Duijn, A. Reis
8.45 LD in genetic isolated populations
Cornelia van Duijn
9.15 Selecting the right SNPs for genetic mapping studies in European populations
Thomas Meitinger
9.45 Influence of LD on high-density SNP genome linkage scans
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
10.15 Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition
10.45 -
12.15
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C10 Molecular Genetics II
C11 Prenatal diagnosis and fetal pathology
C12 Cancer Genetics
C13 Normal variation, population genetics, genetic epidemiology
12.15 Lunch, Poster removal, Exhibition
13.15 -
14.00
Plenary P5
Chair: H. Brunner, A. Read
13.15 Late Breaking Research
14.00 Young Investigator Awards
14.30 ESHG Award
14.45 ESHG Award Lecture
Stylianos Antonarakis
15.30 Closing Ceremony

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