Preliminary Programme
as per April 13, 2006
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| 10.00 | Registration opens | ||
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12.30 - 15.30 Auditorium |
Educational Session ES2. Statistical Genetic Analysis of Complex
Phenotypes: Focus on Association Studies Programme |
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| 14.00 | Educational Sessions (continued) | ||
| Room L | ES1. Genetic counselling (EMPAG) | ||
| Room N-N1-O-O1 | ES3. Practical management in familial cancer | ||
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16.00 - 16.30 Auditorium |
Opening Ceremony Welcoming Addresses by Peter Heutink (Local host) Andres Metspalu (President of the ESHG) Gerry Evers-Kiebooms (Co-Chair EMPAG) |
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| 16.30 -
18.00 Auditorium |
Plenary Session 1: Advances in genetics Circadian biology, Joke Meijer (Leiden) Impact of genetic testing on breast cancer care, new developments, Hanne Meijers-Heijboer (Rotterdam) Coeliac disease genetics, Ciska Wijmenga (Utrecht) |
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| 18.00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 18.30
- 19.45 Auditorium |
Plenary Session 2: What's new?
Recent discoveries in the genetics of common diseases: selection and
population history C01.
Genomewide Quantitative Trait Association Study of
Cardiac Repolarization (QT-interval) Identifies and fine maps a QTL to the CAPON/NOS1AP
Gene C02. Mutations in the facilitative glucose transporter
GLUT10 alter arterial patterning and cause Arterial Tortuosity Syndrome C03. An extended consanguineous BBS family with two mutant
genes, 3 mutations and no triallelism allows identification of a novel major BBS
gene |
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| 20.00 | Welcome Reception at the RAI | ||
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| 08.45 - 10.15 |
Concurrent Symposia S01 - S03 | ||
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S01. Understanding complex diseases by endophenotypes Analysis of quantitative trait loci, Harald Goring (San Antonio, TX) Endophenotypes for cognitive traits, Eco de Geus (Amsterdam) Gene Expression signatures identify clinically relevant subgroups of cancer- examples from colon and bladder, Torben Orntoft (Aarhus) |
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S02. Genetics of genodermatoses Ectodermal dysplasias, Marja Mikkola (Helsinki) Ichthyosis, Peter Steylen (Maastricht) Genetics of skin pigmentation and pigmentary diseases, Richard Spritz (Denver, CO) |
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S03. The new world of RNA Mechanism and medical implications of RNA surveillance by Nonsense Mediated decay, Andreas Kulozik (Heidelberg) RNA splicing in cancer, Julian P. Venables (Newcastle) Genetics of variation in human gene expression, Vivian Cheung (Philadelphia, PA) |
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| 10.15
- 10.45 |
Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 10.45 | Free Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 11.15 | Poster discussion with presenters (odd poster numbers) | ||
| 12.15 | Lunch, Poster Viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 13.15
- 14.45 |
Workshops W1 - W6 W1. Syndrome Identification I (Auditorium), Dian Donnai, Jill Clayton Smith - Submit an abstract W2. Community Genetics (Room L), Martina Cornel, U. Kristoffersson - Programme W3. Human Genome variability (Room N-N1-O-O1), Andres Metspalu - Programme W4. Twin research (Room B), Dorret Boomsma - Programme W5. Quality control (Room A), Els Dequeker, Michael Morris - Programme W6. Cytogenetics (Forum), Mariano Rocchi - Programme |
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| 15.00 - 16.30 |
Concurrent Sessions C1 - C4 (click on the session name for details) | ||
| Auditorium | C01 Genetic analysis of complex disease I | ||
| Forum | C02 Clinical genetics I | ||
| Room N-N1-O-O1 | C03 Neurogenetics | ||
| Room A | C04 Cancer genetics | ||
| 16.30 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 17.00 -
18.30 |
Concurrent Symposia S04-S07 | ||
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S04. Genetics of sense organs Taste genetics, Beverley Tepper (New Brunswick, NJ) Genetics of smell, Doron Lancet (Rehovot) Genetics of pain perception, A. Dahan (Leiden) |
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S05. Infectious diseases: Genetics matters! Genetic control of infectious disease in humans, Adrian Hill (Oxford) Mice, microbes and models of infection, Rudi Balling (Braunschweig) Mendelian predispositions to infectious diseases, Jean Laurent Casanova (Paris) |
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S06. Chromosomal segregation Constitutional aneuploidy and cancer predisposition, Nazneen Rahman (Sutton) Spindle checkpoint proteins and their multiple roles in regulating chromosome segregation, Claudio E. Sunkel (Porto) Regulating mitosis by proteolysis, John Pines, (Cambridge) |
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S07. Autonomy in decision making (with EMPAG) Cascade screening: whose information is it anyway?, Guido de Wert (Maastricht) Autonomy and prenatal testing decisions, Elizabeth Dormandy (London) Shared decision-making in clinical genetics, Anneke Lucassen (Southampton) |
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| 8.45
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Plenary Session 3: Pathogenesis of human genetic disease Genetic causes of vascular malformations, Miikka Vikkula (Brussels) Huntington disease, Gill Bates (London) Systems biology approaches for the study of aging and age-related diseases, Ralf Baumeister (Freiburg) |
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| 10.15
- 10.45 |
Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 10.45 | Free Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 11.15 | Poster Discussion with presenters (even poster numbers) | ||
| 12.15 | Lunch, Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 13.15
- 14.45 |
Workshops W07 - W12 W07. Syndrome Identification II (Auditorium), Dian Donnai, Jill Clayton-Smith - Submit an abstract W08. Genetic education (Room N-N1-O-O1), Domenico Coviello, Leo ten Kate - Programme W09. Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis (Forum), Maj Hulten, Dennis Lo - Programme W10. History of Genetics (Room A), Toine Pieters - Programme W11. EU projects workshop (Room B), Jean-Jacques Cassiman - Programme W12. EMPAG joint workshop: Challenging genetic counselling case discussion (Room L), Lauren Kerzin-Storrar, Tara Clancy. Anyone interested in attending the workshop W12 is encouraged to bring a summary of a counselling case on ONE OHP and if possible submit to the registration desk by 12 noon on May 8. |
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| 15.00 - 16.30 | Concurrent Sessions C5 - C9 (click on the session name for details) | ||
| Auditorium | C05 Genetic analysis of complex disease II | ||
| Forum | C06 Clinical genetics II | ||
| Room N-N1-O-O1 | C07 Molecular mechanisms of disease | ||
| Room A | C08 Prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis | ||
| Room B | C09 Therapy for genetic disease | ||
| 16.30 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 17.00 -
18.30 |
Concurrent Symposia S08 - S11 | ||
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S08. Recent advances in neurogenetics Age-related Macula degeneration, Caroline Klaver (Rotterdam) Parkinson disease and LRRK2, Thomas Gasser (Tübingen) APP locus duplication causes autosomal dominant early-onset Alzheimer disease with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, Thierry Frébourg (Rouen) |
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S09. Aneuploidy Segmental Duplication and Human Genome Variation, Evan Eichler (Seattle, WA) Deconstructing deletion syndromes: new techniques and old karyotypes, Cornelia M.A. Van Ravenswaay (Nijmegen) Segmental Duplications in 22q11 Mediate Deletions, Translocations and Genomic Instability, Beverly Emanuel (Philadelphia, PA) |
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S10. Comparative genomics Vertebrate chromosome evolution since our last common ancestor, Hugues Roest-Crollius (Paris) Evolution of primary microcephaly genes and the enlargement of primate brains, Andrew Jackson (Edinburgh) (please note the update) The complexity of human genes, Roderic Guigo (Barcelona) |
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S11. Towards measuring quality of genetic counselling (with EMPAG) Separating means from ends: turning back to the goals of genetic counseling, Shoshana Shiloh (Tel-Aviv) What works, and why, in Genetic Counselling? The need for theory, Susan Michie (London) Listening to consumers in genetic healthcare – an audit tool to support measurement of outcomes, Heather Skirton (Somerset) |
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| 20.00 | Congress Party at NEMO Science Center | ||
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| 8.45 - 10.15 |
Concurrent Symposia S12-S14 | ||
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S12. Genetics based cancer treatment Targeting the DNA repair defects in tumours, Alan Ashworth (London) Exploring the role Wnt/ß-catenin signaling in intestinal and mammary cancer stemness, Riccardo Fodde (Rotterdam) Kinases in cancer treatment, Bernd Groner (Frankfurt) |
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S13. Genetics of speech, reading, writing On genes speech and language, Simon Fisher (Oxford) Learning and the cerebellum, Ben Oostra (Rotterdam) Dyslexia, Gerd Schulte-Körne (Marburg) |
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S14. Heart disease – congenital and developmental New insights into molecular genetics of ARVC, Brenda Gerull (Berlin) The role of Tbx1 in DiGeorge syndrome, Antonio Baldini (Houston, TX) Concepts of cardiac development, Anton Moorman (Amsterdam) |
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| 10.15 | Coffee Break, Poster viewing, Exhibition | ||
| 10.45 - 12.15 |
Concurrent Sessions C10 - C13 (click on the session name for details) | ||
| Auditorium | C10 Genetic analysis of complex disease III | ||
| Forum | C11 Clinical and molecular cytogenetics | ||
| Room N-N1-O-O1 | C12 Molecular dysmorphology | ||
| Room B | C13 Genomics, Technology | ||
| 12.15 | Lunch, Poster removal, Exhibition | ||
| 13.15 - 14.00 Auditorium |
Plenary Session 4: Nobel Laureate Lecture
Humanity's Genes |
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| 14.00
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Plenary Session 5: Journal Awards Young Investigator Awards ESHG Award Lecture: Making eyes: Lessons from ocular malformations Veronica van Heyningen (Edinburgh) Closing |
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