European Human Genetics Conference

Past Winners of the
- Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science,
- Isabelle Oberlé Award for Research on Genetics of Mental Retardation
- Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award for the best talk in Statistical Genetics

European Human Genetics Conference 2007
Nice, France;  June 16-19
, 2007
Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science 
Julie Mollet
(Paris)
  Prenyldiphosphate synthase PDSS1 and OH-benzoate prenyltransferase COQ2 mutations in ubiquinin deficiency and oxidative phosphorylation disorders
Zrinka Biloglav
(Zagreb)
  Epidemics of viral hemorrhagic fever in Medieval times as a possible selection pressure for CCR5del32 in Europe; new insights from Croatian island isolates
Liat Linde
(Jerusalem)
  Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay regulates response of cystic fibrosis patients to gentamycin
Emma N. Hilton
(Manchester)
  Left-sided embryonic expression of the BCL-6 corepressor BCOR, is required for vertebrate laterality determination
Dagan Jenkins
(Oxford)
  RAB23 mutations in Carpenter syndrome imply an unexpected role for the Hedgehog signalling in cranial suture development and obesity
 
Isabelle Oberlé Award
Frank J. Kaiser
(Lübeck)
  The cohesion protein NIPBL recruits histone deacetylases to mediate chromatin remodelling
     
Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award
Vincent Plagnol
(Cambridge)
  A genome-wide assessment of the genetic basis of type 1 diabetes
 
Picture gallery of the awarding ceremony

 

European Human Genetics Conference 2006
Amsterdam, The Netherlands;  May 6-9
, 2006
Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science 
Carmine Settembre
(Naples)
  Life without sulfatases: exploiting a mouse model of multiple sulfatase deficiency
Vladimir V. Strelnikov
(Moscow)
  Identification of methylation and expression abnormalities associated with breast cancer
Anne Fechter
(Heidelberg)
  Targeted cloning of fragile sites - based on a previous tagging of fragile regions in a breast cancer cell line
Ursula M. Smith
(Birmingham)
  The transmembrane protein meckelin (MKS3) is mutated in Meckel-Gruber syndrome
     
Isabelle Oberlé Award
Tjitske Kleefstra
(Nijmegen)
  Haploinsufficiency of the Euchromatin Histone Methyl Transferase1 (Eu-HMTase1) gene causes the 9q subtelomeric deletion syndrome.
     
Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award
Samuel Deutsch
(Geneva)
  Quantitative mapping of loci influencing susceptibility to lentiviral infection
Christoph Lange
(Boston, MA)
  Screening and replication using the same data set: A testing strategy for case/control studies
 
Picture gallery of the awarding ceremony

 

European Human Genetics Conference 2005
Prague, Czech Republic;  May 7-10
, 2005
Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science 
Silvia Paracchini
(Oxford)
  Chromosome 6p22 risk haplotype for dyslexia is associated with a reduced expression of KIAA0319 gene
William J. Tapper
(Southampton)
  The first genome wide linkage disequilibrium map
Aida I. Al-Aqeel
(Riyadh)
  Ethics and Genetics: An Islamic Perspective
     
Isabelle Oberlé Award
Bartlomiej Budny
(Berlin/Poznan)
  A new XLMR syndrome characterized by mental retardation, primary ciliary dyskinesia and macrocephaly, caused by a novel mutation in OFD1
     
Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award
Aaron Isaacs
(Rotterdam)
  Plasma lipids: heritabilities, apoE, and effects of inbreeding in a genetically isolated population
 

 

European Human Genetics Conference 2004
Munich, Germany;  June 12-15, 2004
Young Investigator Awards for Outstanding Science 
Ernie Bongers
(Nijmegen)
  Mutations in the human TBX4 gene cause small patella syndrome
Hilde Peeters
(Leuven)
  PA26 is a candidate gene for human heterotaxia
Aurora Pujol
(Strasbourg)
  Functional overlap between ABCD1 (ALD) and ABCD2 (ALDR) transporters: a therapeutic target for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy
Nitin Sabherwal (Heidelberg)   Novel point mutations R173C and A170P in the SHOX homeodomain defines impaired nuclear translocation as a molecular cause for Léri-Weill dyschondrosteosis and Langer dysplasia
Birgit Zirn
(Giessen)
  Expression profiling of Wilms tumors reveals novel prognostic markers
     
Isabelle Oberlé Award
Gajja Salomons (Amsterdam)   High prevalence of SLC6A8 deficiency, a novel X-linked mental retardation syndrome
     
Lodewijk Sandkuijl Award
Manuel A. R. Ferreira (Brisbane)   Accounting for strong age-specific sex-limitation in IgE QTL linkage analysis
 

 

European Human Genetics Conference 2003
Birmingham, England;  May 3-6, 2003
Young Investigator Awards for outstanding science 
Slawomir Wisniewski
(Poznan)
  Mutations of EDA, EDARADD and TRAF6 genes in anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia genotype/phenotype correlation.
Michel De Vos
(Leeds)
  PMS2 mutation as a cause of primitive neuroectodermal tumours of childhood
Martine J. van Belzen
(Utrecht)
  A major non-HLA locus in coeliac disease maps to chromosome 19
     
Isabelle Oberlé Award
Joris A. Veltman
(Nijmegen)
  High resolution whole genome microdeletion screening by array CGH
 

 

European Human Genetics Conference 2002
Strasbourg, France;  May 25-28, 2002
Young Investigator Awards for outstanding science 
John Common 
(London)
  Genetic and functional analysis of connexins in skin disease and deafness
Heymut Omran 
(Freiburg)
  Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left-right asymmetry
Richard Redon
(Illkirch)
  Cyclin L/Ania-6a, a gene located at 3q25, is amplified and overexpressed in a head and neck cancer cell line
     
Isabelle Oberlé Award
Florence Molinari
(Paris)
  Mutation in Neurotrypsin is responsible for autosomal recessive non-specific mental retardation

 

 

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