08.30 - 10.00

Concurrent Symposia S09 - S12

S09. No Genome for Old (Wo)Men

S09.1 Old men and selfish spermatogonia: how much do they contribute to the mutation burden?
Andrew Wilkie, Oxford, United Kingdom

S09.2 Telomeres, aging and stem cells
K. Lenhard Rudolph, Ulm, Gemany

S09.3 DNA damage and its implications for the aging epigenome
Philipp Oberdoerffer, Frederick, MD, United States

S10. Complex disease 

S10.1 Using custom arrays to improve the understanding of metabolic disorder
Benjamin F Voigt, London, United Kingdom

S10.2 Ankylosing Spondylitis
Matthew Brown, Brisbane, Australia

S10.3 Genetic Analysis of Autoimmune Disease in the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium 2
Chris Spencer, Oxford, United Kingdom

S11. Model organisms for disease

S11.1 Dog: how comparative genetics inform human diseases
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Cambridge, MA, United States

S11.2 Drosophila: Parkinson's disease
Alex J. Whitworth, Sheffield, United Kingdom

S11.3 Modeling Parkinson's disease in zebrafish
Oliver Bandmann, Sheffield, United Kingdom

S12. Prenatal Diagnosis

S12.1 PGD - 21 years on
Joyce Harper, London, United Kingdom

S12.2 Use of aCGH in Prenatal Diagnosis
Arthur L. Beaudet, Houston TX, United States

S12.3 Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis using circulating fetal DNA: state of the art
Dennis Lo, Hong Kong, SAR China

Educational Session ES6. Marfan and EDS

ES6.1 Marfan syndrome: evolving nosology, evolving pathophysiology and evolving treatment with improved survival
Catherine Boileau, Paris, France

ES6.2 The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disorder with many faces
Anne de Paepe, Ghent, Belgium

Coffee Break, Free Poster Viewing, Exhibition

10.30 - 11.30

Poster Viewing with Authors (Even poster numbers)

Educational Session ES7. Noonan Syndrome and Neurofibromatosis

ES7.1 Noonan Syndrome
Martin Zenker, Erlangen, Germany

ES7.2 Neurofibromatosis
Eric Legius, Leuven, Belgium

11.40 - 13.10

Educational Session ES8. European Journal of Human Genetics - How to get your paper published

Introduction
GertJan B. van Ommen, Leiden, The Netherlands, Editor-in-Chief of EJHG

Panel discussion with three Section Editors:
- Stanislas Lyonnet, Paris, France
- Markus Perola, Helsinki, Finland
- Orsetta Zuffardi, Pavia, Italy

Presentation on publishing matters
Pooja Aggarwal, Nature Publishing Group

11.40 - 13.10

Corporate Satellites

Application of PCR Tools for the Analysis of FMR1 Expanded Alleles

Targeted resequencing and novel tools for human genetics research

13.15 - 14.45

Concurrent Sessions C07 - C12 from submitted abstracts

C07 Prenatal Diagnosis and Reproduction
C08 NGS for Gene Identification and Genetic Testing
C09 Clinical genetics and Dysmorphology II
C10 Complex Disease Genetics
C11 Centrosomal and Ciliary Defects
C12 Neuro and Sensory Diseases

Detailed Programme of Concurrent Sessions C07-C12

15.15 - 16.45

Workshops W08 - W14

WS8. Dysmorphology Workshop 2 (D. Donnai, J. Clayton-Smith)
WS 9. Clinical, social, and personal utility of genetic testing (J. Schmidtke, U. Kristoffersson)
WS10. UCSC Genome Browser 2 / Galaxy (R. Kuhn, D. Clements)
WS11. Diagnostic Cytogenetics (R. Hastings, C. van Ravenswaaij-Arts )
WS12. Interpretation of Whole Genome Sequencing (M. Dermitzakis)
WS13. Quality Control (E. Dequeker, M. Morris)
WS14. Genetic Education (P. Farndon, T. Öczelik)

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15.15 - 16.45

Corporate Satellites

New qPCR techniques for translating discoveries into medical realities

Discover the Roche NimbleGen Difference: Using Sequence Capture and CGH to discover mechanisms of disease

17.15 - 18.45

Concurrent Symposia S13 - S16

S13. Epigenetics and imprinting

S13.1 Genomic imprinting: an epigenetic gene regulatory model
Denise Barlow, Vienna, Austria

S13.2 How epigenetics disconnects the ability to learn with increasing age
Roman Stilling, Göttingen, Germany

S13.3 Towards epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS)
Stephan Beck, London, United Kingdom

S14. Cardiovascular Genetics

S14.1 Venous anomalies: From identification of causes towards mouse models
Miikka Vikkkula, Brussels, Belgium

S14.2 CCM protein interactions, double KO mouse models
Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, Paris, France

S14.3 Genomics of blood pressure and hypertension
Anna F Dominiczak, Glasgow, United Kingdom

S15. Population Genetics

S15.1 Jewish population structure
Mait Metspalu, Tartu, Estonia

S15.2 A fine-scale map of recombination rates and hotpots in the chimpanzee reveals conservation and turnover in factors localising cross-overs
Oliver Venn, Oxford, United Kingdom

S15.3 Genome diversity in Asia
Mark Seielstad, San Francisco, CA, United States

S16. Ethics

S16.1 International data sharing in genomics
Jane Kaye, Oxford, United Kingdom

S16.2 Return of results to participants in genetics and genomics research
Annelien Bredenoord, Utrecht, The Netherlands

S16.3 Ethics, genetics and the family
Anneke Lucassen, Southampton, United Kingdom

Educational Session ES9. Copy Number Variation and arrays in practice

ES9.1 Array in practice
Conny van Ravenswaaij-Arts, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

ES9.2 Deciphering Developmental Disorders
Nigel Carter, London, United Kingdom

19.00

ESHG Congress Party