Program

Program now available here. Late update 2nd May 2008.

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Stephan Beck, Head of Laboratory, University College London, UK
  - "Reverse Phenotyping: Towards an integrated (epi)genomic approach to complex phenotypes and common disease"
  

• Prof. John Burn, Medical Director, Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  -DNA diagnostics: the lessons of the urban motorway

• Prof. Michael Stratton, Deputy Director, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
  - Systematic resequencing of the coding exons of the X chromosome in X-linked Mental Retardation

• Prof. John D. Rioux, Canada Research Chair in Genetics and Genomic Medicine of Inflammation, Associate Professor of Medicine Université de Montréal Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada
  - Genome-wide association studies in inflammatory diseases - taking stock of what we have learned thus far

Sponsored Lectures

• SAGE Publications – Human Genomics to Proteomics – Open Access Journal
  George P. Patrinos
  - National/Ethnic Mutation Databases: Recording Populations’ Genography

• Illumina Inc.
  Debora Bailey
  - Optimizing genotyping arrays for genome-wide associated studies and focused replication studies

• Affymetrix
  Dick Juergenson
  - A genome-wide association platform designed with copy number in mind