L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC
November 9 - 12, 2006
Major Topics
The major themes of the conference will focus on the following:1. What are the major cerebellar malformation syndromes in humans? 2. What are the major clinical features in these patients? 3. What are the major hurdles in achieving consensus on a set of diagnostic criteria for these diseases? 4. Is it possible to perform valid prenatal diagnosis using a combination of imaging and molecular tools? 5. What are the major genetic programs in humans that are involved in cerebellar development? 6. What are the major genetic programs in mouse and zebrafish and do they inform the human studies? 7. What are the major steps in assembling the cerebellum, and how are they disturbed following specific genetic perturbations?
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