Wellcome Trust, Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
9th - 11th March 2009
Conference Provisional Programme Monday 9th – Wednesday 11th March 2009 Spoken presentations - If you are an invited speaker, or your abstract has been selected for a spoken presentation, please give an electronic version of your talk to Dr Nigel Carter in the reception area of the Conference centre
Poster presentations – If your abstract has been selected for a poster, please display this in the Cloisters Monday 9th March 2009 15.00 Registration Conference Centre Foyer Session 1 Genomic disorders, copy number variation and clinical practice Francis Crick Auditorium, Chair: Nigel Carter 17.00 ‘The clinical impact of structural variation’ Jim Lupski, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA 17.45 ‘High throughput genomic array analysis as a clinical service’ (speaker tbc) 18.15 ‘The 1000 genomes project’ Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Insititute, UK 18.45 Pre-dinner drinks Conference Centre Foyer 19:30 Dinner Hall Restaurant Tuesday 10th March 2009 07.30 Breakfast Hall Restaurant Session 2 Genomic instabilityFrancis Crick Auditorium, Chair: TBC 08.45 ‘Allelic and ectopic recombination in the human genome’ Sir Alec Jeffereys, University of Leicester, UK 09.30 ‘Mitotic NAHR in the evolution of cancer’ Peter Campbell, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK 10.00 ‘The evolution and modification of long range regulation of gene expression’ Doug Higgs, Wellcome Insitute for Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK 10.30 Morning Coffee Conference Centre Foyer and Cloisters Session 3 Genomic variation in common diseasesFrancis Crick Auditorium, Chair: TBC 11.00 ‘Structural variation in common diseases’ Matt Hurles, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK 11.30 ‘The use of whole-genome technologies to understand the causation of common diseases’, Tim Aitman, Imperial College, London, UK 12.00 ‘Beta-defensins in psoriasis’ John Armour, University of Nottingham, UK 12.30 2 presentations from abstracts 13.00 Lunch Hall restaurant Session 4 Copy number variation and disorders of the brain Francis Crick Auditorium, Chair: Jim Lupski 14.00 ‘Structural variation of the genome in patients with autism’ (speaker tbc) 14.25 ‘Rare chromosomal deletions and duplications increase risk of schizophrenia’ (speaker tbc) 14.50 ‘Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia’ Kari Stefansson, deCODE, Reykjavík, Iceland 15.15 1 presentation from abstracts 15.30 Afternoon Tea Conference Centre Foyer and Cloisters Session 5 Genomic approaches to development disordersFrancis Crick Auditorium, Chair: Dian Donnai 16.00 How genomic disorders illuminate out understanding of human development David Fitzpatrick, Edinburgh, UK 16.30 Using genomic analysis of chromosome 7 to identify a cause of infantile spasms. (speaker tbc) 17.00 Genome-wide approaches to understanding developmental disorders – Deciphering Developmental Disorders Nigel Carter, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK and Helen Firth, Cambridge University Department of Human Genetics, UK 17.30 2 presentations from abstracts 18.00 Poster Session Conference Centre Cloisters 18.45 Pre-dinner drinks Conference Centre Foyer 19:30 Dinner Hall restaurant Wednesday 11th March 2009 07.45 Breakfast Hall restaurant Session 6 Genetics of X-chromosome disorders Francis Crick Auditorium, Chair: TBC 09.00 Genetics of X-Linked Mental Retardation’ Patrick Tarpey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK 09.30 Two X-linked mental retardation syndromes with Rett-like movements in affected males Dian Donnai, University of Manchester, UK 10.00 2 presentations from abstracts 10.30 Morning Coffee Conference Centre Foyer and Cloisters Session 7 Genetic SyndromesFrancis Crick Auditorium, Chair: David Fitzpatrick 11.00 LIS1 dup Orly Reiner, Weizman Institute, Israel 11.30 6 presentations from abstracts 13.00 Lunch Hall Restaurant Session 8 Models of genomic disordersFrancis Crick Auditorium, Chair: TBC 14.00 MicroRNA biogenesis and cognitive and behavioural deficits in a 22q11-deletion mouse model. Maria Karayiorgou, Columbia University 14.30 1 presentation from abstract 14.45 Keynote Lecture: TBC 15.30 Afternoon Tea Conference Centre Foyer and Cloisters Session 9 Genomic disorders – an evolutionary perspective Francis Crick Auditorium, Chair: Helen Firth 16.00 ‘Genomic variation in primate evolution – what makes us human?’ George Perry, University of Chicago, USA
16:30 'Copy number variation in human evolution - genetic diversity and the struggle for survival Chris Tyler-Smith, Sanger Institute, UK 17.00 2 presentations from abstracts 18.45 Pre Dinner Drinks Conference Centre Foyer and Cloisters 19:30 Conference Dinner Hall Restaurant Thursday 12th March 2009
07.30 Breakfast Hall Restaurant 09.30 Coach to Cambridge, LHR via STN depart Conference Centre Foyer
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