Friday, 23. September 2005   09:30-10:00 Registration at the Vanemuine Conference Hall 10:00-10:10 OPENING OF THE FORUM Prof. Richard Villems, President of Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia 10:10-12:20 OPENING SESSION Prof. Kári Stefánsson, President & CEO, deCODE genetics, Iceland "Population genetics and complex traits." Prof. Richard Villems, Director, Estonian Biocentre, Estonia "Genetic History of Homo Sapiens Sapiens" Prof. Michel Georges, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liege, Belgium "Epigenetic lessons from livestock: towards molecular understanding of polar overdominance at the ovine callipyge locus." 12:20-12:40 Coffee break 12:40-14:00 SESSION I Dr. Mark Gibbs, Illumina Inc., USA "Whole Genome Genotyping on Arrays." Prof. Jukka T. Salonen, Oy Jurilab Ltd and Research Institute of Public Health, University of Kuopio, Finland "Maximizing the power of gene discovery in complex traits by using a founder population." 14:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-16:30 SESSION II Dr. Paul Brennan, Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology, International Agency for Cancer Research, France "Using genetics to identify environmental causes of cancer." Prof. Gerd Utermann, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria "Large scale copy number variation at the apolipoprotein(a)(LPA) locus in 17 world populations." 16:30-16:50 Coffee break 16:50-18:20 SESSION III Prof. Till Roenneberg, Centre for Chronobiology, Institute for Medical Psychology, Munich, Germany "Epidemiology of the human circadian clock." Dr. Martha Merrow, Department of Behavioural Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands "The clock in the genes." 20:00 Buffet Dinner Saturday, 24. September 2005   10:00-11:30 SESSION IV Prof. Han Brunner, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands "Genotypes and phenotypes." Prof. Jan Lubinski, International Hereditary Cancer Center, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland "Population screenings of genetic predispositions as the basis for cancer prevention and surveillance." 11:30-11:50 Coffee break 11:50-13:20 SESSION V Prof. Veronica van Heyningen, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom "Ocular malformations: from Mendelian to complex disease." Prof. Albert Schinzel, Institute of Medical Genetics, Switzerland "The use of clinical data and molecular cytogenetic investigations for gene mapping." 13:20-14:20 Lunch 14:20-15:50 SESSION VI Prof. John Burn, The Institute of Human Genetics, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom "Translation of Complex Genetic Testing into Clinical Genetics." Dr. Tanel Tenson, Molecular Microbiology laboratory at the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia "Inhibitors of protein synthesis: mechanisms of action and resistance." 15:50-16:10 Coffee break 16:10-17:45 SESSION VII Prof. Kurt Zatloukal, University of Graz, Austria "Emerging role of tissue banks for medical genome research and drug discovery." Prof. Andres Metspalu, Department of Biotechnology, University of Tartu, Estonia "Population biobanks and genetics." 17:45 CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE