Friday, 22. September 2006   13:30-14:00 Registration at the Vanemuine Conference Hall 14:00-14:15 OPENING OF THE FORUM 14:15-15:40 OPENING SESSION Prof. Philippe Froguel, Imperial College London / Institut Pasteur de Lille, France "New genetic approaches of metabolic diseases in Human" Prof. Cornelia van Duijn, Erasmus Academic Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands "Finding genes for complex genetic disorders in a genetically isolated population" 15:40-16:00 Coffee/tea break 16:00-17:30 SESSION I Dr. Daniela Toniolo, DIBIT - San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy "X-linked premature ovarian failure" Prof. Maris Laan, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Estonia "Gonadotropin hormone beta genes and human reproduction" 20:00 Buffet Dinner Saturday, 23. September 2006   09:00-10:30 SESSION II Dr. Nigel Spurr, GlaxoSmithKline, UK "The use of genetic and genomic biomarkers in drug development" Prof. Samir Brahmachari, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, India "Population polymorphism scanning for development of predictive biomarkers for complex disease and drug response" 10:30-10:50 Coffee/tea break 10:50-13:00 SESSION III Prof. Stanislas Lyonnet, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, University René Descartes-Paris V, France "Genetics and molecular bases of Hirschsprung disease: a model of oligogenic trait" Dr. Markus Perola, University of Helsinki / National Public Health Institute, Finland "Genetic variation in food preferences and chemosensory performance" Dr. Rhian Gwilliam, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK "Scanning the Genome for Genetic Determinants of Complex Traits" 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-16:10 SESSION IV Prof. Ulf Landegren, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden "Tools to study macromolecules and their interactions in solution and in situ" Prof. André Reis, Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany "Copy number variation in mendelian and complex diseases" Dr. Hans van Bokhoven, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands "Chromosomal copy number variation in health and disease" 16:10-16:30 Coffee/tea break 16:30-17:50 SESSION V Prof. Leif Andersson, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Sweden "Domestic animals: a treasure trove for exploring genotype-phenotype relationships" Dr. Howard Cann, Fondation Jean Dausset - CEPH, France "Human Genome Diversity" 17:50 CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE