Friday, 12. June 2009   08:30-09:00 REGISTRATION AT THE DORPAT CONFERENCE CENTRE, LOCATED AT SOOLA 6 09:00-10:20 OPENING SESSION Chaired by Prof Andres Metspalu, Estonian Genome Project, University of Tartu, Estonia. Prof Alar Karis, Rector of the University of Tartu, Estonia "Opening of the Conference" Keynote Prof Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China "Sequencing, Sequencing, Sequencing" Prof Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico "Genomic Medicine in Mexico" 10:20-10:40 Coffee/tea break 10:40-12:30 SESSION I - LONGEVITY Chaired by Dr Jaanus Pikani, Estonian Biotechnology Association, Estonia. Prof Eline Slagboom, University of Leiden, The Netherlands "Longevity genetics" Prof Gil Atzmon, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA "Longevity Genes: past, present and future" Prof Jan Vijg, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA "Genome Instability, Aging and Longevity" 12:30-13:50 Lunch (served at the conference centre) 13:50-15:00 SESSION II - HUMAN GENOMICS I Chaired by Prof Ants Kurg, Department of Biotechnology, University of Tartu, Estonia. Prof Donald Conrad, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Insitute, United Kingdom "Population genetic insights into the creation and functional impact of human copy number variation." Prof Sean Ennis, University College Dublin, Ireland & National Centre for Medical Genetics, Dublin,, Ireland "The Autism Genome Project: The Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder." 15:00-16:50 SESSION III - GENOMICS TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS Chaired by Prof Ants Kurg, Department of Biotechnology, University of Tartu, Estonia. Prof Michael S. Phillips, Genome Quebec; Universite de Montreal, Canada "Pharmacogenomics: Paving the Way to Improved Drug Development and Healthcare" Prof Ann-Christine Syvänen, Uppsala University, Sweden "Allele-specific regulation of gene expression by DNA-methylation" Prof Ulf Landegren, Uppsala University, Sweden "Molecular tools for clinical interactomics" 16:50-17:15 Coffee/tea break 17:15-19:00 SESSION IV - USER MEETING ON MOLECULAR ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGIES Chaired by Prof Ants Kurg, Department of Biotechnology, University of Tartu, Estonia. 20:00 Buffet Dinner In the restaurant Atlantis (Narva road 2). Saturday, 13. June 2009   09:00-10:20 SESSION V - HUMAN GENETICS Chaired by Prof Toomas Veidebaum, National Institute for Health Development, Estonia. Prof Dorret Boomsma, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Analysis of Complex Traits" Prof Jüri Allik, University of Tartu, Estonia "Psyhcology and Genetics" 10:20-10:40 Coffee/tea break 10:40-12:40 SESSION VI - GENETICS OF COMPLEX TRAITS Chaired by Prof Pärt Peterson, Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, University of Tartu, Estonia. Prof Markus Nöthen, University of Bonn, Germany "Genetics of bipolar affective disorder" Prof Ben Oostra, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands "Genetic studies in isolated populations" Dr Gerli Pielberg, Uppsala University, Sweden "Domestic animals: a resource for identifying genes behind diseases" 12:40-14:00 Lunch (served at the conference centre) 14:00-16:00 SESSION VII - HUMAN GENOMICS II Chaired by Prof Pärt Peterson, Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, University of Tartu, Estonia. Dr. Brian Naughton, 23andMe Inc., USA "Genetics gets personal: how to read your genome, and what it means for your health." Prof Andres Metspalu, University of Tartu, Estonia "The Estonian Biobank and studies on genetic structure of Europeans" Prof Manfred Kayser, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands "Forensic genomics: from bio-geographic ancestry testing to visible trait prediction" 16:00 CLOSE OF THE CONFERENCE