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Reede, 18. juuni 2010
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| 08:30-09:00 |
REGISTRATION AT THE DORPAT CONFERENCE CENTRE, SOOLA 6 |
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| 09:00-10:25 |
OPENING SESSION |
| | Prof Alar Karis, Rector of the University of Tartu, Estonia
"Opening of the Conference" |
| Peaesineja | Prof Gert-Jan van Ommen, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands
"Translational genomics, a development model for rare and common disease" |
| | Prof Leif Groop, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden
"Genetics of type 2 diabetes - are we getting any closer?" |
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| 10:25-10:45 |
Coffee/tea break |
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| 10:45-12:45 |
SESSION I |
| | Dr Michael Dean, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA
"Exome sequencing of human tumors and cell lines" |
| | Prof Päivi Peltomäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Genetic and epigenetic signatures of familial cancer – Lynch syndrome as an example" |
| | Dr Andrew Morris, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
"Methodology for the analysis of rare variants with application to central obesity" |
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| 12:45-14:00 |
Lunch (served at the conference centre) |
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| 14:00-15:20 |
SESSION II |
| Peaesineja | Prof Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
"The Neandertal Genome" |
| | Dr Mait Metspalu, Estonian Biocentre, Estonia
"Revealing origins of human populations embedded in their genomes" |
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| 15:20-15:40 |
Coffee/tea break |
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| 15:40-17:00 |
SESSION III |
| | Prof Nancy Pedersen, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
"The Enigma of Gene-Environment Interactions in the Age of GWAS" |
| | Dr Samuli Ripatti, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland
"From genetic variation to disease risk prediction: a view from Finland" |
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| 20:00 | Buffet Dinner (served at restaurant Atlantis) |
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Laupäev, 19. juuni 2010
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| 09:00-11:00 |
SESSION IV |
| | Prof Wilhelm Ansorge, Ecole Polytechnique Federal Lausanne, Switzerland
"Next- Generation DNA Sequencing Techniques and Applications" |
| | Dr Mika Ala-Korpela, University of Oulu and Biocenter of Oulu, Finland
"Serum NMR metabonomes - towards deeper metabolic phenotyping for functional genomics" |
| | Dr Benoit Ballester, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Suurbritannia
"Five-Vertebrate ChIP-seq Reveals the Evolutionary Dynamics of Transcription Factor Binding" |
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| 11:00-11:20 |
Coffee/tea break |
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| 11:20-13:20 |
SESSION V |
| | Prof Cisca Wijmenga, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
"From disease to population studies: from gene discovery to risk prediction" |
| | Prof Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Imperial College London, UK
"Genetic predisposition to alcohol drinking" |
| | Prof Sinuhe Hahn, University Women's Hospital, University of Basel, Switzerland
"Cell-free fetal DNA - new developments" |
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| 13:20-14:30 |
Lunch (served at the conference center) |
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| 14:30-16:30 |
SESSION VI |
| | Prof Riitta Lahesmaa, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Finland
"New genes and mechanisms regulating human T helper cell differentiation" |
| | Prof Darren Monckton, University of Glasgow, UK
"Myotonic dystrophy: complex repeats in a complex disorder" |
| | Prof Mart Saarma, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
"Novel family of Neurotrophic Factors: Structure, Biology and Therapeutic Potential" |
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| 16:30 | CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE |
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