GENE FORUM 2010 [June 18-19, 2010]

	Friday, 18. June 2010
08:30-09:00	REGISTRATION AT THE DORPAT CONFERENCE CENTRE, SOOLA 6

09:00-10:25	OPENING SESSION
	Prof Alar Karis, Rector of the University of Tartu, Estonia "Opening of the Conference."
Keynote	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?"

10:25-10:45	Coffee/tea break

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."

12:45-14:00	Lunch (served at the conference centre)

14:00-15:20	SESSION II
Keynote	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"

15:20-15:40	Coffee/tea break

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"

20:00	Buffet Dinner (served at restaurant Atlantis)

	Saturday, 19. June 2010
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, UK "Five-Vertebrate ChIP-seq Reveals the Evolutionary Dynamics of Transcription Factor Binding"

11:00-11:20	Coffee/tea break

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"

13:20-14:30	Lunch (served at the conference center)

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"

16:30	CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE