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Friday, 14. June 2013
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| 09:00-09:10 |
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE |
| | Dr. Marco Kirm, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Tartu, Estonia |
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| 09:10-10:35 |
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Prof. Andres Metspalu, University of Tartu |
| | Prof. Maynard Olson, University of Washington, USA
"“Integrating Genomics and Medicine: the Magnitude of the
Challenge”" |
| | Prof. Munir Pirmohamed, University of Liverpool, UK
"“Clinical Pharmacogenomics”" |
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| 10:35-10:55 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| 10:55-13:00 |
SESSION I
Chair: Prof. Richard Villems, Estonian Biocentre |
| | Prof. Charles Kurland, Lund University, Sweden
"“The Game Changer: Genome Content Roots the Tree of Life”" |
| | Prof. Jukka Corander, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
"“Evolutionary epidemiology in the genomic era”" |
| | Dr. John Chambers, Imperial College London, UK
"“The genomics of complex disease: insights from studies of migrant populations”" |
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| 13:00-14:10 |
LUNCH |
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| 14:10-16:10 |
SESSION II
Chair: Prof. Andres Salumets, University of Tartu |
| | Prof. Outi Hovatta, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
""How to best exclude tumor-forming cells in transplanted (stem) cell population”" |
| | Prof. Timo Tuuri, University of Helsinki, Finland
"“Human pluripotent stem cells in disease modelling”" |
| | Dr. Aare Märtson, University of Tartu, Estonia
"“Bone grafting: an example of regenerative medicine”" |
| | Prof. Toomas Neuman, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
"“Therapeutic cells: Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells”" |
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| 16:10-16:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| 16:30-17:50 |
SESSION III
Chair: Prof. Maido Remm, University of Tartu |
| | Dr. Oliver Stegle, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, UK
"“Harnessing gene-environment interactions to identify functional targets for molecular intervention in phenotype”" |
| | Dr. Frank Dudbridge, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
"“Power and predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores"" |
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| 20:00 | BUFFET DINNER |
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Saturday, 15. June 2013
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| 09:30-11:30 |
SESSION IV
Chair: Prof. Sulev Kõks, University of Tartu |
| | Prof. Michael O'Donovan, Cardiff University, School of Medicine, UK
"“Psychosis, genetics, and glimpses at possible disease mechanisms”" |
| | Dr. Paul Franken, Center for Integrative genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
""Genetic dissection of physiological sleep"" |
| | Dr. Abraham Acevedo-Arozena, MRC Harwell, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK
""Using ENU mutagenesis to identify Huntington's disease modifier genes in the mouse"" |
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| 11:30-11:50 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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| 11:50-13:50 |
SESSION V
Chair: Dr. Lili Milani, University of Tartu |
| | Prof. Matthias Schwab, Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, Germany
"“Pharmacogenomics: update and future direction”" |
| | Prof. Urs Meyer, Biozentrum/University of Basel, Switzerland
""Omics and the Prediction of the Individual Drug Response"" |
| | Prof. David Gems, Institute of Healthy Aging, University College London, UK
""Ageing in /C. elegans/: Molecular damage or hyperfunction?"" |
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| 13:50-15:00 |
LUNCH |
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| 15:00-16:20 |
SESSION VI
Chair: Dr. Krista Fischer, University of Tartu |
| | Prof. Nuala Sheenan, University of Leicester, UK
"“Participant Identification in Genetic Association Studies: Methods and Implications”" |
| | Dr. Nicholas Timpson, University of Bristol, UK
""Probing causality with genetic association: Can studies of genomic variation have any impact?"" |
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| 16:20 | CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE |
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