Program
HGV2008 Agenda
October 15-17, 2008, Old Mill Inn, Toronto
| Wednesday, October 15, 2008 | |
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| 8:00-9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and Overview Stephen Scherer (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) |
| 9:15-11:10 | Session #1Genome Variation and Data IntegrationSession Clair: Xavier Estivill (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain) |
| 9:15-9:40 | Lars Feuk (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) |
| 9:40-10:05 | James Sikela (University of Colorado-Denver, USA) |
| 10:05-10:30 | Steven McCarroll (Broad Institute, Boston USA) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Paul O'Reilly (Imperial College London, UK) |
| 10:50-11:10 | Itsik Pe'er (Columbia University, USA) |
| 11:10-12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30-2:25 | Session #2Functional Variability: In Search of PlausibilitySession Chair: Thomas Hudson (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto) |
| 12:30-12:55 | Edison Liu (Genome Institute of Singapore) |
| 12:55-1:20 | Mary Relling (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA) |
| 1:20-1:45 | Eddie Rubin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Joint Genome Institute, USA) |
| 1:45-2:05 | Jonathan Mudge (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK) |
| 2:05-2:25 | Teri Manolio (Human Genome Research Institute, USA) |
| 2:25-3:05 | Break, Posters/Vendors |
| 3:05-5:00 | Session #3Comparative Genomics and PopulationsSession Chair: Anthony Brookes (University of Leicester, UK) |
| 3:05-3:30 | Len Pennacchio (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Joint Genome Institute, USA) |
| 3:30-3:55 | Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania-School of Medicine, USA) |
| 3:55-4:20 | Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
| 4:20-4:40 | Tuuli Lappalainen (Finnish Genome Center, University of Helsinki, Finland) |
| 4:40-5:00 | Caleb Webber (Oxford University, UK) |
| 5:00-7:00 | Posters/Vendors Social |
| 7:30 | Dinner, The Old Mill Inn |
| Thursday, October 16, 2008 | |
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| 7:00-8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:00-10:00 | Session #4Genome-wide Studies and Disease SusceptibilitySession Chair: Gonçalo Abecasis (University of Michigan, USA) |
| 8:00-8:25 | Stephen Channock (National Cancer Institute, USA) |
| 8:25-8:50 | Joel Hirschhorn (Children's Hospital, Boston) |
| 8:50-9:15 | Mark McCarthy (University of Oxford, UK) |
| 9:15-9:40 | John Rioux (Montreal Heart Institute, Canada) |
| 9:40-10:00 | Ariel Darvasi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) |
| 10:00-10:40 | Break, Posters/Vendors |
| 10:40-12:15 | Session #5Structural Variants, SNPs and PhenotypesSession Chair: Stephen Chanock (National Cancer Institute, USA) |
| 10:40-11:05 | Nigel Carter (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK) |
| 11:05-11:30 | David Malkin (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) |
| 11:30-11:55 | Pauline Ng (J. Craig Venter Institute) |
| 11:55-12:15 | Meredith Yeager (SAIC/NCI, USA) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:20 | KeynoteIntroduction by Anthony Brookes (University of Leicester, UK)Genome Evolution Svante Pääbo (Max Planck Institute, Germany) |
| 2:20-3:30 | Session #6Genome Variation: Applications and EthicsSession Chair: Michael Morgan (Genome Canada, Ottawa) |
| 2:20-2:45 | David Cox (Pfizer Inc., USA) |
| 2:45-3:10 | Tim Caulfield (Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Canada) |
| 3:10-3:30 | Billie-Jo Hardy (McLaughlin Rotman Centre, University of Toronto, Canada) |
| 3:30-5:30 | Posters/Vendors Social |
| 7:00-9:00 | Off Site Public Symposium “Personalized Medicine: are we there yet?” + Reception Isabel-Bader Theatre, University of Toronto Download poster »» |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 | |
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| 7:00-8:00 | Breakfast |
| 8:00-10:00 | Session #7Genome Variation Technologies, Tools, and BioinformaticsSession Chair: Johanna Rommens (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) |
| 8:00-8:25 | Laura Almasy (Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, USA) |
| 8:25-8:50 | Anthony Brookes (University of Leicester, UK) |
| 8:50-9:15 | Pui Kwok (UCSF, USA) |
| 9:15-9:40 | Elaine Mardis (Washington University-St. Louis, USA) |
| 9:40-10:00 | Han Cao (Bionanomatrix, USA) |
| 10:00-10:40 | Break, Vendors |
| 10:40-1:00 | Session #8Population Genetics and GenomicsSession Chair: Pui Kwok (UCSF, USA) |
| 10:40-11:05 | Michael Egholm (Roche 454, USA) |
| 11:05-11:30 | Gonçalo Abecasis (University of Michigan, USA) |
| 11:30-11:55 | Xavier Estivill (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain) |
| 11:55-12:20 | Esteban Parra (University of Toronto, Canada) |
| 12:20-12:40 | Noah Zaitlen (University of California-San Diego, USA) |
| 12:40-1:00 | Dalila Pinto (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch Farewell/Thank you (Steve Scherer) |
| Saturday, October 18, 2008 | |
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| Day outings organized (eg. Niagara Falls) - all costs to participant |