EUROGEMED event (Funded by the European Commission: HPCF-CT-2000-00258)
Preliminary Programme
Sunday 17
Morning Session: INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC ANALYSIS
V.A. McKusick (Baltimore): March of Dimes key-note lecture
S. Antonarakis (Geneva): Evolution of tools for genetic analysis
A.Schinzel (Zurich): Clinical findings in chromosome aberrations
F.Clerget (Paris): How successful can gene fishing be for multifactorial diseases?
14:00 Questions from students on morning lectures
14:30-16:00 Linkage with pencil and paper
16:30-18:00 Concurrent workshops
Monday 18
Morning Session: GENETICS OF COMPLEX TRAITS
G. Romeo (Bologna): Studying non-Mendelian Inheritance in families.
T. Wienker (Bonn): Association Studies
G. Utermann (Innsbruck): Analysis of quantitative traits underlying complex disorders
F. Cambien (Paris): title to be announced
14:00 Questions from students on morning lectures
14:30-18:00 Concurrent workshops
Tuesday 19
Morning Session: MOLECULAR GENETICS
S. Antonarakis (Geneva): Trisomy 21: understanding its molecular pathophysiology
T. Meitinger (Munich): The genetics of blindness
M. Muenke (Bethesda): title to be announced
F. Cucca (Cagliari): title to be announced
14:00 Questions from students on morning lectures
14:30-18:00 Concurrent workshops
Wednesday 20
Morning Session: CLINICAL GENETICS
R. Winter (London): Aids for diagnosis in dysmorphology;
J. Zlotogora (Jerusalem): Penetrance in the molecular age
A. Nicolaides (Cyprus): title to be announced
P. Robinson (Berlin): title to be announced
Thursday 21
Morning Session: MODEL SYSTEMS I
A. Ballabio (Naples): The "genomic" approach in biomedical research;
L. Wrabetz: Transgenic mice model diversity in hereditary neuropathies
G. Persico (Napoli): title to be announced
G.Gasparini (Naples): title to be announced
14:00 Questions from students on morning lectures
14:30-18:00 Concurrent workshops
Friday 22
Morning session: MODEL SYSTEMS AND POPULATION GENETICS STUDIES
J.L. Gu?net (Paris): Mouse models for human disease
R. Baumeister (Munchen): High-throughput functional genomics in C.elegans: an animal model for the analysis of human disease genes.
R. Balling (Neuherberg): title to be announced
G. Pilia (Cagliari):: Asthma in Sardinia
14:00 Questions from students on morning lectures
14:30-18:00 Concurrent workshops
Saturday 23
Lectures to be held in Bologna, Aula Absidale di S.Lucia
Morning session (9:00-12:30): GENOMICS OF ISOLATED POPULATIONS
G. Romeo (Bologna): Introduction
A. Cao (Cagliari): Thalassemias in the Mediterranean
F. Cucca (Cagliari): Diabetes in Sardinia
G. Gasparini (Naples): title to be announced
A. Piazza (Turin): title to be announced
G. Persico(Naples): title to be announced
P. Pramstaller (Bolzano): GenNova: The Genetic Medicine Project South Tyrol. An introduction
G. Romeo (Bologna): title to be announced
T. Meitinger (Munich): title to be announced
Afternoon session (14:30 - 18:00): POPULATION STUDIES, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
A. Santosuosso (Milan): Models and problems of population studies
I. Kennedy (London): The case of the UK database
A. Metspalu (Riga): title to be announced
F. Zweig (Washington): title to be announced
A. Davis (Baltimore): title to be announced
J. Simon (Luneburg): title to be announced
B. Mulligan (Bruxelles): title to be announced
S. Rodot? (Roma): title to be announced
G. Romeo and A. Santosuosso: Conclusions
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