Medical Genetics is a 4 day long postgraduate level course addressed to both researchers and clinicians seeking an up-to-date overview of the field of medical genetics today. It provides an overall view of the clinical developments which are taking place in the major application fields of modern genetics in different medical specialties. The topics covered in the present edition are: Introduction to Medical Genetics and Genome Analysis, Cytogenetics and Clinical Genetics, New Approaches in Medical Genetics, Complex Genetic Disorders and Neurogenetics, Therapy, Technology, Epigenetics and Ethical Issues.

H. Brunner (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

B. Wirth (Cologne, Germany)

Giovanni Romeo (Bologna, Italy)

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Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Morning Session: Introduction to Medical Genetics and genome analysis

9.00 – 9.15         Registration to the course

9.15 – 9.30         Introduction to the course
                         G. Romeo

9.30 – 10.10       Genotypes & phenotypes
                         H. Brunner

10.10 – 10.50     Arrays & CNVs
                         J. Vermeesch   

10.50 – 11.20     Coffee Break

11.20 – 12.00     Complex Genetics GWAS
                         E. Bonora

12.00 – 12.40     Medical Genetics Today
                         Han Brunner
      

12.40 – 14.30     Lunch Break and tour of the Eremo di Ronzano



Afternoon Session: Workshops

14.30 – 16.00        Workshop
16.00 – 16.30        Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00        Workshop




Thursday, 19 May 2011

Morning Session: Clinical and Molecular Genetics

9.00 – 9.50       Genetic counseling
                        B. Wollnik

9.50 – 10.40      Genome sequencing
                        J. Veltman   

10.40 – 11.10     Coffee Break

11.10 – 12.00     Marfan syndrome
                         B. Loeys

12.00 – 12.50     Unstable simple sequence repeat expansions and human disease
                         D. Monckton   

12.50 – 14.30     Lunch Break


Afternoon Session: Workshops


14.30 – 16.00        Workshop
16.00 – 16.30        Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00        Workshop



Friday, 20 May 2011

Morning Session: New approaches in Medical Genetics

9.00 – 9.50         Epigenetics and Epigenomics
                         J. Boeke

9.50 – 10.40       De novo MR
                         J. Veltman

10.40 – 11.10     Coffee Break

11.10 – 12.00     SMA: From gene and modifiers to therapy
                         B. Wirth

12.00 – 12.50     Skeletal Dysplasias
                         B. Wollnik           
       
12.50 – 14.30      Lunch Break


Afternoon Session: Workshops

14.30 – 16.00        Workshop: Synthetic biology, synthetic genomics and implications for medicine
                            J. Boeke

16.00 – 16.30        Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00        Workshop




Saturday, 21 May 2011

Morning Session: Complex genetic disorders and genome diversity

9.00 – 9.50        Schizophrenia
                        D. Valle   

9.50 – 10.40     Mytonic dystrophy
                        D. Monckton

10.40 – 11.10     Coffee Break

11.10 – 12.00     Oligogenic inheritance
                         N. Katsanis

12.00 – 12.50     Human genome diversity conferred by retrotransposons insertion polymorphisms (RIPs)          
                         J. Boeke

12.50 – 14.30     Lunch Break

Afternoon Session: Workshops

14.30 – 16.00        Workshop
16.00 – 16.30        Coffee Break
16.30 – 18.00        Workshop




Sunday, 22 May 2011

Morning Session: Ethics and perspectives in Medical Genetics

9.00 – 9.50        Ethics
                        A. Read

9.50 – 10.40      Evolutionary medicine
                        D. Valle    

10.40 – 11.10    Coffee Break

11.10 – 12.10    Debate: How will genome sequencing change medical genetics?
                        A. Read       

12.30 – 14.00    Lunch Break and Departure

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