23rd Course in Medical Genetics

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COURSE HAS PARTICULAR ACCOMMODATION INFO. FOR MORE DETAILS, CLICK HERE.

Registration fee: 640 euro + VAT 20% = 768 euro. The fee includes tuition, course material, lunch, coffee break and shuttle bus from Porta San Mamolo (meeting point) to the course venue and back. For info about accommodation, local transportation and other details please contact serena.greco@eurogene.org

The European Society of Human Genetics (www.eshg.org) offered 10 fellowships covering the registration fee. Applicants for fellowships should submit their request together with C.V. and a reference letter to esgm.fellowships@eshg.org . (please put serena.greco@eurogene.org
 in cc). Deadline for submission: March 1, 2010. The beneficiaries of the fellowships will be informed by the 15th of April.

ESHG fellowships have been assigned to:

1) Meena Balasubramanian (United Kindom)
2) Sara Bertok (Slovenia) - REFUSED: FELLOWSHIP NEWLY ASSIGNED TO TSITLAIDI MARIANTHI 
3) Rachel Michaelson- Cohen (Israel)
4) Maria Nazarenko (Russia)
5) Nina Pereza (Croatia)
6) Konstantinos Voskarides (Cyprus)- REFUSED: FELLOWSHIP NEWLY ASSIGNED TO WILSON HAMMAN
7) Jakub Gecz (Slovakia)
8) Isabel Marques (Portugal)
9) Julia Kotalevskaya (Russia)

Poster submission is optional, not compulsory, but we warmly invite all to submit a poster. Participants may decide to submit a poster (max. 70cm X 100cm) illustrating their present research activities (poster abstracts should be sent by e-mail to serena.greco@eurogene.org within max. 1st May). Posters will be displayed in the course venue.

This course envisages European and Italian credits for Continuing Medical Education (CME). Credits will be assigned to physicians and biologists through the accreditation procedure carried out by Menarini International Foundation.   

23rd Course in Medical Genetics
EuroMediterranean University Centre of Ronzano
Bologna (Italy), May 23-28, 2010

DIRECTORS: Han Brunner(Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Giovanni Romeo (Bologna, Italy), Brunhilde Wirth (Cologne, Germany).

SPEAKERS: Dian Donnai (Manchester, UK), Josef Gecz (Adelaide, Australia), Bernhard Horsthemke (Essen, Germany), Nicholas Katsanis (Baltimore, USA), Johannes Krause (Leipzig, Germany), Bart Loeys (Ghent, Belgium), Elena Maestrini (Bologna, Italy), Andrew Read (Manchester, UK), Olaf Riess ( Tuebingen, Germany),  Michael Speacher (Graz, Austria), David Valle (Baltimore, USA), Joris Veltman (Nijmegen, The Netherlands).

Sunday, May 23rd

Morning session: INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOME ANALYSIS

08:30: G. Romeo, Overview of the course

09:00: D. Donnai, Medical Genetics today

09:45: A. Read, Process of disease gene discovery-monogenic disorders

10:30: Coffee break

11:00: H. Brunner, Genotypes and Phenotypes

11:45: J. Krause, The Neandertal Genome Project

12:30: Questions from students on morning lectures

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session: 14:30 - 18:00

Concurrent Workshops

Monday, May 24th

Morning session: CYTOGENETICS AND CLINICAL GENETICS

09:00: D. Donnai, Basic Concepts in Dysmorphology

09:45: M. Speicher, Cytogenetic Techniques

10:30: Coffee break

11:00: H. Brunner, Chromosomal Syndromes

11:45: J. Veltman, Next Generation Sequencing

12:30: Questions from students on morning lectures

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session: 14:30 - 18:00

Concurrent Workshops

Tuesday,  May 25th

Morning session: NEW APPROACHES IN MEDICAL GENETICS

09:00: B. Loeys

09:45: N. Katsanis, Ciliopathies and Zebrafish as model organism

10:30: Coffee break

11:00: J. Gecz, Capitalising on genomics to understand the genetics and biology of (primarily X-Linked) learning disability.

11:45: O. Riess, What can animal models teach us on the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases?

12:30: Questions from students on morning lectures

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session: SIGHTSEEING TOUR

Wednesday, May 26th

Morning session: COMPLEX GENETIC DISORDERS AND NEUROGENETICS

09:00: E. Maestrini, Complex Traits

09:45: D. Valle, Schizophrenia

10:30: Coffee break

11:00: N. Katsanis, Genetic architecture of disease

11:45: O. Riess, Clinical and genetic complexity of movement disorders: Practical guide for diagnostics

12:30: Questions from students on morning lectures

13:00: Lunch break

Thursday, May 27th

Morning session: THERAPY

09:00: B. Wirth, Spinal Muscular atrophy: from gene to therapy

09:45: D. Valle, Evolution as a context for medicine

10:30: Coffee break

11:00: J. Gecz, ARX Spectrum Disorders

11:45: B. Horsthemke, Epigenetics

12:30: Questions from students on morning lectures

13:00: Lunch break

Afternoon session: 14:30 - 18:00

Concurrent Workshops

Friday, May 28th

Morning session:  EPIGENETICS, TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICAL ISSUES

09:00: B. Horsthemke, Epigenetics and disease

09:45: J. Veltman, Copy Number Variation

10:15: A. Read, Ethical Issues

10:45: Coffee break

11:15: General discussion with students as moderators.

13:00: Lunch break

Departure after lunch