HGM2006

Plenaries

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Wednesday 31st May - 17:15-19:15

I. Genomic Signatures of Evolution

Chair/Co-Chairs: Ulf Pettersson (Sweden), Yoshiyuki Sakaki (Japan)
Speakers:
Gil McVean (USA), The signatures of natural selection in the HapMap data
Adrian Hill (UK), Infectious Disease Resistance Alleles: Scars of Our Evolution
Andy Clark (USA), Signatures of natural selection in the human genome
Kari Stefansson (Iceland), Genetics of Common Diseases: Signatures of Selection

Thursday 1st June - 08:00-10:00

II. Plagues and Obsessions of Modern Societies

Chair/Co-Chairs: Leena Peltonen (Finland)
Speakers:
Mary-Claire King (USA), The Challenge of Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer for Modern Women
Carol Prescott (USA), Alcoholism: From Genotypes to Genes (and Back Again)
Christine van Broeckhoven (Belgium), Molecular integration of CNS neurodegenerative dementias
Mark McCarthy (UK), Sweet dreams? Finding genes for type 2 diabetes

Friday 2nd June - 08:30-10:30

III. Large Population Studies

Chair/Co-Chairs: Bill Ollier (UK) Introduction
Speakers:
Elio Riboli (UK), The EPIC consortium on the role of lifestyle, environment and genetics in chronic disease aetiology
Alun Evans (UK), MORGAM: An International Project Pooling Cohort Studies of Cardiovascular Disease
Joe Terwilliger (USA), What is the best study design?
Bartha Knoppers (Canada), Barriers and Tools to the Present and Future of Population Genetics

Saturday 3rd June - 08:30-10:30

IV. In Depth Analysis of the Human Genome

Chair/Co-Chairs: Lon Cardon (UK) Introduction A, Steve Scherer (Canada) Introduction B
Speakers:
David Schwarz (USA), Human Genome Structural Variation Discerned by Single Molecule Analysis
Evan Eichler (USA), Human Genome Structural Variation
Tom Hudson (Canada), Influence of Human Genome Polymorphism on Gene Expression
John Blangero (USA), The identification of human quantitative trait loci