HGM2006

Satellite Meetings

HUGO Members Meeting

Please note that the 2006 Annual General Assembly of HUGO members will take place in Helsinki during HGM2006. Details of the time and meeting room will be posted here and at the conference.

Joint HGVS/HGNC Meeting

The Human Genome Variation Society and HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee are holding a joint meeting on 31st May in Room 209 of the Helsinki Fair Centre. A key topic of this meeting will be Copy Number Variation (see the HGNC Hot Topics page).

Wednesday 31st May 2006
08:55 -15:30 Room 209 (Registration from 08:30)

Please note places are strictly limited and registration will be on a first-come first-served basis with priority to HUGO/HGVS members. Details on the HGVS/HGNC Helsinki Meeting web site.

Utilising the Human Genome Sequence

One-day workshop open to all. The format of this workshop will be a series of short tutorials with practical sessions to enable participants to gain "hands-on" training in the use of public databases, web-based sequence analysis tools and to review the underlying data. A full colour manual will be given to all registered participants. See http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Info/workshops/hgm2006/ for full details.

Wednesday 31st May 2006
09:00-17:00 Room 206

The 1st International Workshop on Approaches to Single Cell Analysis

"The 1st International Workshop on Approaches to Single Cell Analysis" will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, June 21-22, 2006. The workshop will bring together leading scientists in the field and highlight strategies to investigate the molecular composition of single cells, interactions and dynamics of single molecules, and applications thereof. Organizers are Ulf Landegren, Hideki Kambara, Mathias Uhlén, and Tadashi Matsunaga. Full details can be found at http://www.akademikonferens.uu.se/singlecell2006/

Rosetta Technology Forum 2006: Helsinki

4-5 June, 2006 - Helsinki, Finland

The Rosetta Technology Forum brings together researchers from leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and academic organizations to discuss new approaches to accelerate drug discovery through gene expression, genetic studies, toxicogenomics, and biomarker discovery.

The Rosetta Technology Forum will be held on 4 - 5, June, conveniently scheduled immediately after the Human Genome Organization Annual Meeting (HUGO), also in Helsinki. All conference events will take place at the Helsinki Fair Centre in Helsinki, Finland.

http://www.rosettabio.com/conferences/rtfhelsinki/default.htm