Symposium
June 9, 2009
- Registration
- 18.00 Welcome reception at Oslo's City Hall
June 10, 2009
9.00 Welcome by the State Secretary, Åsa Elvik, the Director of the Norwegian Research Council, Arvid Halen, and Finn Wisløff Dean of the Medical Faculty
Session 1: Genetics and Imaging
• 9.45 Imaging and association studies for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Agneta Norberg (SWEDEN)
• 10.25 Structural MRI and genetics: a bridge from molecule to behaviour Richard Frackowiak (UK)
COFFEE BREAK
Session 2: 1000 genomes and beyond
• 11.10 Genome wide profiles of common diseases. Samuli Ripatti (FINLAND)
• 14.20 Finding disease-related genes in other species. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (SWEDEN/USA)
LUNCH
** ScanBalt meeting**
Session 3: Applications of Emerging Technologies (in parallel with the ScanBalt meeting)
• 15.15 Brain functional reorganisation in disorders of motor control using PET-imaging. David Brooks (UK)
• 15.55 The impact of high-throughput sequencing on human genetics. Robert Lyle (NORWAY)
• 16.40 Two-photon optical imaging - Single molecule tracking coupled to nanotechnology/quantum dots. Daniel Choquet (FRANCE)
• 17.20 Allele-specific regulation of gene expression by DNA methylation in primary leukemic cells.Ann-Christine Syvänen (SWEDEN)
• 18.10 Genetic Structure of Europeans - a view from the North-East. Andres Metspalu (ESTONIA)
June 11, 2009
8.30 Keynote Lecture: Genomics research guiding therapy and supporting biobanking, Gert-Jan B. van Ommen (THE NETHERLANDS)
Session 4: Omics and Imaging to study mechanisms underlying disease – part 1
• 9.10 Cancer genetics and systems biology. Olli Kallioniemi (FINLAND)
COFFEE BREAK
• 10.00 Proteomic studies in human diseases. Lennart Martens (UK)
• 10.40 Novel strategies of immune suppression in stroke. Andreas Meisel (GERMANY)
Session 5: Databases and bioinformatics
• 11.20 New advances in biostatistical analyses of genome wide data. Juni Palmgren (SWEDEN)
LUNCH
• 13.00 New tools of bioinformatics. Janet Thornton (UK)
• 13.40 Genotyping databases and data archiving. Paul Flicek (UK)
COFFEE BREAK
Session 6: presentation of European platforms – part 1: EMBL and Nordic Nodes for Molecular Medicine
• 14.30 EMBO PLENARY LECTURE EMBL headquarters. Iain Mattaj (GERMANY)
• 15.10 Finland: Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland. Olli Kallioniemi (FINLAND)
• 15.50 Norway: Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), University of Oslo Kjetil Taskén (NORWAY)
• 16.30 Sweden: Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University Bernt Eric Uhlin (SWEDEN)
• 9.10 European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure in Medicine (EATRIS). Anita Aperia (SWEDEN)
Session 7: poster session
DINNER
Session 8: European platforms – part 2: ESFRI European Research Infrastructure
• 9.00 Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI). Kurt Zatloukal (AUSTRIA)
• 9.40 European Life-science Infrastructure for Biological Information (ELIXIR). Janet Thornton (UK)
Session 11: Tools for the study of epigenetic control of genome function
• 11.10 Deciphering cancer epigenetics. Henk Stunnenberg (THE NETHERLANDS)
• 11.50 Sequencing and transcriptomics. Johan den Dunnen (THE NETHERLANDS)
LUNCH