Wissenschaftliches Programm - Vorläufige Programmübersicht

Symposia 1-3
Thursday, 17.03.2011
13:00 – 14:30

Symposium 1
Human Evolution
Chairs: Gerd Utermann, Reiner Siebert

James P. Noonan
Gene regulation and the origins of human biological uniqueness

Johannes Krause
What makes us human: insights from the Neandertal genome

Lluis Quintana-Murci
Human evolutionary genetics of infection

Symposium 2
New Frontiers in Clinical Genetics
Chairs: Kerstin Kutsche, Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach

Karen W. Gripp
The Rasopathies: distinct disorders related by dysregulation of the Ras/MAPK signalling pathway

Andrew Wilkie
Old men and selfish spermatogonia – how much do they contribute to the mutation burden?

Han Brunner
How next generation sequencing changes the practice of clinical genetics

Symposium 3
Genome Structure and Long-range Gene Regulation
Chairs: Thomas Langmann, Jürgen Kohlhase

Duncan Odom
The evolution of transcriptional regulation in mammals

David Fitzpatrick
Disruption of long-range cis-regulatory elements as a cause of developmental genetic disease in humans

Ewan Birney
Chromatin signatures and heredity

Symposia 4-6
Friday, 18.03.2011
09:00 – 10:30

Symposium 4
Understanding Complex Diseases
Chairs: Markus Nöthen, Michael Bonin

Stuart H. Ralston
Genetics of bone disease

Richard S. Houlston
Architecture of inherited susceptibility to common cancer

Francesca Capon
Genetics of psoriasis

Symposium 5
Small RNA-World (microRNAs)
Chairs: Wolfgang Berger, Michael Speicher

Gunther Meister
Introduction to miRNAs

Joanne Weidhaas (angefragt)
miRNAs in cancer

Miguel Angel Moreno Pelayo
miR96, the first MicroRNA implicated in a monogenic Mendelian disorder

Symposium 6
Retinal Degeneration: a Paradigm for Genetic Disease and Treatment
Chairs: Andreas Gal, Bernhard Weber

Bo Chang
Mouse models of genetic eye diseases

Stephen Daiger
Finding genes and mutations causing retinitis pigmentosa

Robin Ali
Gene therapy for inherited retinal dystrophies

Selected Presentations und Workshops

Fort- und Weiterbildung (EDU 1-4)

EDU 1
N.N.

EDU 2
Extremitätenfehlbildungen
Jürgen Kohlhase (Freiburg), Peter Meinecke (Hamburg)

EDU 3
Der (un)gelöste Fall
Dagmar Wieczorek (Essen), Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach (Lübeck)

EDU 4
Zukunft der prädiktiven Diagnostik
Peter Propping (Bonn), N.N.

Qualitätssicherung in der Humangenetik (QW 1-4)

QW 1 Zytogenetik
Moderation: Karsten R. Held (Hamburg), Bernd Eiben (Essen)

QW 2 Tumorzytogenetik
Moderation: Christa Fonatsch (Wien), Reiner Siebert (Kiel), Harald Rieder (Düsseldorf)

QW 3 Genetische Beratung
Moderation: Wolfram Henn (Homburg/Saar), Dieter Schäfer (Frankfurt/M.)

QW 4 Molekulargenetik
Moderation: Clemens Müller-Reible (Würzburg)