Agenda
2012 Nature/Institute for Genomic Medicine Symposium
Sunday, November 4, 2012
7:45 am Registration Opens
8:15 am Welcome Remarks
8:30 am Session I: Cancer Genomics
Joe Gray (UC Berkeley) -- "Understanding and translating the breast cancer genome"
Mike Stratton (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) -- "Evolution of the Cancer Genome"
Richard Gilbertson (St. Judes Children's) -- "Organism-wide mapping of stem cells and cancer origins"
David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz) -- "The UCSC Cancer Genomics Hub"
10:45 am Session II: Gene & Cell Therapies
Jean Bennett (University of Pennsylvania) -- "Gene augmentation therapy for retinal dystrophies: A collaboration of retina and brain"
Doug Turnbull (University of Newcastle) -- "Preventing Mitochondrial DNA Disease"
Yang Xu (UCSD) -- "Genomic Stability of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells"
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (Salk Institute) -- "Stem cells as a promising vehicle for gene-therapy"
2:00 pm Session III: Complex Human Traits
Jonathan Sebat (UCSD) -- "Whole genome sequencing in Autism identifies hotspots for de novo germline mutation"
Inês Barroso (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) -- "Genetic Approaches to Metabolic Disease -Extreme Phenotypes and Common Disease"
Mark Daly (Broad) -- "Progress in Human Genetics:GWAS and Beyond"
3:45 pm Keynote Lecture: Dr. Eric Green, Director, NHGRI "The Human Genomics Landscape: Bringing Genomic Medicine into Focus"
Monday, November 5, 2012
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Session IV: Personalized Genomics for Implementation of Genetic Information
Xu Anlong (Sun Yat-sen University) -- "Genome wide dynamics of 3' UTRs during development and diseases"
Vanessa Hayes (J. Craig Venter Institute) -- "Personal Genomes from Africa"
Mike Snyder (Stanford) -- "Adventures In Personal Genomics and Whole Omics Profiling Abstract"
George Church (Harvard) -- "Genomes for all. Now. Technology & Actionability"
Joseph Gleeson (UCSD) -- "Exome sequencing in Neurodevelopmental Diseases"
11:30 am Closing Remarks