| 8/8 Sunday |
| Afternoon | Registration |
| 6:00 pm | DINNER |
| 7:00 - 7:15 pm | Welcome and Introductions |
| 7:15 - 9:30 pm | Molecular Cytogenetics
(David Ledbetter, Chair) |
|
- Joe Gray - Gene dosage analysis with genomic arrays
- Peter Lichter - From molecular cytogenetics to DNA arrays in tumor analysis
- David Ledbetter - Genomic duplications and human genetic disease
- Bernice Morrow - 15 min: Molecular studies of chromosome 22q11 Rearrangement disorders
|
| 9:30 - 11 pm | Social event |
| 8/9 Monday |
| 7:30 am | BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Cardiovascular Genetics
(Edward Rubin, Chair) |
|
- Richard Lifton - Genes affecting blood pressure variability in mammals
- Joseph Yost - Genetic pathways in cardiac development
|
| 10:30 - 11:15 am | Group Photo and Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:30 |
- Lap-Chee Tsui - Cystic fibrosis modifier genes
- Edward Rubin - Sifting the genome for genes effecting triglyceride metabolism
- Harald Funke - 15 min: The gene for Tangier disease
|
| 12:40 pm | LUNCH |
| 6:00 pm | DINNER |
| 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Genomics and Disease
(David Cox, Chair) |
|
- Aravinda Chakravarti - Patterns of human genomic sequence variation
- Deborah Nickerson - Sequence diversity in humans
- David Cox - Single nucleotide variation and human disease
|
| 9:30 - 11 pm | POSTER SESSION I (even-numbered posters) |
| 8/10 Tuesday |
| 7:30 am | BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Developmental Pathways, Malformations and
Cancer
(Max Muenke, Chair) |
|
- Cliff Tabin - Signals patterning the vertebrate limb in the left-right axis during chick development
- Pao-Tien Chuang - Modulation of hedgehog signaling during vertebrate embryogenesis
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
- Max Muenke - Genes involved in holoprosencephaly
- Allen Bale - Drosophila developmental genes and human cancer predisposition
|
| 12:40 pm | LUNCH |
| 4:30 - 5:50 pm | Informal discussion led by Camilla Day, SRA
Mammalian Genetics Study Section, on the
nuts and bolts of NIH research grants |
| 6:00 pm | DINNER |
| 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Gene expression and mutagenesis
(Rudi Balling,Chair) |
|
- Lisa Stubbs - Altered mucin gene expression associated with gastritis and ulcer, lymphoma, and stomach cancer in mutant mice
- Greg Barsh - Forward and reverse genetics of mouse pigment mutations
- Rudi Balling - We need more mutants: Large scale ENU mutagenesis in mice
- Bernhard Herrmann - 15 min: Strategy for isolating novel genes by expression screening
|
| 9:30 - 11 pm | POSTER SESSION II (uneven-numbered posters) |
| 8/11 Wednesday |
| 7:30 am | BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Neurogenetics I
(Robert Nussbaum, Chair) |
|
- Michael Hayden - TBA
- Harry Orr - Pathogenesis of a polyglutamine Disease: SCA1
|
| 10:30 - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 - 12:30 |
- Stephen Warren - Molecular mechanisms of the fragile X phenotype
- Robert Nussbaum - Genetic analysis of Parkinson disease in humans and mice
- Anand Swaroop - 15 min: Transcription factors and Retinal Disease
|
| 12:40 pm | LUNCH |
| 6:00 pm | DINNER |
| 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Neurogenetics II
(Uta Francke, Chair) |
|
- Ulrike Heberlein - Studying drugs of abuse in Drosophila
- Leena Peltonen - Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses:Diseases of lysosomal dysfunction
- Tony Wynshaw-Boris - Modeling neurogenetic diseases in the mouse
- Orly Reiner - 15 min: Molecular mechanism of lissencephaly
|
| 8/12 Thursday |
| 7:30 am | BREAKFAST |
| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Functional and nonsense RNA
(Hal Dietz, Chair) |
|
- Hunt Willard - Chromosomal mechanisms of gene silencing on the X Chromosome
- Jeannie Lee - Tsix - antisense transcript of XIST
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
- Hal Dietz - Nonsense RNA metabolism in health and disease
- Melissa Moore - Pre-mRNA processing: Splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
|
| 12:40 pm | LUNCH |
| 6:00 pm | BANQUET DINNER |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Keynote address |
|
- Sydney Brenner - Inverse Genetics: What evolution teaches us about genomes
|
| 8/13 Friday |
| 7:30 am | BREAKFAST |
| DEPART |
