Plenary Presentations
Saturday 27 Sep
16:45 - 17:25 | HUGO 20th Anniversary Lecture |
| Hall 3 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Samir K Brahmachari(India), Howard Cann (France) |
| Charles Cantor (USA) | Genomics: 20 Years Ago and 20 Years From Now |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | 1. Genomics and the Future of Medicine |
| Hall 3 | Chair/Co-Chairs: M K Bhan (India), Aravinda Chakravarti (USA) |
| Veronica van Heyningen (UK) | From disease genes to biology, function and therapy |
| Aravinda Chakravarti (USA) | Genetics as the Basic Science of Medicine: But what of its practice? |
| Jay Keasling (USA) | Synthetic Biology in Pursuit of Low-Cost, Effective, Anti-Malarial Drugs |
Sunday 28 Sep
11:30 - 13:30 | Special Plenary: Genetic Landscape of Asia |
| Hall 3 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Huan Ming Yang (China), Howard Cann (France) |
| Lalji Singh (India) | Mapping Human Genetic History in Asia |
| Mark Seielstad (Singapore) | Mapping Human Genetic History in Asia |
| Jun Wang (China) | The first sequenced Asian genome |
| Mitali Mukerji (India) | The Indian Genome Variation Project: Clues and Cues for pharmaco-genomics and disease association studies |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | 2. Landscape of Genomic Variation |
| Hall 3 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Michael Snyder (USA), Lalji Singh (India) |
| Evan Eichler (USA) | Human Genome Structural Variation, Disease and Evolution |
| Michael Snyder (USA) | Extensive structural variation in the human genome Revealed by Paired End Sequencing |
Monday 29 Sep
11:30 - 13:30 | 3. Genome Informatics to Genome Biology |
| Hall 3 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Doron Lancet (Israel), Ashok Kolaskar (India) |
| Takashi Gojobori (Japan) | Sequencing Revolution and Human Genome Network |
| Peer Bork (Germany) | From protein networks to headache and environment |
| Samir Bramachari (India) | Deciphering Biological Function from Genome Variation |
Tuesday 30 Sep
15:00 - 17:00 | 4. Genome Functions and Systems Biology |
| Hall 3 | Chair/Co-Chairs: Edison Liu (Singapore), PM Bhargava (India) |
| Larry Kedes (USA) | The $10 Million Dollar Archon X PRIZE in Genomics |
| Hiroaki Kitano (Japan) | A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design |
| Kanury Rao (India) | Information processing by the intracellular signaling network |
| Leroy Hood (USA) | Systems Medicine, Transformational Technologies and the Emergence of Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Participatory (P4) Medicine |
Please Note: The programme and timetable may be subject to change.
