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Plenary Sessions

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 - 19:301. 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


On-Line Abstracts

On-line Abstracts

HGM2008 Programme Sessions

Brief Timetable

Brief Timetable

HGM2008 Confirmed Speakers/Chairs

Programme Subject to Change

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