Symposium Sessions
| Sunday 28 Sep 09:00 - 11:00 | 1. Infectious Diseases and Metagenomics |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Todd Taylor (Japan), A Surolia (India) |
| S E Hasnain (India) | |
| David Roos (USA) | |
| Todd Taylor (Japan) | Metagenomics of the human gut microbiome |
| Sunil Ahuja (USA) | |
| 2. Regulatory Variation and Non-coding DNA Sequences | |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Steve Scherer (Canada), M.R.S. Rao (India) |
| Nikolaus Rajewsky (Germany) | |
| Manika Pal-Bhadra (India) | Identification and molecular characterization of novel protein partners of piwi in Drosophila |
| Gil Ast (Israel) | |
| Anindya Dutta (USA) | MicroRNAs and non-micro-short RNAs in control of cell proliferation |
| Shantanu Chowdhury (India) | |
| 3. Structural Proteomics | |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Siddhartha Roy (India), D. Balasubramanian (India) |
| M Vijayan (India) | Structural Proteomics of Mycobacterial Recombination and Repair |
| John Moult (USA) | |
| Joel Sussman (Israel) | |
| Rajesh Gokhale (India) | |
| Monday 29 Sep 15:30 - 17:30 | 4. Cancer and Epigenomics |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Emma Whitelaw (Australia), |
| Sanjeev Galande (India) | The third dimension of gene regulation: It's all in the looping! |
| Edison Liu (Singapore) | |
| Christian Muchardt (France) | HP1 proteins from silencing to activation of inducible promoters |
| Emma Whitelaw (Australia) | |
| 5. New Technologies: Genome Sequencing to Molecular Imaging | |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Sumio Sugano (Japan), KC Gupta (India) |
| Mats Nilsson (Sweden) | Single-cell genotyping and targeted genome sequencing techniques |
| Satayajit Mayor (India) | |
| George Church (USA) | Technologies for Personal Genomics: Exomes, Allele-specific-RNAs, microbiomes, VDJomes |
| Steve Sommer (USA) | |
| 6. Complex Disease Genomics I (Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases) |
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| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: TBA |
| Stephen Ekker (USA) | |
| Balaram Ghosh (India) | A common genetic variation in Inositol polyphosphate 4 phosphatase A (INPP4A) enhances susceptibility to atopic asthma |
| Mark McCarthy (UK) | Common variants influencing type 2 diabetes, body mass index and fasting glucose |
| Phililippe Froguel (UK) | |
| Tuesday 30 Sep 09:00 - 11:00 | 7. Ethics, Culture and Genomics |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Bartha-Maria Knoppers (Canada), N K Ganguly (India) |
| Ishwar Verma (India) | Ethics, Culture and Genomics - An Indian Perspective |
| Darryl Macer (Thailand) | |
| Hans Hilger Ropers (Germany) | |
| Ruth Chadwick (UK) | |
| 8. Population Genetics and Natural Selection in Man | |
| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Richard Villems (Estonia), V Nanjundiah (India) |
| Jaume Bertranpetit (Spain) | |
| Partha Majumder (India) | Signatures of Natural Selection on Genes of the Human Innate Immune System |
| Carlos Bustamante (USA) | |
| Lluis Quintana-Murci (France) | Searching for the footprints of pathogen pressures in the human genome |
| 9. Complex Disease Genomics II (Neuropsychiatric and Ocular Disorders) |
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| Room TBA | Chair/Co-Chairs: Sanjeev Jain (India) |
| Thomas Meitinger (Germany) | |
| B K Thelma (India) | Genetic determinants of Parkinson's disease: Insights from multiple gene analysis |
| John Blangero (USA) | Integrative approaches to the identification of genes involved in brain structure and function |
| Thomas Hudson (Canada) | Genomic Variation and Cancer |
HGM2008 Confirmed Speakers/Chairs
HGM2008 Programme Sessions
Brief Timetable
Programme Subject to Change
The National Organising Committee of HGM2008, the International Scientific Organising Committee, and the HUGO Secretariat are compiling a stimulating and exciting programme of scientific and social events - watch these pages for the latest information.
Please Note: The programme and timetable are provisional at the moment, and are subject to change.
