Confirmed Speakers and Chairs
Confirmed Speakers
Gil Ast (Israel)
Anuradha Acharya (India)
M K Bhan (India)
Swapan Bhattacharya (India)
Manika Bhadra (India)
Jaume Bertranpetit (Spain)
John Blangero (USA)
Peer Bork (Germany)
Samir Bramachari (India)
Paul Burton (UK)
Carlos Bustamante (USA)
Charles Cantor (USA)
Howard Cash (USA)
Ruth Chadwick (UK)
Aravinda Chakravarti (USA)
Purnendu Chatterjee* (USA)
George Church (USA)
Debasis Dash (India)
Evan Eichler (USA)
Steve Ekker (USA)
Phililippe Froguel (UK)
Sanjeev Galande (India)
Takashi Gojobori (Japan)
Rajesh Gokhale (India)
Balaram Ghosh (India)
William Haseltine (USA)
S E Hasnain (India)
Leroy Hood (USA)
Tom Hudson (Canada)
Gerado Jimenez-Sanchez (Mexico)
Jay Keasling (USA)
Larry Kedes (USA)
Alexander Kel (Germany)
Hiroaki Kitano (Japan)
Bartha-Maria Knoppers (Canada)
Edison Liu (Singapore)
Mark McCarthy (UK)
Darryl Macer (UNESCO)
Donna Maglott (USA)
Partha Majumder (India)
Satayajit Mayor (India)
Kiran Mazumder-Shaw* (India)
Thomas Meitinger (Germany)
John Moult (USA)
Christian Muchardt (France)
Mitali Mukerji (India)
Lluis Quintana-Murci (France)
Mats Nilsson (Sweden)
Leena Peltonen (Finland)
Sue Povey (UK)
Nikolaus Rajewsky (Germany)
Kanury Rao (India)
David Roos (USA)
Hans Hilger Ropers (Germany)
Mark Seielstad (Singapore)
Lalji Singh (India)
Michael Snyder (USA)
Steve Sommer (USA)
Joel Sussman (Israel)
B K Thelma (India)
Veronica van Heyningen (UK)
Ishwar Verma (India)
M Vijayan (India)
Jun Wang (China)
Emma Whitelaw (Australia)
Confirmed Chairpersons
Chandrasekaran Adithan (India)
Anuranjan Anand (India)
Prabhat Arya (Canada)
Manju Bansal (India)
Uptal Bhadra (India)
M K Bhan (India)
PM Bhargava (India)
V Brahmachari (India)
Anthony Brookes (UK)
Howard Cann (France)
Aravinda Chakravarti (USA)
Kathryn Cheah (Hong Kong)
Richard Cotton (Australia)
Anindya Dutta (USA)
Burton Dickey (USA)
Stephen Ekker (USA)
L Figuera (Mexico)
N K Ganguly (India)
Rajesh Gokhale (India)
J Gowrishankar (India)
K C Gupta (India)
Saman Habib (India)
S E Hasnain (India)
Sanjeev Jain (India)
James Kennedy (Canada)
Elza Khusnutdinova (Russia)
Bartha-Maria Knoppers (Canada)
Ashok Kolaskar (India)
SC Lakhotia (India)
Doron Lancet (Israel)
Edison Liu (Singapore)
Andrey Mironov (Russia)
V Nanjundiah (India)
Mats Nilsson (Sweden)
Carmecita Padilla (Philippines)
Akhilesh Pandey (USA/India)
S Ramachandran (India)
M.R.S. Rao (India)
Kunal Ray (India)
Hans Hilger Ropers (Germany)
Siddhartha Roy (India)
Lai Poh San (Singapore)
Steve Scherer (Canada)
Shantanu Sengupta (India)
Akhteruzzaman Sharif (Bangladesh)
Lalji Singh (India)
Michael Snyder (USA)
Sumio Sugano (Japan)
A Surolia (India)
Todd Taylor (Japan)
K Thangaraj (India)
Jean Thierry-Mieg (USA)
K Vijayraghavan (India)
Emma Whitelaw (Australia)
Richard Villems (Estonia)
Huan Ming Yang (China)
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.
