HGM2008 Brief Timetable

Saturday 27 September
  09:00 - 19:00 Registration
  16:00 - 16:45 Opening Ceremony
  16:45 - 17:25 HUGO 20th Anniversary Lecture
  17:30 - 19:30 Plenary I: Genomics and the Future of Medicine
  19:30 - 19:45 Inauguration of Exhibition
  19:45 - 20:45 Welcome Reception

Sunday 28 September
  08:00 - 13:30 Poster Setup
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 1: Infectious Diseases and Metagenomics
                Symposium 2: Regulatory Variation and Non-coding DNA Sequences
                Symposium 3: Structural Proteomics
  11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  11:30 - 13:30 Special Plenary: Genetic Landscape of Asia
  13:30 - 15:00 Lunch, Posters, Exhibition, Company Events
  14:45 - 15:30 HUGO Members' Meeting
  15:30 - 17:30 Workshop 1: Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics
                Workshop 2: Single Gene Disorders
                Workshop 3: Genome Variation, Diversity and Evolution
                Workshop 4: Genomics of Microbial Pathogens and Host-Pathogen Interactions
                Workshop 5: Disease Proteomics
  17:30 - 18:00 Coffee, Posters
  18:00 - 19:30 Plenary II: Landscape of Genomic Variation
  19:30 - 20:30 Springer Cocktail Reception and Posters

Monday 29th September
  08:00 - 09:00 Company Events
  09:00 - 11:00 Workshop 6: Computational Biology and Structural Proteomics
                Workshop 7: Genomics of Complex Disorders I
                Workshop 8: Epigenomics
                Workshop 9: Pharmacogenomics and Toxicogenomics
                Workshop 10: Genes, Chromosomes and Disease
  11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  11:30 - 13:30 Plenary III: Genome Informatics to Genome Biology
  13:30 - 15:00 Lunch, Posters, Exhibition, Company Events, 'Meet the Editor'
  14:30 - 15:30 Panel Discussion I: Integrative Genomics: Consortia Networks
  15:30 - 17:30 Symposium 4: Cancer and Epigenomics
                Symposium 5: New Technologies: Genome Sequencing to Molecular Imaging
                Symposium 6: Complex Disease Genomics-I
                             (Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases)
  18:15 - 22:00 Cultural event and Conference Dinner

Tuesday 30th September
  08:00 - 09:00 Panel Discussion II: Locus Specific Databases, Biobanks
  09:00 - 11:00 Symposium 7: Ethics, Culture and Genomics
                Symposium 8: Population Genetics and Natural Selection in Man
                Symposium 9: Complex Disease Genomics-II
                             (Neuropsychiatric and Ocular Disorders)
  11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  11:30 - 13:30 Workshop 11: Technology Developments and Applications
                Workshop 12: Genomics of Complex Disorders II
                Workshop 13: Micro RNA and Non-Coding DNA and Repeats
                Workshop 14: Genomics of Model Organisms
                Workshop 15: Chemical Genomics and Molecular Medicine
  13:30 - 15:00 Lunch, Posters, Exhibition
  13:30 - 15:00 Business of 'omics' and New Biology
  15:00 - 17:00 Plenary IV: Genome Functions and Systems Biology
  17:00 - 17:30 Closing Ceremony and Poster Prizes