August 10, 1997
Molecular Cytogenetics
Organizer and Chair: Uta Francke, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Thomas Cremer, Institut fuer Anthropologie und Humangenetik Universitaet Muenchen - :3D architecture of human chromosome territories"
- Dr. Peter Lichter, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum - "Analysis of genome organization in the nucleus: intrachromosomal DNA arrangement and interchromosomal compartments"
- Rudolph Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute - "X chromosome inactivation in Mouse"
- Jeanne B. Lawrence, Univ. Mass. Med. Center - "Distinct spacial arrangements of genes and RNAs relative to intranuclear compartments"
August 11, 1997
Neurogenetics
Session Chair: Bob Nussbaum
- Huda Zoghbi, Baylor College of Medicine - "Biochemical and genetic studies to understand the pathogenesis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1"
- Shoji Tsuji, Niigata University - "Molecular genetics of DRPLA and SCA2, and molecular mechanisms of odegeneration caused by expanded CAG repeats"
- Bob Korneluk, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - " Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins (IAPs): A central role in neuroprotection. "
- Don Nicholson, Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research - "Killer proteases: Role of caspases (ICE/CED-3 like cysteine proteases) in apoptotic cell suicide"
- Stephen Warren, Emory University School of Medicine - "Fragile X Syndrome"
- Miriam Meisler
- Brian Chadwick
Session Chair: Michael R. Hayden, University of British Columbia
- Michael Hayden - "Toward the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington disease"
- Peter St. George-Hyslop, University of Toronto - "Genetics and Biology of the Presenilins"
- Bob Nussbaum - "Genetics of Parkinson's Disease"
- Stylianos Antonarakis, University of Geneva Medical School - "A dodecamer repeat expansion in the 5' flanking region of the cystatin B gene is the most common cause of progressive myoclonus epilepsy"
August 12, 1997
Human and Mouse Development
Organizer and Chair: Lap-Chee Tsui, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
- Maximilian Muenke, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - "Molecular genetics of holoprosencephaly, the most common anomaly of the dedeveloping brain in humans"
- Michael Cooper, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - "Hedgehog, cholesterol and holoprosencephaly"
- Ethylin Wang Jabs, Johns Hopkins University - "Cranofacial development: Saethe-Chotzen syndrome and TWIST"
- Edward M. Rubin, MD, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - "From sequence to function: the use of engineered mice in gene discovery"
- R. M. Winter, Institute of Child Health, London - "Mouse and human dysmorphology database"
- Elizabeth Fisher
- Tamar Paperna
- Rachael Ritchie, Children's Hospital, Boston - "Evidence for a new imprinted region of chromosome 15'"
- Stephen Scherer, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto - "Developmental diseases of haploinsufficiency on human chromosome 7"
- Leslie Biesecker, NHGRI/NIH - "The spectrum of GLI3 mutations in Pallister-Hall and Greig syndromes"
August 13, 1997
Neurogenetics (cont.)
Chair: Michael Hayden
- George Ebers - "Genetic and environmental basis of multiple sclerosis susceptibility"
- Leena Peltonen - "Search for MS genes in the genetically isolated poulation of Finland"
Cancer Genetics
Organizer and Chair: Francis Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
- Francis Collins - "Positional cloning of the MEN1 gene"
- David Livingston - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - "Functional analysis of the BRCA1 gene product"
- Bonnie King
- Elizabeth Henske
- Mary Claire King, University of Washington - "Genetic analysis of breast and ovarian cancer"
- Patrice J. Morin, Johns Hopkins Oncology Cente - "APC and beta-catenin mutations in colon cancer initiation"
- George Mulligan, MIT Center for Cancer Research - "Cell cycle and retinoblastoma gene family"
- Ramon Parsons
August 14, 1997
DNA Repair
Organizer and Chair: Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, NHGRI/NIH
- Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, NHGRI/NIH - "Ataxia-telangiectasia: understanding the pleiotopic actions of Atm by modeling in the mouse."
- Nic Lakin
- Gloria C. Li, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - "Role of Ku protein in DNA repair and V(D)J recombination"
- Dirk Bootsma, Erasmus University, Rotterdam - "Nucleotide excision repair syndromes, xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome, and Trichothiodystrophy"
- Markus Grompe, Oregon Health Science University - "Analysis of the Fanconi anemia C knockout mouse"
- Colin Campbell
August 14, 1997
Distinguished Speaker
- Leland Hartwell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center - "Using yeast genetics to study cancer"
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