Program

HGV2008 Agenda

October 15-17, 2008, Old Mill Inn, Toronto

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Overview
Stephen Scherer (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
9:15-11:10

Session #1

Genome Variation and Data Integration
Session Clair: Xavier Estivill (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain)
9:15-9:40 Lars Feuk (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
9:40-10:05 James Sikela (University of Colorado-Denver, USA)
10:05-10:30 Steven McCarroll (Broad Institute, Boston USA)
10:30-10:50 Paul O'Reilly (Imperial College London, UK)
10:50-11:10 Itsik Pe'er (Columbia University, USA)
11:10-12:30 Lunch
12:30-2:25

Session #2

Functional Variability: In Search of Plausibility
Session Chair: Thomas Hudson (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto)
12:30-12:55 Edison Liu (Genome Institute of Singapore)
12:55-1:20 Mary Relling (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
1:20-1:45 Eddie Rubin (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Joint Genome Institute, USA)
1:45-2:05 Jonathan Mudge (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
2:05-2:25 Teri Manolio (Human Genome Research Institute, USA)
2:25-3:05 Break, Posters/Vendors
3:05-5:00

Session #3

Comparative Genomics and Populations
Session Chair: Anthony Brookes (University of Leicester, UK)
3:05-3:30 Len Pennacchio (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Joint Genome Institute, USA)
3:30-3:55 Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania-School of Medicine, USA)
3:55-4:20 Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (Uppsala University, Sweden)
4:20-4:40 Tuuli Lappalainen (Finnish Genome Center, University of Helsinki, Finland)
4:40-5:00 Caleb Webber (Oxford University, UK)
5:00-7:00 Posters/Vendors Social
7:30 Dinner, The Old Mill Inn
Thursday, October 16, 2008
7:00-8:00 Breakfast
8:00-10:00

Session #4

Genome-wide Studies and Disease Susceptibility
Session Chair: Gonçalo Abecasis (University of Michigan, USA)
8:00-8:25 Stephen Channock (National Cancer Institute, USA)
8:25-8:50 Joel Hirschhorn (Children's Hospital, Boston)
8:50-9:15 Mark McCarthy (University of Oxford, UK)
9:15-9:40 John Rioux (Montreal Heart Institute, Canada)
9:40-10:00 Ariel Darvasi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
10:00-10:40 Break, Posters/Vendors
10:40-12:15

Session #5

Structural Variants, SNPs and Phenotypes
Session Chair: Stephen Chanock (National Cancer Institute, USA)
10:40-11:05 Nigel Carter (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
11:05-11:30 David Malkin (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)
11:30-11:55 Pauline Ng (J. Craig Venter Institute)
11:55-12:15 Meredith Yeager (SAIC/NCI, USA)
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:20

Keynote

Introduction by Anthony Brookes (University of Leicester, UK)
Genome Evolution
Svante Pääbo (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
2:20-3:30

Session #6

Genome Variation: Applications and Ethics
Session Chair: Michael Morgan (Genome Canada, Ottawa)
2:20-2:45 David Cox (Pfizer Inc., USA)
2:45-3:10 Tim Caulfield (Health Law Institute, University of Alberta, Canada)
3:10-3:30 Billie-Jo Hardy (McLaughlin Rotman Centre, University of Toronto, Canada)
3:30-5:30 Posters/Vendors Social
7:00-9:00 Off Site Public Symposium
Personalized Medicine: are we there yet?”  + Reception
Isabel-Bader Theatre, University of Toronto Download poster »»
Friday, October 17, 2008
7:00-8:00 Breakfast
8:00-10:00

Session #7

Genome Variation Technologies, Tools, and Bioinformatics
Session Chair: Johanna Rommens (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
8:00-8:25 Laura Almasy (Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, USA)
8:25-8:50 Anthony Brookes (University of Leicester, UK)
8:50-9:15 Pui Kwok (UCSF, USA)
9:15-9:40 Elaine Mardis (Washington University-St. Louis, USA)
9:40-10:00 Han Cao (Bionanomatrix, USA)
10:00-10:40 Break, Vendors
10:40-1:00

Session #8

Population Genetics and Genomics
Session Chair: Pui Kwok (UCSF, USA)
10:40-11:05 Michael Egholm (Roche 454, USA)
11:05-11:30 Gonçalo Abecasis (University of Michigan, USA)
11:30-11:55 Xavier Estivill (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain)
11:55-12:20 Esteban Parra (University of Toronto, Canada)
12:20-12:40 Noah Zaitlen (University of California-San Diego, USA)
12:40-1:00 Dalila Pinto (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
1:00-2:00 Lunch
Farewell/Thank you (Steve Scherer)
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Day outings organized (eg. Niagara Falls) - all costs to participant