Meeting program : Miami 2009 Winter Symposium

Saturday, January 24
3.00 - 6.30 pm	Registration - Napoleon Ballroom Lobby
6.30 pm	Welcome Reception - Pool Area (Sponsored by Asuragen)

Sunday, January 25
8.30 - 9.30 am	Breakfast
8.30 am	Exhibition opens
8.30 - 9.30 am	Poster Session A
9.30 - 9.50 am	Welcome and Introductions Louis J. Elsas, Claes Wahlestedt, Andrew Marshall
9.50 - 10.40 am	The Feodor Lynen Lecture Chairs: Claes Wahlestedt and Andrew Marshall Neandertal Genomics Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
10.40 - 11.00 am	Coffee Break
11.00 - 1.00 pm	Beyond The Sequence I Chairs: Claes Wahlestedt and Andrew Marshall
	11.00	New Classes of Functional Short RNAs and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Networks Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
	11.40	The Human Genome as an RNA Machine John Mattick The University of Queensland, Australia
	12.20	Human Genome Structural Variation, Disease and Evolution Evan E. Eichler University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
1.00 - 2.00 pm	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 pm	Poster Session A
3.00 - 6.15 pm	Beyond The Sequence II Chairs: Claes Wahlestedt and Svante Pääbo
	3.00	Small Patients, Large Cohorts: Genomic Variation Studies in Pediatric Developmental Disorders Stephen W. Scherer Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, CA
	3.40	A Noncoding Antisense RNA-Protein Information System for Mammalian Stress Response Georges St Laurent Brown University, USA and University of Antioquia, Colombia
	3.55	Moving Epigenetics from Genes to the Genome and from Cancer to Populations Andrew Feinberg Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
	4.35 - 4.55 pm	Coffee Break
	4.55	Exhibition closes
	4.55	Distinct Genetic and Epigenetic Approaches to the Etiology of Autism Independent of Genetic Linkage and Association Arthur L. Beaudet Baylor College of Medicine, USA
	5.35	Towards a Human Reference Epigenome Alex Meissner The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Monday, January 26
8.30 - 9.30 am	Breakfast
8.30 am	Exhibition opens
8.30 - 9.30 am	Poster Session B
9.30 - 10.20 am	DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Chairs: Louis J. Elsas and Myles Axton From Reading to Writing the Genetic Code J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute, USA
10.20 - 12.05 pm	Genome Variation I Chairs: Myles Axton and Richard Gibbs
	10.20	Sequencing Human Genomes for Biology and Medicine Richard Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine, USA
	11.00	The first Korean Genome: Combination of Diploid and Haploid Giga-sequencing Jeong-Sun Seo Seoul National University and Macrogen Inc., Korea
	11.15 - 11.35 am	Coffee Break
	11.35	What we can Learn from Resequencing Large Samples of Humans Andrew G. Clark Cornell University, USA
12.15 - 12.55 pm	Genome Variation II Chairs: Claes Wahlestedt and Margaret Pericak-Vance
	12.15	Genomic Disorders: Mechanisms for Copy-Number Variation (CNV) and Clinical Implementation of High-Resolution Genome Analysis James R. Lupski Baylor College of Medicine, USA
12.55 - 2.00 pm	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 pm	Poster Session B
3.00 - 5.35 pm	Genome Variation II (continued) Chairs: Claes Wahlestedt and Margaret Pericak-Vance
	3.00	Reading Copy Number Variation for Insights into Human Disorders Michael Wigler Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
	3.40	Screening of 1000 Synaptic Genes in Schizophrenia and Autism Patients Julie Gauthier Université of Montréal, CA
	3.55 - 4.15	Coffee Break
	4.15	Exhibition closes
	4.15	Sequence and Structural Variation in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Jonathan L. Haines Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
	4.55	The Role of Rare and Common Variation in Human Disease David B. Goldstein Duke University, USA
6.30 pm	Conference Dinner - Richelieu Room LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Chairs: William J. Whelan and Louis J. Elsas Victor Almon McKusick: A Gene Mapper's Appreciation Aravinda Chakravarti Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Tuesday, January 27
8.30 - 9.30 am	Breakfast
8.30 am	Exhibition opens
8.30 - 9.30 am	Poster Session C
9.30 - 12.15 pm	Genome-Wide Associations and Disease Chairs: Louis J. Elsas and Myles Axton
	9.30	Thinking Big: Lessons Learned from Genome Wide Association Studies in Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity and Related Traits Mark I. McCarthy University of Oxford, UK
	10.10	Expression Quantitative Trait Loci in Alzheimer's Disease Amanda J. Myers University of Miami, USA
	10.25 - 10.55 am	Coffee Break
	10.55	Dissecting the Exquisite Genetic Complexity of Autism Margaret Pericak-Vance University of Miami, USA
	11.35	Interpreting Tumor Genomes Donna G. Albertson University of California San Francisco, USA
12.15 - 2.00 pm	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 pm	Poster Session C
3.00 - 4.55 pm	Emerging technologies for human genome studies Chairs: Andrew Marshall and Arun Malhotra
	3.00	The Advent of Individual Human Genome Sequencing David R. Bentley Illumina Inc., UK and USA
	3.40	Allele-Specific Regulation of Gene Expression by CPG Site Methylation in Primary Leukemic Cell Ann-Christine Syvanen Uppsala University, Sweden
	3.55 - 4.15	Coffee Break
	4.15	Exhibition closes
	4.15	Enabling True Biology with Helicos Single Molecule Sequencing Patrice Milos Helicos BioSciences Corporation, USA
5.30 pm	Wine and Cheese Reception - Richelieu Room (Co-sponsored by Miami Institute for Human Genomics and Nature Genetics)

Wednesday, January 28
8.00 - 9.00 am	Breakfast
9.00 - 9.50 am	SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Chairs: Andrew Marshall and William J. Whelan Open Access Personal Genomes.Org: Medical, Physical, Behaviorial Traits, Pluripotent Stem Cells, VDJ-Omes, & Open Source Sequencing Instruments George M. Church Harvard Medical School, USA
9.50 - 12.15 pm	Towards Therapy Chairs: Andrew Marshall and Joseph D. Rosenblatt
	9.50	How Genomics will Change the Future of Medicine Eric Topol Scripps Translational Science Institute, USA
	10.30	A Functional Genomic Screen to Identify HIV-Dependency Factors Derek M. Dykxhoorn University of Miami, USA
	10.45 - 11.05 pm	Coffee Break
	11.05	From Genes, Two Novel Cardiovascular Therapies Mark E. Gurney deCODE genetics, Inc., USA
	11.45	Phylogenetic Basis for an APOE4-Independent Susceptibility Locus for Alzheimer's Disease Allen D. Roses Duke University and Shiraz Pharmaceuticals, Inc, USA
12.25 - 12.45 pm	Closing Remarks

Meeting program - Miami 2009 Winter Symposium: Interpreting the Human Genome

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