Program
EMBO Lecture
- Peer Bork, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany: Quantitative phylogenetic assessment of microbial communities in diverse environments.
Keynote Lecture
- Svante Pääbo, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany: Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA.
Keynote Lecture
- Claire M Fraser-Liggett, Institute of Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Human microbial metagenomics.
Keynote Lecture
- Niels Tommerup, Wilhelm Johannsen Centre, University of Copenhagen: Complexity of human genome.
Ancient genomes - sequencing of fossils from extinct species
- Eske Willerslev, Department of Biology, Evolutionary Biology, University of Copenhagen: Retrieval of ancient DNA from fossil remains.
Metagenomics - sequencing of entire ecosystems such as seawater, soil, etc.
- Thomas Sicheritz Pontén, CBS, Technical University of Denmark: Environmental sequencing of the polar seas and the human gut.
Cancer genomics - sequencing of the genetic material in tumors and cancer tissue
- Michael R. Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK: Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci.
- Tobias Sjöblom, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Sweden: Systematic analyses of the cancer genome lessons learned from sequencing most of the annotated human protein-coding genes.
Genetic networks – transcriptional regulation
- Albin Sandelin, BRIC, Biocenter, University of Copenhagen: Computational studies on transcriptomes.
- Henk Stunnenberg, Department of Molecular Biology, NCMLS, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands: ChIP-sequencing in epigenetics and analysis of transcription factor binding sites.
Comparative genomics – comparing whole genomes
- Christa Schleper, Institute of Biology, Bergen University, Norway: Stress response in hyperthermophilic archae.
- Roger A. Garrett, Department of Molecular Biology, Copenhagen University, Denmark: Evolutionary genomics of archaea: unique genomes in the third domain of life.
Genome sequencing
- Speaker to be announced, 23andme.com (Illumina & Google): Get your personal genome for 1000$!
- Speaker to be announced, deCODE genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland: Multifactorial disease genes.
Genetic variation – genetic variation between individuals, SNPs.
- Speaker to be announced, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK: Human genetic variation.
- Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics, Beijing, China: Genetic variation in patients with obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
- Karsten Kristiansen, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark: Functional characterization of gene variants in obesity, diabetes and hypertension.
Registration:
Registration fee: DSBMB or DBS Members 3000 Kr. Non-members 3500 Kr. Reduced fee for Ph.D. and Master Students: DSBMB or DSB Members 1500 Kr. Non-members: 2000 Kr. One-day participants: 800 Kr. Number of participants limited to 100. Deadline for registration and abstracts: October 1, 2008.
Vendor exhibition contact and secretariat
Vivian Juhl, Danish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Glostrup Hospital, 2600 Glostrup, Tlf.: 4323 2458, Fax: 4323 3929, e-mail: vijb@glo.regionh.dk |
