GeneMappers 2007

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Conference Program in PDF format is available here.

Workshop Program in PDF format is available here.

DAY 1 Wednesday 29 August 2007

1:00pm	Conference Opening
1:10pm	Genomewide Association Studies - Chair Peter Visscher Peter Donnelly
1:50pm	Lon Cardon
2:30pm	Georgia Cheneviz Trench Genome-wide association study of breast cancer – results from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium.
2:45pm	Matthew Brown A Genomewide Non-Synonymous SNP Scan for Susceptibility to Ankylosing Spondylitis – the Wellcome Trust Case-Control Consortium
3:00pm	Nick Martin Genome-wide linkage and association scans for melanoma risk factors
3:15pm	Afternoon tea Poster Session
3:45pm	Family Studies - Current role and recent advances. Chair Simon Foote Dale Nyholt The utility of family-based studies in the era of (potential) genome-wide association studies
4:15pm	Jim Stankovich Making full use of high density SNP data collected on related individuals
4:45pm	Erica McAuley Verification of a bipolar disorder susceptibility locus on chromosome 15q and preliminary analysis of positional candidate genes
5:00pm	Janice Fullerton Genome-wide linkage and two-dimensional interaction analysis of 67 Australian pedigrees reveals complex genetic architecture for bipolar affective disorder
5:15pm	Jonathon Keith An improved model for calculation of identity by descent probabilities for dense SNP data
5:30pm	Jodie Painter The first linkage study to identify genes underlying intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy identifies a novel susceptibility locus
5:45pm	Kathryn Burdon Digenic Inheritance of Apparent Autosomal Dominant Keratoconus in a Large Australian Pedigree
6:00pm	Summary and Comments Lon Cardon
6:30pm	Welcome Reception
7:00pm

DAY 2 Thursday 30 August 2007

	Animal Models - Chair Gethin Thomas
8:30am	Steve Brown Elucidating genetic pathways for chronic otitis media – the utility of mouse models
9:00am	Simon Foote Genetic analysis of murine models of human disease
9:40am	Chris Goodnow Genetic pleiotropy and negative vs positive regulators of immune responses: analysis by chemically induced SNPs in inbred mice
10:15am	Belinda Whittle Establishing a successful mapping strategy for identification of the causal mutation in ENU gene-variant mouse strains
10:30am	Lucy Whitlock Identification of mice carrying ENU-induced suppressor mutations to experimentally induced epilepsy
10:45am	Alan Wilton Use of homozygosity testing to detect disease genes in dogs breeds
11:00am	Morning tea Poster Session
11:30am	Biobanks and Population Genetic Studies - Chair Sue Forrest Lyle Palmer Biobanks: Next steps in complex disease discovery Peter Schofield Genetic Repositories Australia (GRA)
12:15pm	Russell Thompson The genetic causes of renal disease in an Australian Aboriginal population
12:30pm	Naomi Way Factors affecting the value of genomic profiling for disease risk based on genome-wide association studies
12:45pm	Lunch Poster Session
1:30pm	New Technologies - Chair Grant Montgomery Sue Forrest Mathias Erlich Epigenetic Marker Discovery and Validation
2:30pm	Daixing Zhou Advancing Genome Analysis One Billion Bases at a Time
3:00pm	TBA
3:15pm	Daryl Irwin Genotyping copy number variants – 1:2 ? 2:4
3:45pm	Stuart MacGregor Highly cost efficient genome wide association studies using DNA pools and dense SNP arrays
4:00pm	Afternoon tea Poster Session
4:30pm	Twins and Association Studies - Chair John Hopper
4:45pm	Peter Visscher Twins in Genetics
5:00pm	Beben Benjamin Genome-wide linkage and association analyses of body height from a large sample of Australian twin families
5:15pm	Penelope Lind DCDC2 is associated with normal variation in reading and spelling ability in a large Australian population sample
5:30pm	Jonathon Hansen Genetic modelling and linkage analysis of the perceived intensity of sweeteners
5:45pm	Vanessa Hayes Genetic determinants of mammographic density
6:00pm	Close of Day
7:00pm	Conference Dinner

DAY 3 Friday 31 August 2007

	Genomics - Chair Colleen Nelson
8:30am	Sean Grimmond Towards Sequencing the Mammalian Transcriptome in toto.
9:00am	Joanne Curran Large scale transcriptional profiling for the identification of genes influencing common complex diseases
9:15am	Jac Charlesworth Transcriptomic epidemiology of smoking
9:30am	Dimitar Azmanov Waste of genomic space or not: functional analysis and evolution of a novel 72bp VNTR
9:45am	Joanna Cobb Finding functional variants within non-coding DNA: baldness and the androgen receptor
10:00am	Morning tea Poster Session
10:30am	Association Studies - Chair Georgia Chevenix-Trench
10:45am	Bill Hill Multi-locus identity by descent: prediction and application to linkage disequilibrium and gene mapping
11:00am	John Hopper Case-control-family study of a common polymorphism reveals that “high-risk” mutations may predispose to disease: relevance to association studies
11:15am	Brian Browning Rapid and accurate haplotype phasing and missing data inference for whole genome association studies using localized haplotype clustering
11:30am	John Sved Using linkage disequilibrium to estimate effective separation times for human populations
11:45am	Lyle Gurrin Resequencing candidate genes of iron metabolism and the relationship between SNP or haplotype dosage and iron phenotype in individuals at high and low risk of iron overload
12:00pm	Emma Duncan A Phase 1 Genomewide Association Study in Osteoporosis.
12:15pm	Cara Buust Epithelial sodium channel g-subunit polymorphisms are associated with blood pressure in the Victorian Family Heart Study and in Utah pedigrees
12:30pm	Allan McRae Power and SNP Tagging in Whole Mitochondrial Genome Association Studies
12:45pm	Peter Donnelly Summary and Comments
1:00pm	Matthew Brown Wrap up and Close of meeting
1:15pm	Lunch