Genetics and Genomics of Infectious Diseases
Singapore - This conference will engage basic and clinical scientists, including human geneticists, genome scientists, computational biologists, and experts in pathogenic microbial agents to chart the effects of genomics on questions in global infectious disease management.
Classical and emerging infectious diseases, viral pandemics, and drug-resistant pathogens remain challenges to human health. However, contemporary advances in genetics and genomic technologies provide new approaches to understanding and combating these diseases. The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) are partnering with Nature Publishing Group (NPG) to organize an international conference to discuss how the genomes, unique biologies, and interactions of both host and pathogen are being revealed using novel genomic technologies, and how this information can and will translate into disease management and therapies. This conference will engage basic and clinical scientists, including human geneticists, genome scientists, computational biologists, and experts in pathogenic microbial agents to chart the effects of genomics on questions in global infectious disease management.
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Organizers
o Aravinda Chakravarti (American Society of Human Genetics, USA)
o Jeremy Farrar (University of Oxford, UK)
o Louisa Flintoft (Nature Reviews Genetics, UK)
o Chris Gunter (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, USA)
o Edison Liu (Human Genome Organisation, Singapore)
o Magdalena Skipper (Nature, UK)
Date : March 21-24, 2009
Venue: The Ritz Carlton Millenia Hotel, Singapore
Check-in for the meeting will begin at 1.00pm on Saturday March 21, 2009.
The meeting will open with a Keynote session at 6.00pm on Saturday, March 21, 2009 and close with a reception on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6.30pm.
Session titles
Infectious Disease in Populations: Origins and Spread
The Genetics of Host Response
Pathogen Genomic Biology
Discovery in Emerging Infections
Infectious Disease Treatment and Response
A satellite Education session on Genomic Technologies and Genome Information Tools will precede the meeting on Saturday March 21, 2009 from 9:00am to 5:35 pm and will be held at the Biopolis, Singapore.
All presentations will be in English.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
* Laurent Abel (Université Paris - Descartes, France)
* Martin Blaser (New York University Langone Medical Center, USA)
* Alan Cowman (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
* Daniel Falush (University College Cork, Ireland)
* Neil Ferguson (Imperial College London, UK)
* Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford, UK)
* Eddie Holmes (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
* Yoshihiro Kawaoka (University of Wisconsin, USA)
* Adel Mahmoud (Princeton University, USA)
* Partha Majumder (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
* Barry Marshall (University of Western Australia, Australia)
* Stephen O'Brien (National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA)
* Albert Osterhaus (Erasmus Medical College, The Netherlands)
* Tikki Pang (World Health Organization, Switzerland)
* Julian Parkhill (Sanger Institute, UK)
* Malik Peiris (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
* Jacques Ravel (University of Maryland, USA)
* Yijun Ruan (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
* Mark Schrieber (Novartis, Singapore)
* Cameron Simmons (University of Oxford, UK)
* Rotem Sorek (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
* Patrick Tan (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
* YY Teo (University of Oxford, UK)
* Jun Wang (Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, China)
* Nick White (University Oxford, UK / Mahidol University, Thailand)
For more information please contact:
Susan Kim
[email protected]
Subject: GGID 2009
