We are pleased to be able to announce that Professor John Burn of Newcastle University will be giving the Conference Keynote Address. He will be speaking on 'The Future of Genetic Research'. Professor Burn is Director of the Cancer Research UK Clinical Cancer Genetics Network with a remit to support research into hereditary predisposition to cancer.
In memory of Isambard Kingdom Brunel we will have one plenary session on:
state-of-the-art chromosome engineering and another on:
the
three ages of chromosome research.
Our plenary speakers are:
- Prof David Ward, Yale University
- Prof Huntington Willard, Duke University, North Carolina
- Prof Andy Choo, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
- Dr Christine Farr, University of Cambridge
- Prof Adrian Sumner, North Berwick
- Prof Patricia Jacobs, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory
Late Breaking Research/Results Session
This will be the last plenary session of the conference, held on the Friday afternoon.
More details here.
Concurrent Sessions
Our concurrent sessions will include speakers on the latest research in:
- Aneuploidy
- Animal chromosomes
- Centromeres
- Comparative Genomics / Chromosome Evolution
- Chromosome transfer
- Epigenetics
- Gene therapy
- Genome organisation
- Haematological Malignancy
- Meiosis
- New methodologies
- Plant chromosomes
- Population cytogenetics
- Post-genomic era
- Prokaryote chromosomes
- Reproduction
- Sex chromosomes
- Telomeres
- Tumour cytogenetics
The list of session chairs for the above topics includes:
- Dr Terry Hassold, Case Western Reserve University
- Prof Bill Earnshaw, University of Edinburgh
- Prof Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge
- Prof Jenny Graves, The Australian National University
- Dr Pat Hunt, Case Western Reserve University
- Prof Titia DeLange, The Rockefeller University
- Prof Michael Schmid, University of Wurzburg
- Prof Pat Heslop-Harrison, University of Leicester
- Dr Nigel Carter, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Prof Joy Delhanty, University College London
- Prof Adrian Bird, The University of Edinburgh
- Prof Peter Lichter, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- Prof Andrew Wright, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Prof Harold Klinger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Dr Kevin Sullivan, The Scripps Institute
- Dr Jeremy Searle, University of York
- Dr Martin Bentz, University of Ulm
- Dr Clare Huxley, Hammersmith Hospital
- Prof Hans Tanke, University of Leiden
Also below is the list of other speakers who have agreed to attend to date.
Professor David Sherratt
Professor Horst Hameister
Professor Ira Greenbaum
Professor J George Dickson
Professor Jennifer Marshall-Graves
Professor Jorma Isola
Professor Kim Nasmyth
Professor Maj Hulten
Professor Martin S Dyer
Professor Minoru Murata
Professor Susan Gasser
Professor Tony Kouzarides
Professor Jeff Errington
Dr Alan Herr
Dr Andreas Houben
Dr Andrew Belmont
Dr Antonio Fontdevila
Dr Beth Sullivan
Dr Calum MacAulay
Dr Carolyn Brown
Dr Celia May
Dr Chris Parris
Dr Christer Hoog
Dr D Filatov
Dr Darren Griffin
Dr Dave Burt
Dr Dave M Rowell
Dr Donna Albertson
Dr Doug Higgs
Dr Elvira Van Assche
Dr Eric Green
Dr Guido Tricot
Dr Heather McQueen
Dr Helen Tempest
Dr Helene Hayes
Dr Hiroshi Masumoto
Dr Jerry Shay
Dr Jiming Jiang
Dr Joanna Bridger
Dr Juan Camacho
Dr Leeanda Wilton
Dr Mitsuo Oshimura
Dr Paola Vagnarelli
Dr Paul Fransz
Dr Paula Cohen
Dr Petra Hajkova
Dr Predrag Slijepcevic
Dr Sharon Bickel
Dr Stefan Mueller
Dr Stephen J O'Brien
Dr Stephen Taylor
Dr Tatsuo Fukagawa
Dr Thomas Cremer
Dr Tom Misteli
Dr Wendy Bickmore
Dr Wendy Robinson
Dr William Brown
Dr Zoia Larin Monaco
Iain Cheeseman
Joshua A Udall
Julian Lange
Kevin Livingstone
Ms Helen Foster
Ms Karen Meaburn
Ross Jones
