Agenda

AGENDA

November 23, 2008 – Speaker Reception 7 - 9 pm

6:30 p.m.	Registration	CONGRESSIONAL ROOMS A & B

7:00 p.m.	Application of GWAs to Personalized Medicine Dietrich Stephan, The Translational Genomics Research Institute,

7:30 p.m.	The Impact of Structural and Genomic Variation in Humans Charles Lee, Harvard University

8:00 p.m.	Integrating SNPs, CNPs and rare CNVs with the Affymetrix SNP6.0 Jeffrey Smith, Affymetrix

November 24, 2008 – Workshop

8:00 a.m.	Registration	DIPLOMATROOM

8:30 a.m.	Overview and Introduction of Goal Tatiana Foroud, Indiana University Andy Singleton, NIA

8:40 a.m.	Genomewide Association Study for Susceptibility Genes Contributing to Familial Parkinson Disease Tatiana Foroud, Indiana University Rick Myers, Boston University

9:10 a.m.	PD GWAS for Sporadic Parkinson's NINDS Repository, European Cohort, Japanese Cohort Andy Singleton, NIA Thomas Gasser, Hertie Institute, Tubingen, Germany Toda Tatsushi, Osaka University, Japan

9:40 a.m.	Expression Analysis for Human PD John Hardy, Reta Lila Weston Institute, UK

10:10 a.m.	Finding New Genes through the Longitudinal Clinical, Pathologial, and Molecular Genetic Studies; Three Examples in Different Stages of Progress - Perry Syndrome (An Insight into Non-Motor Dysfunction in PD?), Arkansas and Indiana Families (PD + RLS), HDLS (Parkinsonism + White Matter Disorder). Zbigniew Wszolek, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville

10:40 a.m.	The Genetic Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease Consortium (GEO-PD) and Pathways-Based Analysis of PD GWA Datasets Jim Maraganore, Mayo Clinic Rochester

11:10 a.m.	Break

11:35 a.m.	Genes and Environment - GEI Sponsored Environmental Exposure Measures Patty Freedson, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

12:05 a.m.	Epidemiological Studies and Pathways Alberto Ascherio, Harvard School of Public Health

12:35p.m.	The Genetics Consortium: Lessons Learned Nick Wood, Welcome Trust

1:05 p.m.	LUNCH - Industry Presentations

1:35 p.m.	Data Blitz

2:00 p.m.	Consortia Building - Effective Data Sharing and Collaboration in the Era of GWA Studies Tatiana Foroud, Indiana University

2:15 p.m.	Foundation Presentations on Priorities

2:45 p.m.	Break

3:00 p.m.	Breakout Session - Directions for the Future 1. Biological Interpretation of GWAS (Jim Gusella) 2. Next Generation Technologies (Peter Heutlink) 3. Environmental Exposures (Carlie Tanner and Karen Marder) 4. Meta - Analysis (Tatiana Foroud)

3:45 p.m.	Summary of Breakouts and How To Go Forward -Review Summaries From Groups -Organize Subgroups To Move Progress Forward

4:45 p.m.	Closing Remarks, Plan Marg Sutherland

5:00 p.m.	Meeting Adjourn

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