Symposier og møter
Previous arrangements:
Workshop 2019
"Precision Medicine - from hype to clinical relevance"
Oslo, Monday 25th November 2019
Presentations:
Symposium
"Hvordan bruke genetisk forsking til å bedre folkehelsen"
Oslo, mandag 16. desember 2016
Symposium
"Gene variants and human disease - Norwegian opportunities"
Oslo, Friday 20. september 2013
organized by the Sig. K. Thoresens Foundation and The Norwegian Academy of Sciense and Letters.
Street addr.: Drammensveien 78, Oslo
Symposium
"Gene diversity in historical Norway and its present day applications"
Oslo, 2. november 2011
organized by the Sig. K. Thoresens Foundation and The Norwegian Academy of Sciense and Letters.
Street addr.: Drammensveien 78, Oslo
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Symposium
“Genomic and Genetic Aspects for human health and disease”
Oslo, September 20-22, 2010
organized by the Sig. K. Thoresen Foundation and The NorwegianAcademy of Science and Letters
Street addr.: Drammensveien 78, Oslo
Program and Registration
Workshop On Human Genomic Variation and Disease, Det Norske Vitenskaps-Akademi October 6th 2009
Program and Registration
Seminar On Human Genomic Variation and Disease 2008
Ole Andreassen Genetics of Schizophrenia - CNVs provide new insight
Åslaug Lorentzen Novel variants in Multiple Sclerosis
Eivind Hovig Core Facility for Genotyping
Robert Lyle Next generation DNA sequencing: technology and applications
Kjersti Skjold Rønningen SNP data to the general population Experiences from the MIDIA Study
Vessela Kristensen SNPs and molecular profiles of breast tumors
Silje Nordgard Overview of Genome-Wide Association Studies in Cancer
Benedicte A. Lie Genetic studies of autoimmune diseases
Rob Tibshirani Two case studies in genomics
Workshop november 2006
Workshop on human genomic variation and disease. Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi,
November 27th, 2006 Program og deltakere
Symposium mai 2005
Legatet arrangerte symposiet "Genomics and Genetic Applications in Medicine” i
Oslo 19.-21. mai 2005 sammen med Det Norske Vitenskapsakademi.
Program for symposiet:
Symposium "Genomics and Genetic Applications in Medicine”
organized by the Sig. K. Thoresen Foundation and The Norwegian Academy of Sciences,
in Oslo, May 19 - May 21, 2005:
Topics and speakers
Thursday May 19:
1. Clinical relevance of variation in genomic structure
Edward Rubin: "Clinical relevance of evolutionary changes"
Michael Wigler: “Large-scale copy number polymorphism in the human
genome and its clinical relevance”:
James R. Lupski : “Submicroscopic duplications and deletions;
clinical implications of rearrangement mutations”:
Jan Dumanski: “Full-coverage genomic microarrays -
applications in research and diagnostics”:
2. Obesity and longevity
Jeffrey Friedman: “Genes influencing obesity: their biological and clinical implications”:
Richard G. Faragher: “Clinical implications of identifying human longevity genes”:
3.Genetic variation controlling gene expression
Vivian Cheung: “Genetics of natural variation in human gene expression”:
Vessela N. Kristensen: ” SNPs in putative regulatory loci controlling
gene expression in cancer”:
4. Biobanks, epidemiology and ethics
Andres Metspalu: “The Estonian Genomic project: current status”:
Pål Møller: ”Haplotyping and intrafamilial associations in genetic epidemiology,
exemplified by delineation of BRCA1 founder mutations”.:
Friday May 20::
5. Gene expression, gene regulation and gene silencing in common human diseases
Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale:
“Gene expression in cancer: clinical impact”:
Ravi Sachidanandam:
“Computational identification of disease related non-coding RNAs”:
Olli Kallioniemi:
“Dissection of molecular pathways of cancer by high-throughput
biochip technologies and RNA interference”:
Olaug Rødningen:
“Gene expression and radiation sensitivity ”:
6. Polymorphisms and common diseases
Kenneth Kidd: “A global overview of human genetic variation”:
Leena Peltonen: “From famlies to populations: impact of disease genes”:
David Cox: “Identification of low penetrance genes and their impact on disease risk”:
Aarno Palotie: “Genetics of migraine”:
Knut Lundin: “The molecular basis for oat intolerance in patients with celiac disease”:
7. Molecular mechanisms and genetics of coronary heart disease (CHD)
Kari Stefansson: “The genetics of coronary heart disease”:
Richard Lawn: “ABC transporters and LXR receptors: a possible road
to cardiovascular drug discovery”:
Claes Bergmark: “Oxidized phospholipids and Lp(a) lipoprotein”:
Santica Marcovina: “Standardization of Lp(a) lipoproteim measurements
for clinical practice and research”:
Saturday May 21::
8. Genetics, psychology and psychiatry
Ole A. Andreassen: Hunting susceptibility genes for major psychoses. The TOP project:
Ken Kendler: Psychiatric Genetics: A current perspective Part I – Genetic epidemiology:
Ken Kendler: Part II – Gene finding methods:
Kristian Tambs: Genetic and environmental effects on anxiety, depression, and personality.
An unbalanced sample of results:
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud: Axis I and axis II psychiatric disorders in Norwegian twins:
Panel discussion: “Future role of genetics in psychiatry”:
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