CGDN ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2001
FROM GENES TO THERAPIES
THURSDAY APRIL 26- SUNDAY APRIL 29, 2001
FINAL PROGRAM
Manoir Saint-Saveur
246, ch. du Lac Millette
Saint-Saveur-des-Monts (Quebec) J0R 1R3
Tel: 450-227-1879 Fax: 450-227-8512
http://www.manoir-saint-sauveur.com/
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
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17:00 |
ARRIVE HOTEL - check-in, poster set-up and settle |
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18:30 - 20:00 |
DINNER (Hotel Restaurant) |
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20:00 - 20.30 |
WELCOME SESSION (Matterhorn Rooms) |
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20:00 |
MICHAEL HAYDEN (Scientific Director, CGDN): Welcome |
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20:15 |
RON WOZNOW (CEO, CGDN): Our New Mission Statement |
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21:00 |
NIGHT OWL SOCIAL and poster set-up |
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
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07:00 - 08:00 |
BREAKFAST BUFFET (Hotel Restaurant) |
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08:00 - 12:20 |
SESSION 1: HOT NEWS FROM THE CGDN RESEARCH PROGRAM (Matterhorn Rooms) |
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08:00 |
Brenda Gallie (OCI): 'A novel gene that may be an oncogene' |
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08:20 |
Anurag Tandon (UofT) 'Processing and Trafficking of Nicastrin' |
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08:40 |
Michael Hayden (UBC): 'From a rare disease to treatment of the most common lipid abnormality in Coronary Artery Disease' |
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09:00 |
Diane Cox (UofA): 'Copper-Iron Connection in Dogs and Humans' |
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09:20 |
Roy Gravel (UofC): 'Folate/vitamin B12 metabolism: Role of methionine synthase reductase and generation of a knock-out mouse model' |
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09:40 |
Philippe Gros (McGill): 'Genetic control of susceptibility to mycobacterial infections' |
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10:00- 10.40 |
Coffee Break |
| 10.40 | François Rousseau (Laval): 'Short polyglutamine tracts in the androgen receptor are protective against breast cancer in the general population' |
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11:00 |
Frank Jirik (UofC): 'Novel cross and a new mouse model of Fanconi Anemia' |
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11:20 |
Lorne Clarke (UBC): Mucopolysaccaridosis Type 1: Clinical Trials |
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11:40 |
Pieter Cullis (UBC): 'Tumour-Specific Gene Expression Following I.V. Injection of Stabilized Plasmid-Lipid Particles' |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch (Hotel Restaurant) |
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12:00 - 13:30 |
PRIORITIES & PLANNING COMMITTEE (Room Vail A) (P&P members only) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
SESSION 2: TECHNOLOGIES: NEW ANIMAL MODELS (Existing & Potential Resources) (Matterhorn Rooms) Facilitator: Roy Gravel |
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13:30 |
Emil Skamene (McGill) & Guy Rouleau (McGill): Epilepsy & Congenic Mice |
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13:50 |
Frank Jirik (UofC) & Blair Leavitt (UBC): Huntington Disease & Transgenic Mice |
| 14:10 | Marina Gertsenstein (SLRI) & Corrinne Lobe (Sunnybrook Hospital) 'Novel technologies available for ES cell-mediated genome alterations' |
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14:30 |
Elizabeth M Simpson (UBC): Mouse Behavior Testing Suite |
| 14:50 - 16:45 | Break & Attended Poster Session I (Salons St. Moritz & Edelweiss) |
| 16:45 - 18:15 |
SESSION 3: CGDN / CIHR INSTITUTE OF GENETICS: STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES
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| 16:45 | Rod McInnes (Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Genetics) |
| 17:15 | Discussion |
| 18:30 |
DINNER (Salon Chamonix) |
SATURDAY, APRIL 28
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07:00 - 08:00 |
Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Restaurant) |
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08:00 - 10:00 |
SESSION 4: NEW PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS AND SCHOLARS (Matterhorn Rooms) |
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08:00 |
Geoffrey Hicks (U of Manitoba): 'Mammalian Functional Genomics: Large scale strategies for the development of allelic panels of embryonic stem cell mutations' |
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08:20 |
Jayne Danska (HSC) 'Unraveling complex traits: genetic and functional analysis of Type 1 diabetes' |
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William Foulkes (McGill) 'Clinical, pathological and molecular characteristics of hereditary breast cancer ' |
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09:00 |
Susan Andrew (U of Alberta) 'DNA mismatch repair and tumourigenesis' |
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Celia Greenwood (McGill) 'Pedigree selection and tests of linkage in a Hutterite pedigree' |
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09:40 |
Christopher Pearson (HSC) 'Expansions of (CTG)/(CAG) Repeats in a Primate DNA Replication System' |
| 10.00- 11:15 | Break & Attended Poster Session II (Salons St. Moritz & Edelweiss) |
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11:15 - 12:30 |
SESSION 5: TECHNOLOGIES: CHIPPING AWAY AT THE GENOME (Matterhorn Rooms) |
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11:15 |
Tom Hudson (McGill): The Microarray Experiment |
| 11:45 | Rima Rozen (McGill): Microarray Analysis of brain RNA in mice with MTHFR deficiency & hyperhomocysteinuria |
| 12:00 | Mike Szego (HSC): Gene expression in neurodegeneration |
| 12:15 | Robert Sladek (McGill): Steroid genomics |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
CGDN Annual General Meeting & Lunch (Salon Chamonix) |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Individual Networking Sessions |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Attended Poster Session III (Salons St. Moritz & Edelweiss) |
| 19:00 |
BANQUET (Salon Chamonix) Keynote Speaker: The Right Hon. Don Mazankowski (Chair of Board of Directors,
CGDN) |
SUNDAY, APRIL 29
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Breakfast Buffet (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 08:30 | PLENARY SESSION (Matterhorn Rooms) Pavel Hamet (UdM): "Ancestors, obesity and hypertension in Saguenay" |
| 09:00 - 10.00 | SESSION 6: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Bioinformatics, Proteomics
& Unigene Resource Facilitator: Stephen Herst |
| 09:00 | Francis Ouellette (UBC) 'Blueprint and BIND: a new world resource for the database of interactions established in Vancouver' |
| 09:25 | Keith Ashman (SLRI) "How Many Proteomes must a Man Walk Down" |
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09:50 |
Steve Scherer (HSC) Using the Unigene Resource |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee Break |
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10:15- 12:00 |
SESSION 7: RESEARCH ADVANCES (continued) |
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10:15 |
Silvia Vidal (OHRI): 'An activating C-type lectin NK cell receptor confers resistance to infection with mouse cytomegalovirus' |
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10:30 |
Eduardo Diez (McGill): "Towards the identification of the natural host defense gene Lgn1" |
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10:45 |
Craig Dorrell (HSC): "Gene transfer into stem cells: implications for gene therapy" |
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11:00 |
Xueping Fan (McGill): "Characterization of the OMPD gene product, Poly(A) Binding Protein Nuclear 1 (PABPN1)" |
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11:15 |
Michael Wilson (UVic): "Comparative Analysis of a gene rich region on human chromosome 7q22 and the orthologous region in the mouse" |
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11:30 |
Ramsey Saleem (UofA): "A molecular dissection of the FOXC1 forkhead domain" |
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11:45 |
Wrap Up - Michael Hayden |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch (Hotel Restaurant) |
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13:30 |
Buses depart |