FRIDAY, APRIL 7
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17:00 |
ARRIVE HOTEL - check-in, poster set-up and settle | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | DINNER (Hotel Restaurant) | |
| 20:00 - 21:15 | WELCOME SESSION (Dynasty I) | |
| 20:00 | RONALD WORTON (Associate Scientific Director, CGDN): Welcome | |
| 20:15 | RON WOZNOW (CEO, CGDN): The Road to Self Sufficiency & Exella Life Science Ventures Inc. | |
| 20:45 | STEPHEN LOLLAR (CANADIAN GENE CURE FOUNDATION): Sweetness and Light - The Jeans for Genes Campaign | |
| 21:00 | NIGHT OWL SOCIAL and poster set-up |
SATURDAY, APRIL 8
| 07:00 - 08:00 | BREAKFAST BUFFET (Hotel Restaurant) |
| 08:00 - 08:15 | Michael Hayden (Scientific Director, CGDN): The Road Ahead for CGDN: Successes and Challenges (Dynasty 1) |
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08:15 - 11:40 |
SESSION 1: NEWS FROM THE CGDN RESEARCH PROGRAM (Dynasty 1) |
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08:15 |
Leigh Field (U of Calgary): Are dopamine receptors involved in predisposition to dyslexia? |
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08:35 |
Michael Walter (U of Alberta): Glaucoma, heart defects, and Forkhead genes |
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08:55 |
Erwin Schurr (McGill): Genetics of mycobacterial diseases |
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09:15 |
Ken Morgan (McGill): Population genetics of spastic ataxia in the Charlevoix-Saguenay population |
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09:35 |
Frank Tufaro (UBC): The EXT gene in hereditary multiple exostoses |
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09:55 |
Grant Mitchell (U de Montreal): Gene Targeting of Hormone-Sensitive Lipase: Rethinking Fat Cell Metabolism. |
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10:15 - 10:40 |
Break |
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10:40 |
John Dick (Hospital for Sick Children): Genetic manipulation of human stem cells |
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11:00 |
Jack Greenblatt (U of Toronto): Biological Roles of an RNAPolymerase II CTD Phosphatase |
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11:20 |
Norm Dovichi (U of Alberta): Recent advances in capillary array electrophoresis |
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11:40 - 12:30 |
ATTENDED POSTER SESSION 1 (Dynasty 2) |
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12:30 - 13:30 |
LUNCH (Hotel Restaurant) |
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12:30 - 13:00 |
TRAINING COMMITTEE MEETING (Penthouse 2) (Training Committee members only) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | SESSION 2: SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIONS (Dynasty 1) |
| 13:30 | Tom Hudson (McGill) & Grant Mitchell (U de Montreal): Genotyping strategies in gene discovery |
| 14:00 | Regen Drouin (Laval) & Daniel Sinnett (U de Montreal) In vivo DNA analysis is critical to better understand molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression |
| 14:30 | Ben Koop (U Victoria) & Angie Brooks-Wilson (Xenon Bioresearch) Shotgun sequencing and Gene Discovery |
| 15:00 | Brenda Gallie (OCI) & Kirk Vandezande (SFU) How to translate a gene discovery into a new diagnostic test and service |
| 15:30 - 17:30 | ATTENDED POSTER SESSION 2 & BREAK (Dynasty 2) |
| 15:30 - 17:30 |
CONCURRENT NETWORKING SESSION |
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16:30 - 17:30 |
PRIORITIES & PLANNING COMMITTEE MEETING (Penthouse 1)(P&P members only) |
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18:00 - 21:30 |
DINNER CRUISE (Depart from Hotel foyer at 18:00) |
SUNDAY, APRIL 9
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07:00 - 08:00 |
BREAKFAST BUFFET (Hotel Restaurant) |
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08:00 - 09:45 |
SESSION 3: CASE STUDIES FROM CGDN'S STRATEGIC FUND (Dynasty 1) |
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08:00 | Helena Chaye (CGDN): Overview of the CGDN Strategic Fund |
| 08:15 | Bob Korneluk (CHEO) & John Gillard (Apoptogen) [Case Study 1: Apoptosis and Apoptogen] |
| 08:45 | Francois Rousseau (Laval) & Michael Dennis (SignalGene) [Case Study 2: Psoriasis / Osteoporosis & SignalGene] |
| 09:15 | Simon Pimstone (Xenon) [Case Study 3: Gene discovery & Xenon Bioresearch] |
| 09:45 - 10:10 | BREAK |
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10:10 - 12:10 |
SESSION 4: RESEARCH ADVANCES 1999 (Dynasty 1) |
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10:10 |
Janet Atkinson-Grosjean (UBC): The NCE Experiment: Focus on CGDN |
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10:30 |
Chantal Bouffard (Laval): Beliefs and the Construction of Ethical Norms in Medical Genetics |
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10:50 |
Tracey Petryshen (Calgary): The long and winding road -- towards a dyslexia gene |
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11:10 |
Craig Dorrell (Hospital for Sick Children): Gene Transfer into human hematopoetic stem cells |
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11:30 |
James Engert (Montreal Genome Centre): Mutations in a Gigantic Exon Cause ARSACS |
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11:50 |
Anny Fortin (McGill): Identification and characterization of the genetic component of differential susceptibility to malaria in mice |
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12:10 |
Closing Comments |
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12:20 - 13:30 |
LUNCH (Penthouse 2, 3, 4) (Top floor) |
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13:30 |
END OF CGDN ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 2000 |
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18:00 |
Human Genome Meeting Starts (Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre)
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