Genomic Medicine Symposium

9am to 5pm

Friday, January 18, 2013

245 Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical Health Sciences

You are invited to attend the Symposium on Genomic Medicine. The symposium is free and open to the public. Space is limited and registration is required. Registration is closed.

Schedule

9:00 Welcoming Remarks, Dan Rokhsar, Organizer
9:05 – 9:45 Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, “Uses of Exome Sequencing for Disease Gene Discovery”
9:50 – 10:30 Barbara Wold, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, “The Non-Coding Regulatory Genome”
10:35 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:30 Stephen Quake, D.Phil., Stanford University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Is the Genome Useful in Medicine?
11:35 – 12:15 [Speaker Change] Nicholas Eriksson, Ph.D., 23andMe, “Direct to Consumer Genetic Research at 23andMe”
12:20 – 2:00 Lunch Break (not hosted)
2:00 – 2:40 Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute, “Enabling Genomic and Individualized Medicine: Strategies and Challenges”
2:45 – 3:25 Stephen L. Hauser, M.D., University of California, San Francisco, “The Example of Multiple Sclerosis: What is in Store for our Patients?”
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 KEYNOTE: Kári Steffánsson, M.D., Dr. Med., deCODE Genetics, “Genetics of Common/Complex traits”
5:00 Adjourn