Titel: XX. International Congress of Genetics: "Genetics - Complexity of Living Systems"

Termin: 12.7.2008, 8:30 Uhr, bis 17.7.2008, 17:30 Uhr

Veranstaltungsort:
Messe Berlin GmbH
Internationales Congress Centrum ICC Berlin
Neue Kantstraße / Ecke Messedamm
14057 Berlin

Referenten: Ruedi Aebersold (Zürich, Switzerland) *** Siv Andersson (Uppsala, Sweden) *** Bartha Knoppers (Montreal, Canada) *** Charalambos Kyriacou (Leicester, UK) *** Ana Barahona (Tialpan, Mexico) *** Ruth Lehmann (New York, USA) ***Cori Bargmann (New York, USA) *** Ottoline Leyser (York, UK) *** Nick Barton (Edinburgh, UK) *** Thomas Lindahl (South Mimms, UK) *** David Baulcombe (Norwich, UK) *** Klaus Lindpainter (Basel, Switzerland) *** Hugo Bellen (Houston, USA) *** Edison Liu (Singapore) *** Jeffrey Bennetzen (Athens, USA) *** John M. Logsdon (Iowa, USA) *** Shelley Berger (Philadelphia, USA) *** Trudy Mackay (Raleigh, USA) *** Casey Bergman (Manchester, UK) *** Partha P. Majumder (Kolkata, India) *** Bruce Beutler (La Jolla, USA) *** Marjori Matzke (Vienna, Austria) *** Ewan Birney (Hinxton, UK) *** Gilean McVean (Oxford, UK) *** Nancy Bonini (Philadelphia, USA) *** Joe Nadeau (Cleveland, USA) *** Steve Briggs (San Diego, USA) *** Wolfgang Nellen (Kassel, Germany) *** Jeremy Burdon (Canberra, Australia) *** Laura Niedernhofer (Pittsburg, USA) *** Aravinda Chakravarti (Baltimore, USA) *** Allen Orr (Rochester, USA) *** Deborah Charlesworth (Edinburgh, Britain) *** Terry Orr-Weaver (Cambridge, USA) *** George Church (Boston, USA) *** Elaine Ostrander (Bethesda, USA) *** Max Cooper (Birmingham, USA) *** Linda Partridge (London, UK) *** Barry Dickson (Vienna, Austria) *** Susan Parkhurst (Seattle, USA) *** Andrew Dillin (La Jolla, USA) *** Hervé Philippe (Montreal, Canada) *** Anna Di Rienzo (Chicago, USA) *** Alfred Pühler (Bielefeld, Germany) *** John Doebley (Madison, USA) *** Erez Raz (Göttingen, Germany) *** Denis Duboule (Geneva, Switzerland) *** André Reis (Erlangen, Germany) *** Evan Eichler (Seattle, USA) *** Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin, Germany) *** Jonathan Eisen (Davis, USA) *** Francisco Rodriguez-Valera (Alicante, Spain) *** Jonathan Flint (Oxford, UK) *** John Schimenti (New York, USA) *** Veronica Franklin-Tong (Birmingham, UK) *** Eran Segal (Rehovot, Israel) *** Kelly Frazer (La Jolla, USA) *** Hee-Sup Shin (Seoul, South Korea) *** Martin Fussenegger (Zürich, Switzerland) *** Akira Shizuo (Osaka, Japan) *** Michel Georges (Liège, Belgium) *** Mikiko Siomi (Kuramoto, Japan) *** Jonathan Gressel (Rehovot, Israel) *** Christina Smolke (Pasadena, USA) *** Anthony Griffiths (Vancouver, Canada) *** David Smyth (Melbourne, Australia) *** Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, Spain) *** Marla Sokolowski (Toronto, Canada) *** Chris Haley (Roslin, UK) *** Karen Steel (Hinxton, UK) *** Min Han (Boulder, USA) *** Lars Steinmetz (Heidelberg, Germany) *** Mitsuyasa Hasebe (Okazaki, Japan) *** Wolfgang Stephan (Munich, Germany) *** Steven Henikoff (Seattle, USA) *** Michael Stratton (Hinxton, UK) *** Martin L. Hibberd (Singapore) *** Azim Surani (Cambridge, UK)*** Adrian Hill (Oxford, UK) *** Joseph Takahashi (Evanston, USA) *** Helen Hobbs (Dallas, USA) *** Diethard Tautz (Plön, Germany) *** Elisa Izaurralde (Tuebingen, Germany) *** Chau-Ti Ting (Hsinchu, Taiwan) *** Janet Jansson (Uppsala, Sweden) *** John Wakeley (Cambridge, USA) *** Nancy Jenkins (Singapore) *** Detlef Weigel (Tuebingen, Germany) *** Julie Johnson (Florida, USA) *** Sue Wessler (Athens, USA) *** Thomas Kaufman (Bloomington, USA) *** Eric Wieschaus (Princeton, USA) *** Daniel Kevles (New Haven, USA) *** Zhu Zhen (Beijing, China) *** Amar Klar (Frederick, USA) *** Huda Y. Zoghbi (Houston, USA) *** Arne Klungland (Oslo, Norway)

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.gfgenetik.de/dokumente/Berlin.pdf

Kurzbeschreibung: The field of Gentics continues to witness impressive advances in understanding the herediary basis of the structure, function and evolution of living systems. The next International Congress of Genetics (ICG), to be held in Berlin, Germany, July 12 - 17, 2008, will address the latest developments in this existing frontier of science.

Genomics, the study of complete genomes, has revolutionized genetic research. Complete and annotated genome sequences and comprehensive maps of polymorphism from many model organisms are available, including the genomes of man and its closest relative the chimpanzee. Genome architectures and structure function relationships of complex macromolecular assemblies are being elucidated in ever greate depth. Genome-wide transcriptome and proteome analyses are widely available. Importantly, comparative genomics provides deep insights into evolutionary mechanisms underlying genetic variation, adaption ans speciation. Genomic polymorphisms among humans reveal a rich picture of our recent evolutionary history as well as the genetic, epigenetic and environmental contributions to disease risk.

Powerful technologies to generate both inheritable and transient genetic perturbations are at hand. These include site-directed gene replacement and RNA imterference wich provide new insights into functional gene networks. A major challenge in the effective integration of the burgeoning data into a new understanding of networks of functional interactions among genes across the diversity of living organisms.

Impressive progress is already made in the bioinformatic and mathematic integration of genomic data. Computational analyses of genomic data and the simulation of models of biological systems are yielding the new discipline of computational genetics as well as the first steps toward synthetic biology.

The XX. International Congress of Gentics, Berlin 2008, will review recent developments in genetics and address the following topics:

1 DNA and chromosome dynamics

2 Genomics, proteomics, metabotomics

3 Genome - environment interactions

4 Population genetics

5 Genetic basis of speciation

6 Evolution of man

7 Development of multicelular organisms

8 Biodiversity

9 Microbial systems

10 Plant model organisms

11 Epigenetics

12 Human genetics / Human disease

13 Neurogenetics

14 Genetics of behaviour

15 Ageing and longevity

16 Stem cells

17 Pharmacogenomics

18 Computational genetics / Systems biology

19 Synethetic biology

20 Technology / Instrumentation

21 Biotechnology and agricultural applications

22 Genetics and society / Teaching genetics

Kontakt: K.I.T. GmbH
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10709 Berlin
Tel.: +49 - (0)30 - 24 60 30
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info@geneticsberlin2008.com
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Veranstalter: German Genetics Society (GfG)

Schlagworte: Biotechnologie, Embryonale Stammzellen, Genforschung/-technik, Genomanalyse, Hirnforschung, Humangenetik, Krankheit, Technikethik