Table 1 The 2nd IGMC program
From: The second international genomic medicine conference (2nd IGMC, 2013): brief report and outcome
Day One Sunday 24th November 2013 | |
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08:00-09:00 | Registration |
09:00-09:15 | Opening Ceremony |
09:15-09:30 | KAU Endowment (Wagf) Introduction |
09:30-09:50 | Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Swailem “Saudi national science, technology and innovation plan towards knowledge based economy” |
Session (1): ONCOGENOMICS | |
Chairpersons: Prof. Paolo Sassone-Corsi & Prof. Adnan Merdad | |
09:50-10:20 | Prof. Jerry Shay “Identification of small molecule inhibitors that target truncated adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) in colon cancer” |
10:20-10:50 | Prof. Albert Joseph Fornace Jr. “Addition of metabolomics to the omics spectrum for cancer biomarker development – demonstration with the KrasG12D mouse model for pancreatic carcinoma” |
10:50-11:05 | Coffee Break |
Chairpersons: Prof. Emmanouil Dermitzakis & Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Swailem | |
11:05-11:35 | Prof. Angel Carracedo "Pharmacogenomics of CRC treatments" |
11:35-11:55 | Dr. Abdelbaset Buhmeida “Molecular characterization of colorectal carcinoma of Saudi Arabian patients and identification of predictors of disease outcome” |
11:55-12:15 | Dr. Brian Meyer “Application of next generation sequencing in oncology” |
12:15-12:35 | Dr. Ashraf Dallol "The methylome of breast cancer in Saudi Arabia " |
12:35-13:30 | Prayers, Lunch & Poster Sessions |
Session (2): FRONTIERS OF GENOMICS-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS | |
Chairpersons: Prof. Eberhard Nieschlag & Dr. Sultan Al-Sedairy | |
13:30-14:30 | KEYNOTE SPEECH PROF. ERWIN NEHER (Nobel Prize Laureate) “Ion channels: their discovery, their function, and their role in disease” |
14:30-14:50 | Dr. Ibrahim Abdulkareem “How does Arab genome different from other genomes” |
14:50-15:45 | Coffee Break & Poster Sessions |
Chairpersons: Prof. Albert Fornace Jr & Dr. Mohammed Al-Balwi | |
15:45-16:15 | Prof. Paolo Sassone-Corsi “Epigenetics and metabolism: The clock connection” |
16:15-16:45 | Prof. Frank Hu “Nutritional genomics and metabolomics in obesity and type 2 diabetes” |
16:45-17:05 | Prof. Valerio Orlando “Epigenetic control of cell identity and plasticity” |
Day Two Monday25 th November 2013 | |
08:30-09:00 | Reception, Coffee & Poster Sessions |
Session (1): SYSTEMS BIOLOGY & COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS | |
Chairpersons: Prof. Sudhir Kumar & Dr. Adeel Chaudhary | |
09:00-09:30 | Prof. Emmanouil Dermitzakis “Understanding the phenotypic impact of non-coding sequence variation” |
09:30-10:00 | Prof. Sudhir Kumar “Next generation methods and tools for timing the evolution of species and strains” |
10:00-10:30 | Prof. Adam Godzik “Structural systems biology – from bacterial to cancer networks” |
10:30-10:50 | Dr. Barry Merriman “Solving genetic disease at the population scale” |
10:50 – 11:05 | Mr. Ayman Abuelela “Sialyl Lewis X/A-forming glycosyl transferases controlled by prometastatic and cell stemness transcription factors: meta-analysis of ENCODE ChIP-Seq data." |
11:05-11:20 | Coffee Break |
Session (2): IMMUNOGENOMICS | |
Chairpersons: Prof. Nobutaka Hirokawa & Dr. Aayed Robiaan Al-Qahtani | |
11:20-11:50 | Prof. FooYew Liew “The Immunogenetics of rheumatoid arthritis” |
11:50-12:20 | Prof. Ali Mobasheri “Biomarkers of osteoarthritis: translating information from in vitro culture systems to human patients” |
12:20 – 12:30 | Dr. Hani Choudhry “Unlocking the complexity of hypoxia non-coding transcriptome landscape of breast cancer” |
12:30 - 12:40 | Dr. Nouf Laqtom “The regulation and function of miR-199-3p in CMV infections” |
12:40-13:40 | Prayer & Lunch |
Session (3): THE OMICS OF CELL SIGNALING & REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY | |
Chairpersons: Prof. Jerry Shay & Dr. Mohammed Al-Qahtani | |
13:40-14:10 | Prof. Norbert Perrimon “Signaling in time and space” |
14:10-14:40 | Prof. Nobutaka Hirokawa “Intracellular transport and molecular motors, KIFs” |
14:40-15:10 | Prof. Stephen Scherer “Autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders: so many genes involved” |
15:10-15:40 | Prof. Eric Olson “The molecules and mechanisms of muscle development, disease and regeneration” |
15:40-16:00 | Coffee Break |
Chairpersons: Prof. Ali Mobasheri & Prof. Jaudah Al-Maghrabi | |
16:00-16:20 | Dr. Muhammad Abu-Elmagd “Sprouty2 mediated tuning of signaling is essential for somite myogenesis“ |
16:20-16:50 | Prof. Ashok Agarwal “Impact of sperm chromatin damage on natural fertility and art success: evidence based medicine” |
16:50-17:20 | Prof. Eberhard Nieschlag “Genetics of male infertility” |
17:20-17:50 | Closing Remarks & Ceremony |
Day Three Tuesday 26 th November 2013 | |
WORKSHOPS | |
08:00-17:00 | Application of Molecular Cytogenetics (Dr. Ibtessam Ramzi Hussein) |
08:00-17:00 | High Throughput DNA Sequencing (Dr. Ashraf Dallol) |
08:00-17:00 | Application of Molecular Genetics (Dr. Muhammad Imran) |
08:00-17:00 | Application of Microarrays (Dr. Hans Schulten) |
08:00-17:00 | Flow Cytometry in Oncology (Dr. Farid Ahmed) |
Day Four Wednesday 27 th November 2013 | |
WORKSHOPS | |
08:00-16:00 | Power of Bioinformatics (Dr. Sajjad Karim) |