Topics selected for Programme Baltic Summer School 2009

Genetic Basis of Medicine

University of Kiel, 2009

1. Basic principles: Genetic and non-genetic risk factors for complex disease
2. Molecular technology for disease gene discovery
3. Genetic risk factors in inflammatory barrier disease: IBD, Psoriasis, Sarcoidosis, Asthma, Atopic Eczema, periodontitis, CHD
4. Genomic discovery of disease mechanisms and non-genetic trigger factors
5. Molecular principles in senescence
6. Epigenetic disease mechanisms
7. Pathway Mapping
8. Bringing genetics to medicine: diagnostic applications and pharmacogenetics
9. Ethical Aspects
10. Genetic Medicine: therapeutic Applications

The course will take ten days, each topic will be dealt with in one day. The format of BSS 2009 will be as in the previous years.