Preliminary program Baltic Summer School 2009

University of Kiel


Sunday, September 6 th :

13:00 – 17:00: Registration
17:00 – 18:30 Welcome addresses and honorary lecture – open for public
19:00 – 21:00: Get together

07.09. – 11.09.2009 (Monday – Friday): daily sessions
14.09. – 18.09.2009 (Monday – Friday): daily sessions
21.09. – 25.09.2009 (Monday – Friday): lab – course


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Genetic and non–genetic aspects of asthma. Ivo Gut
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture The importance of rare variants vs. common variants – what have we learnt from GWAS and what can we get with next generation sequencing? David Clayton
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Statistical concerns and approaches for complex disease genetics. Thomas Wienker
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Goals and scientific visions of disease genome research in Asia. Jun Wang
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture Global mapping of copy–number variants in humans by next generation sequencing. Jan Korbel
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 Study. Jeffrey Barrett
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table All Speakers
19.30 Evening–Lecture Throughput sequencing and microbial forensics. Bruce Budowle


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review The Neandertal genome and the reconstruction of the ancestral human proteome. Hernán A. Burbano
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Sequencing individual human genomes by massively parallel ligation chemistry. Francisco de la Vega
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Nanoscience and genomics Kalim Mir
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture 3rd Generation Sequencing II Marcus Dröge
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture Reduction of genomic complexity – enrichment strategies. Olle Ericsson
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Genetics of primary sclerosing cholangitis, a role model for an inflammatory, HLA–associated disease. Tom Hemming Karlsen
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Molecular Dissection of Psoriasis: Integrating Genetics and Biology. James T. Elder
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Risk map of intestinal inflammatory disorders. Cisca Wijmenga
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Asthma genetics. Michael Kabesch
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Genetics susceptibility factors for atopic eczema. Stephan Weidinger
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 15.15 Lecture A genome–wide perspective of genetic variation in human metabolism. Thomas Illig
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Genetic risk factors for Coronary heart disease (CHD). Heribert Schunkert
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Gene mining for novel biocatalysts in marine microbial communities. Ruth Schmitz–Streit
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture The human intestinal microbiome project – present and future(Cluster lecture – Inflammation at interfaces). Daniel Frank
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Microbiota and mucosal disease. Stephan Ott
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Functional genomics in neuroblastoma. Alexander Schramm
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 15.15 Lecture Host microbial responses in the gastrointestinal tract. Frederik Bäckhed
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Genetics, genomics and systems biology. Hans Lehrach
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Epidemiology and demography of human longevity. Jutta Gampe
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Genetics of human longevity. Claudio Franceschi
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Model organisms for ageing research: C. elegans. Hinrich Schulenburg
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Model organisms for ageing research: from drosophila to mouse. Matthias Platzer
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture System biology and ageing. Tom Kirkwood
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Ageing and homeostasis. James Adjaye
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Methodological Review Where epigenomics meet diagnostics. Jörn Lewin
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Mechanisms and patterns of epimutations in cancer. Heinz Linhart
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Heterochromatin, epigenetic inheritance and cancer. Prim Singh
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Imprinting disorders. Bernhard Horsthemke
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture Reverse phenotyping: towards an integrated (epi)genomic approach to complex phenotypes and common disease. Stephan Beck
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Epigenetic changes in cancer. Reiner Siebert
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers
19.30 Evening–Lecture Advances in genomics of human gene expression. Emmanouil Dermitzakis


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Reverse engineering of disease mechanisms. Vitor dos Santos
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Modelling biological systems using genomic and proteomic data. Ruprecht Kuner
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Protein interaction maps – pathways and beyond. Stefan Wiemann
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Systematic RNAi approaches – how to design follow up hits from RNAi screens. Frank Bucholz
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture System biology of apoptosis. Inna Lavrik
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Regulatory networks characterize cellular identities. Franz Josef Müller
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Implication of pharmacogenomics in drug therapy – chances and limitations. Ingolf Cascorbi
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Polymorphisms in innate immune receptors in transplantation medicine. Ernst Holler
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Molecular diagnostics in leukemia – a guide to individualized treatment? Martin Schrappe
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Genomic insights into solid tumors – from bench to bedside. Roman Thomas
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture Gene therapy in cardiovascular disease. Norbert Frey
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Rationale drug design in important pathways – the story of gp130. Stefan Rose–John
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers
19.30 Evening–Lecture Genetics risk map of inflammatory bowel disease. Christoper Mathew


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Review Predictive value of DTC tests and their usefulness. Cecile Janssens
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Ethics in biobankings / Informed consent. Michael Krawczak
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Enabling responsible public genomics. Daniel Vorhaus
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture Community genetics – from bench to bedside use of research results in clinical genetics. Ulf Kristofferson
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture Public health economics and genetics. Wolf Rogowski
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Genes: ethical dimensions of prediction, prevention and personalization. Norbert Paul
16.00 – 16.30 Break    
16.30 – 17.30 Round table   All Speakers


8.50 – 9.00 Introduction    
9.00 – 9.45 Lecture Endoplasmatic reticulum stress and inflammation. Arthur Kaser
9.45 – 10.30 Lecture Tumor models in laboratory animals. Manolis Pasparakis
10.30 – 11.00 Break    
11.00 – 11.45 Lecture Gene function annotation using various mutagenesis strategies. Ralf Kühn
11.45 – 12.30 Lecture The German Mouse Clinic – running an open access mouse clinic. Valerie Gailus–Durner
12.30 – 14.30 Lunch    
14.30 – 15.15 Lecture Combining provocation with transgenic models – an immunological perspective. Massimo Fantini
15.15 – 16.00 Lecture Molecular population genetics and wild mice as tools to understanding the evolution of disease genes. John Baines
16.00 – 16.30 Closing Remarks   Philip Rosenstiel