Scientific Secretary


MAIN TOPICS
  • Evolution of Human Genetics
  • Cancer Genetics
  • Multifactorial Disorders
  • Chromosomal Disorders ( Flow Charts in Diagnostic Approach; new Technologies in diagnosis)
  • Neurogenetics and Neurobiology
  • Prenatal Diagnosis and PGD
  • Genetic Counselling
  • Planning of Genetic Research
  • Biochemical Genetics
  • Pharmacogenetics
  • Quality Standardization in Laboratories and Patenting
  • Ethics and Law
  • Course : How to clone a gene?
MAY 5th, 2008, Monday MAY 6th, 2008, Tuesday MAY 7th, 2008, Wednesday MAY 8th, 2008, Thursday MAY 9th, 2008, Friday


MAY 5th, 2008, Monday
HAll A HAll B
16:00-17:30
Education session: 1
Genetic counselling

Genetic counselling for complex familial cases (interactive)
Adnan YÜKSEL / Gönül OGUR /
Tahsin YAKUT
Genetic counselling in patological ultrasonographic findings and fetal pathology (interactive)
Ferda PERÇİN / Serdar CEYLANER / Beyhan TÜYSÜZ
18:00-20:00 Education session: 2 Dysmorphology
Minor anomalies leading to diagnosis in dsymorphology (interactive)
Hülya KAYSERİLİ / Memnune YÜKSEL APAK / Ferda PERÇİN
The syndromes that medical geneticist has to know? Consensus for diagnostic criteria / follow-up protocols
Özgür ÇOĞULLU / Sevim BALCI
21:00-22:30   Education session (discussion)
How to organize laboratory tests for rare disorders?
Nursel ELÇİOĞLU / Hülya KAYSERİLİ
How to plan research at a clinical setting?
Fusun DÜZCAN / Ferda ÖZKINAY
How to plan educational courses /workshops?
Ajlan TÜKÜN / Feride ŞAHİN /
Ahmet DURSUN / Uğur ÖZBEK
MAY 6th, 2008, Tuesday
Hall A Hall B
09:00- 13:00
Registration Education session: 3
Mitochondrial diseases

Mitochondrial DNA and its pathology
Sıtkı ÖZTAŞ
Mitochondrial diseases: case discussions
Mine ÇALIŞKAN
Education session: 4
Neurologic / Muscular disorders

Neurologic examination; how does it support the diagnosis?
Adnan YÜKSEL
Genetic approach to muscular diseases
Piraye SERDAROĞLU
13:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30 Course: How to clone a disease causing gene? (Session 1)
Nurten AKARSU / Tayfun ÖZÇELİK
 
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:30 Course: How to clone a disease causing gene? (Session 2)
Nurten AKARSU / Tayfun ÖZÇELİK
18:00-18:30 OPENING CEREMONY
Chaired by : Güven LÜLECİ
 
18:30-19:30 CONFERENCE
A genomic view of human history
Mary-Claire KING
 
19:30-21:30 Welcome Reception  
MAY 7th, 2008, Wednesday
Hall A Hall B
09:00-09:45 Ergül Tunçbilek Session
CONFERENCE

Fragile X syndrome: from diagnostic applications to pathomechanisms
Jean Louis MANDEL
 
09:45-10:30 CONFERENCE
Cellular plasticity in the Drosophila nervous system
Angela GIANGRANDE
 
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 Şükran Taçoy Session:
Approach to etiopathogenesis of MR/MCA cases

Differential diagnosis of non syndromic mental retardation
Koray BODUROĞLU
Algorthyms leading to the definite diagnosis of sendromic mental retardation
Derya ERÇAL
The molecular karyotyping technology and its application in the diagnosis of patients with mental retardation and other congenital malformation conditions
Joris VELTMAN
12:30-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-14:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM (Roche Diagnostics)
14:00-16:00 Session: The role of cytogenetic and molecular cytogenetics methods in diagnosis
Genomic variation: a continuum from SNPs to chromosome aneuploidy
Orsetta ZUFFARDI
MLPA analysis and subtelomeric FISH methodology for cryptic subtelomeric regions
Beyhan DURAK
Evaluation of marker chromosomes
Birsen KARAMAN
Neocentric marker chromosomes and their effects on the phenotype
Dilek AKTAŞ

Oral presentations: Cytogenetics/ molecular cytogenetics
Session: Immunogenetics
T cell signaling and immune system pathologies
Batu ERMAN
The role of host genetics in respiratory system diseases for different pathogens
Ferda ÖZKINAY
Model for a complex genetic disorder: Behcet’s Disease
Ahmet GÜL
Transcriptional regulation of MHC genes and autoimmune diseases
Zeynep SERCAN

Oral presantations: Immunogenetics
16:00-19:00 Social program/Site visits
Tour 1 - Çanakkale martyrdom
Tour 2 – Troy / Assos ( ancient sites)
 
MAY 8th, 2008, Thursday
Hall A Hall B
08:10-08:50
Meet the experts
Problems arising in molecular diagnostic testing
Engin YILMAZ / Serpil ERASLAN
Meet the experts
Diagnostic approaches for the cases with ambiguous genitalia
Gönül OĞUR / Abdullah BEREKET
09:00-09:45 CONFERENCE
The beginnings of medical genetics: Lessons from the past for the future
Peter S. HARPER
 
09:50-10:30 Session: Genetics of complex disorders
High resolution genome analysis and psychosis
Nurten AKARSU
Genetics of idiopathic epilepsy
Uğur ÖZBEK
Genetics and autism
Betül BAKKALOĞLU
 
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 Oral presentations : Cancer genetics Oral presentations : Clinical genetics
12:30-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-14:00 Satellite symposium (Affymetrix)
14:00-15:30 CONFERENCE
Genomic analysis of inherited breast and ovarian cancer
Mary-Claire KING
CONFERENCE
Management of familial cancers
Daniela TURCHETTI
 
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-17:30 Session: Molecular biology of cancer

Genes effected by BRCA1 expression and gene expression profiles in breast cancer tumours
Işık YULUĞ
Epigenetic disregulation mechanisms leading to DNA hypomethylation in cancer
Ali GÜRE
Gene patenting and licensing: beyond the Myriad case
Gert MATHIJS
Session: Therapeutic approaches to cancer in the genome era
High throughput analysis for the identification of molecular markers in cancer research
Hilal ÖZDAĞ
Targeting chromosomal translocation products in cancer therapy
Aykut ÜREN
Personalized / individualized treatment modalities and follow-up of cancer patients
Ahmet DEMİRKAZIK
17:30- 18:00 Retirement Ceremony  
19:30 GALA DINNER  
MAY 9th, 2008, Friday
Hall A Hall B
08:10-08:50
Meet the experts
Problems encountered in diagnostic cytogenetic testing
Sevilhan ARTAN / Sibel KARAÜZÜM
Meet the experts
Diagnostic pitfalls in skeletal dysplasias
Beyhan TÜYSÜZ / Yasemin ALANAY
09:00-09:45 CONFERENCE
Genetic services: the challenge of disseminating the appropriate information
Ségolène AYMÉ
09:50-10:30 CONFERENCE
Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation: a rapidly expanding group of inborn errors of metabolism
Gert MATHIJS
 
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 Sesssion: Gene cloning strategies in rare diseases
The genetic basis of distal arthrogryposes
Reha TOLUN
Mutations in LRP2, encoding the multiligand receptor megalin, cause Donnai-Barrow syndrome
Sibel KANTARCI
Clinical and genetic approaches to neuronal migration anomalies
Gökhan UYANIK
12:30-13:15 LUNCH
13:15-14:00 SATELLITE MEETING
14:00-15:00 Session: Biochemical Genetics
Diagnosis, algorthyms and high resolution technologies in metabolic disorders
Ali DURSUN
Biochemical analysis of lysosomal diseases during prenatal and postnatal periods
Alan COOPER
Session: Prenatal diagnosis / Preimplantation Genetics
Role of biochemical screening tests in prenatal diagnosis
Seher BAŞARAN
Alternative methods in diagnosis of chromosomal aneuploidies: interphase FISH / QF-PCR
Hüseyin ONAY
PGD: Update of clinical modalities
Muhterem BAHÇE
15:00-16:00 Oral presentations: Molecular and biochemical pathology of diseases Oral presentations : Prenatal diagnosis / Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
16:00-16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30-17:30 CONFERENCE
Expanding the phenotypic and molecular spectrum of limb malformation syndromes
Bernd WOLLNIK
Awards ceremony
Closing remarks
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