Conference Programme
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Monday 7 April 2008 |
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| EBRC Launch | ||
| 10.00 – 12.00 | Main Launch Event (speakers to be confirmed) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch/Exhibition and Posters | Cromdale Hall |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Animal Research – Winning the Debate – Kirk Leech and Corina Hadjiodysseos, Resource Defence Society (RDS), UK | |
| Joint Functional Genomics Session with the ISAFG (Chair: Professor Alan Archibald) | ||
| 14.00 – 14.15 | Welcome Liz Glass (Roslin Institute, UK) David Hume (EBRC, UK) |
Pentland Auditorium |
| 14.15 – 15.00 | Stochasticity and Networks in Genomic Data - Professor John Quackenbush (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health, USA) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 15.00 – 15.45 | Recent Advances in Deciphering the Molecular Basis of Polar Overdominance - Professor Michel Georges (University of Liege, Belgium) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 15.45 – 16.30 | Complex Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Malaria: Lessons from the Mouse - Professor Philippe Gros (McGill University) |
Pentland Auditorium |
| 16.30 – 18.30 | Poster Session with Cheese and Wine | Cromdale Hall |
Tuesday 8 April 2008 |
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| Clinical Veterinary Science/ Animals and Systems (chair: Professor John Oldham) | ||
| 08.30 – 09.00 | A Comparative Approach to Cancer Biology and Therapy - Dr Chand Khanna (Center for Cancer Research,  USA) |
Pentland Auditorium |
| 09:00 – 9:30 | Mapping Complex Traits in the Mouse - Professor Jonathan Flint (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 09:30 – 10.00 | Use of Molecular Data for Genetic Improvement of Performance Under Field Conditions - Dr Jack Dekkers (Iowa State University, USA) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Genetic Improvement of Farm Livestock: New Challenges and New Tools - Professor Geoff Simm (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 10:20 – 10:45 | Coffee/Exhibition and Posters | Cromdale Hall |
| Neuroscience Session (Chair: Dr Nora Hunter) | ||
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Prion Strains and their Propagation - Professor Charles Weissmann (Scripps Florida, USA) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Aggregating Proteins as Molecular Targets in Alzheimer’s and Prion Diseases - Professor Colin Masters (University of Melbourne and Mental Health Research Institute, Australia) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Predicting Host Susceptibility to Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies - Professor Jean Manson, OBE (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 12:05 – 12:25 | Determining the Influence of the Host Immune System on TSE Pathogenesis - Dr Neil Mabbott (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 12:25 – 13:30 | Lunch/Exhibition and Posters | Cromdale Hall |
| Developmental Biology Session (Chair: Helen Sang) | ||
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Molecular Regulation of Normal and Leukaemic Human Haemataopoeitic Stem Cells - Professor Tariq Enver (The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Tumor Educated Macrophages Promote Cancer Progression and Metastasis - Dr Jeff Pollard (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, USA) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | The Chicken Mutant talpid3: from the Tips of the Fingers to the Tip of the Cilia - Dr Megan Davey (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Mechanisma of Initiation of Skeletal Mineralisation During Bone Development - Dr Colin Farquharson (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 15:10 – 15:45 | Coffee/Exhibition and Posters | Cromdale Hall |
| Infection and Immunity Session (Chair: Professor Ivan Morrison) | ||
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Function and Evolution of Macrophage-specific Promoters - Professor David Hume (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 16:15 – 16:45 | Transmission Biology of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: From Host-Pathogen Interactions to Emergency Response - Professor Mark Woolhouse (University of Edinburgh, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 16:45 – 17:15 | Studies on the Tribbles Gene Family in Inflammation - Professor Jonathan Lamb (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 17:15 – 17:45 | Jmjd6 – A Novel Player in Transcriptional Regulation? - Dr Andreas Lengeling (EBRC, UK) | Pentland Auditorium |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Closing remarks | Pentland Auditorium |