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American Society of Human Genetics, Human Genome
Organisation and Nature Publishing Group present
The Genetics and Genomics of
Infectious Diseases 2009
Classical and emerging infectious diseases, viral pandemics, and drug-resistant pathogens
remain challenges to human health. However, contemporary advances in genetics and
genomic technologies provide new approaches to understanding and combating these
diseases. ASHG and HUGO are partnering with NPG to organize an international conference
to discuss how the genomes, unique biologies, and interactions of both host and pathogen
are being revealed using novel genomic technologies, and how this information can and will
translate into disease management and therapies. This conference will engage basic and
clinical scientists, including human geneticists, genome scientists, computational biologists,
and experts in pathogenic microbial agents to chart the effects of genomics on questions in
global infectious disease management.
March 21-24, 2009 Stephen O’Brien (National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA)
Ritz Carlton Millenia, Singapore Albert Osterhaus (Erasmus Medical College, The Netherlands)
Malik Peiris (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
SPEAKERS Jacques Ravel (University of Maryland, USA)
Laurent Abel (Université Paris - Descartes, France) Yijun Ruan (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Martin Blaser (New York University Langone Medical Center, USA) Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University, USA)
Alexis Borisy (CombinatoRx, USA) Cameron Simmons (University of Oxford, UK)
Alan Cowman (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Rotem Sorek (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Research, Australia) Patrick Tan (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
Daniel Falush (University College Cork, Ireland) Nick White (Wellcome Trust Mahidol University, Thailand)
Neil Ferguson (Imperial College London, UK)
Don Ganem (University of California- San Francisco, USA) ORGANIZERS
Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford, UK) Aravinda Chakravarti (American Society for Human Genetics, USA)
Eddie Holmes (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Jeremy Farrar (Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Viet Nam)
Yoshihiro Kawaoka (University of Wisconsin, USA) Louisa Flintoft (Nature Reviews Genetics, UK)
Adel Mahmoud (Princeton University, USA) Chris Gunter (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, USA)
Partha Majumder (Indian Statistical Institute, India) Edison Liu (Human Genome Organisation, Singapore)
Alex Matter (Novartis, USA) Magdalena Skipper (Nature, UK)
To register and for more information visit: www.nature.com/natureconferences/ggid2009
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