Human Genetic Disease: From Model Organism to the Clinic

This meeting will gather together some of the world's leading scientists who have made seminal contributions toward understanding the biological processes underlying human genetic disease using animal models. Areas explored will include: the value of genetic screens in model organisms and in human populations; the elucidation of the cellular, molecular and developmental mechanisms of disease; advances in treatment of these disorders including gene and stem cell therapy approaches.

Scientific organisers
Genetics Society: Lizzy Fisher (ION, UCL) and Andrew Ward (Bath)
BSHG:  Phil Beales (ICH, London), Eamonn Maher (Birmingham) and Andrew Wilkie (WIMM, Oxford)

Speakers:
Robin Ali (University College London, UK)
Kathryn Anderson (Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York)
Han Brunner (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Juan Botas (Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA)
Neal Copeland (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore)
Wofgang Driever (Freiburg, Germany)
Cheryll Tickle (University of Bath, UK)
Jenny Morton (University of Cambridge, UK)
Nadia Rosenthal (EMBL, Monterotondo, Italy)

Featuring:
2008 Genetics Society Medal lecture by Nick Hastie (Edinburgh, UK)

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