The Genetics Society 2010 Spring Meeting

Mouse Genetics: Think Globally, Act Locally

Programme

10.00 Registration and coffee

10.30 Welcome

Session 1 Chair: Anne Ferguson Smith

10.35 Bill Skarnes. - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
"A conditional knockout resource for genome-wide analysis of mouse gene function"

11.10 Emma Whitelaw - Queensland Institute for Medical Research
"An ENU screen for modifiers of epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse"

11.45 The Balfour Lecture: Andrew Jackson - MRC Human Genetics Unit
"Disorders of the human brain: Genetics and function"

12.30 Lunch

12.30-12.50 Genetics Society AGM

Session 2 Chair: Ian Jackson

1.25 Kathy Cheah - University of Hong Kong
"Genetic and genomic analyses of chondrocyte adaptation to ER stress"

2.00 Lizzy Fisher - Institute of Neurology, UCL
"An unusual mouse modelling aspects of Down Syndrome"

2.35       David Adams - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
             "The sequence and analysis of 17 mouse genomes"

3.10       Gary Churchill - The Jackson Laboratory
             "Genome-wide maps of identity by descent in the laboratory mouse "

3.45 Coffee/Tea break

4.10 Jane Hurst Liverpool University
"Title to be announced"

4.45 Genetics Society Medal Lecture: Steve Brown - MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit
"Realising the potential of mouse disease models: the genetics of Otitis Media - from pathway to therapy"

5.30 Close and wine reception