MEETINGS & PRESENTATIONS 2001/2002

MUNA AL-SAFFAR
KARLENE AUSTRALIE
VALÉRIE DÉSILET
ELEANOR ELSTEIN
WILLIAM D. FOULKES
BRIAN M. GILFIX
CELIA GREENWOOD
THOMAS HUDSON
KENNETH MORGAN
DAVID S. ROSENBLATT
PATRICIA N. TONIN
Symposia and Workshops

 

MUNA AL-SAFFAR

December 4-6, 2001
Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC)
Annual Meeting-Halifax, Nova Scotia

December 7, 2001
Medical Genetics Rounds and Journal Clubs
Montreal Children's Hospital
Title: Huntington disease: new hope for therapeutics


KARLENE AUSTRALIE

October 2001
Annual meeting of American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
San Diego, CA

November, 2001
National Society of Genetic Counsellors (NSGC)-Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.


VALÉRIE DÉSILET

June 2001
Chairman: International Symposium: Fetal Genetics
Postgraduate course: Genetics for the Generalist
Best practice session: Nuchal translucency
57th Annual Clinical Meeting - The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC).
St John's Newfoundland


ELEANOR ELSTEIN

October 17-20, 2001
CDA/CSEM Professional Conference
Edmonton, Alberta
Title: High sensitivity C-reactive protein in asymptomatic Type I diabetic patients


WILLIAM D. FOULKES

January 25, 2001
Opening of Gilda's Club Support Group for Individuals at Genetic Risk of Cancer
Speakers: Romy Litwin, David Rosenblatt, William Foulkes

May 22, 2001
Research Governor's Society First Lecture Series
Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
Jewish General Hospital
Title: Genetics and cancer: prevention, early diagnosis and treatment

June 21, 2001
Canadian Federation of Biological Societies, 44th annual meeting
Ottawa Congress Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Theme: The genetic basis of disease
Title: Treatment issues in hereditary breast cancer

October 22, 2001
Medical Grand Rounds
Sir M. B. Davis
Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
Title: Management of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: prevention, early detection and treatment

October 24, 2001
38th Annual André Aisenstadt Clinical Day
The use of genetic tests in medical diagnosis and treatment
Sir M.B. Davis
Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
Title: Genetic testing for cancer susceptibility

November 28, 2001
CHUV, University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Title: Clinicopathological studies of hereditary breast cancer


BRIAN M. GILFIX

November 28, 2001
Medical Grand Rounds
Royal Victoria Hospital
Title: HIV and hyperlipidemia


CELIA GREENWOOD

April 12, 2001
Seminar
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University
Toronto, Ontario
Title: Methods for using multivariate phenotypic measures in linkage analysis

April 29-29, 2001
Canadian Genetic Diseases Network Annual Scientific Meeting
St. Sauveur, Quebec
Title: Pedigree selection and tests of linkage in a Hutterite pedigree

May 11-12, 2001
Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems,
2nd Annual General Meeting and Exhibition
Montreal, Quebec
Title: Incorporating known disease epidemiology into genetic linkage analysis

June 13-16, 2001
2001 Congress of Epidemiology
Toronto, Ontario
Title: Gene-environment interaction in linkage analysis: A tuberculosis epidemic provides an example of an analytic quandary

October 12-16, 2001
American Society of Human Genetics
San Diego, CA
Title: Regression trees to select maximally linked phenotypes in relative-pair linkage analysis of multivariate traits

December 6, 2001
Osler Seminar Series in Genetics and Immunology
McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance and Montreal Genome Centre
Title: Methods for using multivariate phenotypic measures in linkage analysis


THOMAS HUDSON

April 4, 2001
Allergy Rounds - Ottawa Allergy Club
Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Medical genomics in the post-genome world

April 5, 2001
Meeting organized by Preston Manning with Drs. T.J. Hudson, Hanson & M. Godbout
Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Opportunity to get in on the Biotech Revolution, Question and Answer session for MPs on the science, ethics, and business of the genetics revolution

April 5, 2001
Bacon & Eggheads Breakfast
Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario
Title: Human genome project

April 26-29, 2001
Canadian Genetic Diseases Network Annual Scientific Meeting
St. Sauveur, Quebec
Title: The microarray experiment, technologies: chipping away at the genome

May 1, 2001
Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology: House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Invited Speaker
Title: Roundtable on research and development in biotechnologies

May 9-12, 2001
Genome Mapping, Sequencing & Biology Meeting
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
Participant

May 17, 2001
La Journée Collaboration Biotechnologies au CÉGEP de Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi, Quebec
Title: Les biotechnologies dans l'ère post-génomique

May 30, 2001
Astrazeneca International Symposium Research Area Conference
Montreal, Quebec
Title: Exploiting genome information for the discovery of new therapies
June 4, 2001
Journée de la Recherche, l'Université Laval
Quebec City, Quebec
Title: La génétique humaine dans l=ère post-génomique

June 7, 2001
Combined Endocrine Rounds/Seminar
Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal, Quebec
Title: Medical genomics in the post-genome era

June 15, 2001
VII International Congress of Andrology
Montreal, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: Primer on DNA chips atelier de travail: Le projet de carte

June 20, 2001
Génétique du Québec
Montreal, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: Genomic technologies

June 23, 2001
Young Investigator Award, Plenary talk, Genetics Society of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Guest speaker
Title: The dissection of complex biological problems using genomic approaches

June 24, 2001
Research Society on Alcoholism
Montreal, Quebec
Plenary speaker
Title: The dissection of complex biological problems using genomic approaches

August 5, 2001
XXXII Annual Meeting International Society of PsychoNeuroEndocrinology
Quebec City, Quebec
Invited speaker
Title: Microarray analysis of transcriptomes

August 30, 2001
Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research
Kirkland, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: The dissection of complex biological problems using genomic approaches

September 8, 2001
National Atherosclerosis Forum 2001
New York, N.Y.
Invited speaker
Title: Genome Québec regulatory genomics

September 17, 2001
NRC-Biotechnology Research Institute
Montreal, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: A microarray analysis of tissue-specific transcriptomes following glucocorticoid treatment

October 22, 2001
Annual General Meeting - Montreal General Hospital Foundation
Montreal, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: Genome revolution in Montreal

October 27, 2001
XXVI National Congress of Human Genetics
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Keynote speaker
Title: Human genetics in a post-genome world

November 6, 2001
BioNorth 2001, Ottawa Life Sciences Council
Ottawa, Ontario
Keynote speaker
Title: Human genome project: part deux

November 7, 2001
The 2001 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine Symposium: The John P.Robarts Research Institute
London, Ontario
Invited speaker
Title: Human genetics in a post-genome world

November 20, 2001
St. James Literary Society
Montreal, Quebec
Invited speaker
Title: Sequencing the human genome or the mysteries within

November 27, 2001
R & D Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies: Ethics in the World of the Human Genome
Montreal, Quebec
Invited speaker
Title: Applications of the human genome project

November 29, 2001
12th Annual Symposium of the Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Autonome
Montreal, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: Impact of human genome project on human disease

December 3, 2001
Seminar, Department of Human Genetics
UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA
Title: Genomic approaches to dissect complex biological problems

December 6, 2001
34th Annual Symposium of the Society of Toxicology of Canada
Beaconsfield, Quebec
Guest speaker
Title: DNA microarray

January 17, 2002
Medical Grand rounds
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, TN
Title: Genomic approaches to dissect complex biological problems

January 22, 2002
World Presidents Organization (WPO)
Montreal, Quebec
Invited speaker
Title: Human genetics in a post-genome world

January 30, 2002
Caprion Pharmaceuticals
Montreal, Quebec
Invited speaker
Title: Genomic approaches to dissect complex biological problems


KENNETH MORGAN

September 11, 2001
Steering committee, Genome Canada/CIHR Institute of Genetics & Institute of Population and Public Health, Human Population Genomics/Genetics Workshop
Aylmer, Quebec

September 11, 2001
Genome Canada/CIHR Institute of Genetics & Institute of Population and Public Health, Human Population Genomics/Genetics Workshop
Aylmer, Quebec
Title: Human population genomics initiative

April 17, 2001
Department of Health/MRC/Welcome Trust Protocol Development Workshop for the UK Biomedical Population collection
London, UK.
Invited Participant

May 11-12, 2001
Annual General Meeting - Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS)
Montreal, Quebec
Title: Genetic structure of a founder population


DAVID S. ROSENBLATT

June 17-22, 2001
12th Internation Symposium Chemistry & Biology of Pteridine and Folate Natcher Center, NIH
Bethesda, MD USA
Chaired Session: Folate and Disease - Genetic Aspect
Invited Speaker
Title: Molecular bases of hyperhomocysteinemia due to inborn errors of folate and cobalamin metabolism.

September 20-22, 2001
CSCI/RCPSC Annual Conference - Research Program
Ottawa, Ontario


PATRICIA N. TONIN

April 27, 2001
Le Centre de Recherche de L'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Québec
Topic: Common BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in French Canadian hereditary breast/ovarian cancer families of Quebec

June 6, 2001
Service de Génétique Médicale, Hôpital Sainte-Justine
Montreal, Quebec
Title: BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations analysis in the French Canadian population of Quebec

November 7, 2001
Royal Victoria Oncology Rounds
Title: Update on breast cancer genetics research


Symposia and Workshops

May 15,2001
Abbott Laboratories Basic Course in Cancer
Clinical Research Centre MUHC, Montreal, Quebec
Title: Genetics and Cancer Breast cancer genes and cancer screening

May 31-June 2, 2001
XXVIth Annual Convention of the Quebec Association of Hematologists and Oncologists
Pine Hill, Quebec
Title: Genetics and heredity in breast cancer

June 16-17, 2001
Department of Oncology, McGill Oncology Research Retreat
Title: FRSQ Reseau Cancer, axe cancer du sein et de l'ovaire (ACSO)-FRSQ Cancer Network: breast and ovarian cancers axis



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