Finestone Laboratory Meetings and Presentations 2004/2005

Meetings & Presentations 2004/2005

KEN DEWAR
WILLIAM D. FOULKES
THOMAS HUDSON
KENNETH MORGAN
DAVID ROSENBLATT
PATRICIA N. TONIN

November 9, 2004

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

Key Speaker for Genome Canada

Title: Mammalian Comparative Genomics

May 20, 2004

Graduate Student Research Day, McGill University
Keynote Speaker
Title: I have only 50 % of my mother’s genes, yet am 98 % identical to a chimpanzee

WILLIAM D. FOULKES

October 7, 2004

17ieme entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier

Crowne Plaza Hotel, Montreal, Quebec

Title: Exons, Introns, Enhancers, Deletions and Founders: an overview of HNPCC in Quebec Oncogenetics: Achievements and Challenges

November 23, 2004

MUHC Clinical and Research Seminar

McIntyre Building, McGill University

Title: Clinicopathological features of Hereditary Breast Cancer: Ten years on Meakins Auditorium

November 25, 2004

Centre intégré de lutte contre le cancer de la Montérégie, Réseau Cancer Montérégie, Hôtel Gouverneur Île Charron, 2405 Île Charron, Longueuil, Quebec
Title: Survol sur la génétique et la prise en charge du cancer colorectal héréditaire

THOMAS HUDSON

July 1, 2004	Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, France Invited Speaker Title: International HapMap Project-application to Asthma
July 2, 2004	Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Invited Speaker Title: Regulatory Genetics
July 18, 2004	12th International Congress of Immunology and 4th Annual Conference of FOCIS, Montreal, Quebec Title: Genetic Dissection of Immune Diseases Using Genomic Technologies
July 21, 2004	GEN Virtual Seminars, Montreal, Quebec Moderator Title: Multiplexed, Whole-Genome Genotyping
August 3, 2004	Peptide Receptors Meeting, Montreal, Quebec Special Lecturer Title: A Genomic View of Asthma: From Haplotypes to an Orphan G-Protein-Coupled Receptor
September 27, 2004	PACGENE Consortium Steering Committee Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland Guest Speaker Title: SNPs, Haplotypes and Complex Diseases
October 2, 2004	Student Bioethics Conference, McGill University, Montreal Main Speaker Title: Impact of the Human Genome Project,
October 6-7, 2004	BioContact Quebec Symposium, Quebec City Invited Speaker Title: Genome Quebec: Goals and Achievements
October 7, 2004	4^th World Conference of Science Journalists, Montreal Invited Speaker Title: The Genetic Basis of Common diseases: New Research Paradigm Today – New Clinical Paradigms tomorrow?
October 27-29, 2004	The American Society of Human Genetics 54^th Annual Meeting, Toronto Invited Speaker Title: Bridging Haplotypes and Common Diseases
October 29, 2004	The American Society of Human Genetics Special Symposium, Toronto Invited Speaker Title: Bridging Haplotypes and Common Diseases The Human Genome Project in Medicine: A Joint Canadian- U.S. Perspective
November 11, 2004	Professionnal Career Pathways Workshop, Montreal Plenary Speaker Title: Medical and Ethical Issues in Genome Projects. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
November 18, 2004	New Avenues in ARSACS Research, Montreal Moderator Title: From Genes to Therapy
November 20, 2004	Congrès de parti libéral du Québec, Montreal Panelist Title: Dans le secteur des nouvelles technologies: l’avenir, c’est maintenant qu’on y pense
November 24 & 25, 2004	National Genomics and Proteomics Symposium, Vancouver, British Columbia Invited Speaker Title: The One Billion Genotype Problem
November 26, 2004	Séminaire en visioconférence Centre de Recherche, CHUM, Montreal Guest Speaker Title: La carte HapMap et ses applications aux maladies complexes
December 2-3, 2004	Symposium GÎ³DS, Éthique, Environnement, Économie - Genétique Droit Société, Montréal, Québec Discours d’ouverture Title: Le contexte national et international de la recherche en génétique et en génomique
December 6-8, 2004	Takeda Science Foundation, Osaka, Japan Guest Speaker Title: Mapping Regulatory Variance in the Human Genome
January 17, 2005	Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal Invited Speaker Title: Bridging Haplotypes and Common diseases
January 25, 2005	Genome Sciences Seminar Series, University of Washington, Seattle Invited Speaker Title: Mapping Regulatory Variants in the Human and Mouse Genomes
January 31, 2005	Conference on Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals (cPMP2005), Montreal Chairperson Title: The Next Frontier
February 7, 2005	International Biobank and Cohort Studies Meeting, Atlanta Invited Speaker Title: The Cart@gene Project
February 12, 2005	Advances in Genome Biology and Technology& Automation in Mapping and Sequencing (AGBT & AMS) Annual Meeting, Marco Island Invited Speaker Title: Towards a Map of Regulatory Polymorphisms in the Human Genome.
March 18, 2005	FACT Conference, Med Summit, Mont Royal Centre, Montreal Invited Speaker Title: Novel Genomic Approaches to Study Cancer Predisposition
April 7-10, 2005	CGDN Annual Scientific meeting, Orford, Quebec Invited Speaker Title: Science and Sensitivity
April 11, 2005	BioFusion 2005, Atlanta, U.S.A. Invited Speaker Title: Coming to Grips with the Genetics of Common Diseases
April 20, 2005	Career Day, Selwyn House School, Westmount Invited Speaker Title: Careers in Science and Medicine
April 22, 2005	Congrès annuel de l’Association des Pédiatres du Québec, Mont Royal Centre, Montreal Invited Speaker Title: L’impact de la génomique pour les maladies génétiques complexes (exemple : asthme)
April 26, 2005	BioMed 2005, Département de sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal Invited Speaker Title: Projet HapMap International
May 5, 2005	National Assembly, Quebec City, Quebec Invited Panel Speaker Allocution, Dans le cadre des consultations sur la Politique du medicament, Commission des Affaires socials.
May 11-15, 2005	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses, Cold Spring Harbor Organizer Title: The Biology of Genomes
May 30, 2005	Immunology/Allergy Rounds Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal Title: The Genetics of Asthma
June 8-9, 2005	2005 Symposium: Infection, Immunity and Health University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Title: Quantitative biology approaches to immunity: building a haplotype map for humans

KENNETH MORGAN

November 1-2, 2004

2004 Canadian Multigenerational Birth Defect Cohort

Meeting of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institutes of Genetics, Population and Public Health, and Human Development, Child and Youth Health.

Toronto, Ontario

Participant

November 4, 2004

Scientific Advisory Board meeting for the Genome

Canada/Genome Quebec, Regulatory Genetics project.

Montreal, Quebec

Participant

January 18-19, 2005

MITACS Biomedical Workshop Program

Montreal, Quebec

Participant

DAVID ROSENBLATT

April 16 - 17, 2004	Scientific Retreat of Research Centre, Ste-Justine Children’s Hospital Delta Hotel, Montreal, Quebec Title: Screening in the age of genomic medicine
May 13 – 15, 2004	Workshop on Genetics and Psychiatry, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal The View from Medical Genetics Title: Reality in Wonderland-the role of the medical geneticist
July 31-August 5, 2004	FASEB Summer Research Conference Snowmass, Aspen, CO Co-Chaired: Folic Acid, Vitamin B₁₂ and One Carbon Metabolism Meeting
September 27, 2004	The Power of Genealogy National Council of Jewish Women of Canada Gelber Conference Centre, Montreal, Quebec Moderator Title: The Medical Value of Knowing Our Family History
October 1-2, 2004	Student Bioethics Conference McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
October 26 –30, 2004	54^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics Toronto, Ontario
November 24-25, 2004	External Reviewer of Department of Medical Genetics University of British Columbia
January 14, 2005	MUHC-RI Genetics Axis and McGill Department of Human Genetics Seminar Title: Mutation analysis in classical methylmalonic aciduria Montreal Children’s Hospital
March 6 – 9, 2005	Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders Asilomar, CA
March 16 – 17, 2004	Genetic Testing for Rare Diseases Dallas, TX