Calendar

January 2010

14

READDNA: Workshop on Tools for DNA sequencing and resequencing in diagnostics

Germany

14 - 15	BASIC WORKSHOP - Accreditation for beginners, how to implement ISO 15189 (WP1.8)	United Kingdom
	Compare and share experiences of implementing and working with quality systems. Examine cases of concrete situations related to quality processes like non-conformities, reporting and training.

28 - 30

5th French Meeting on Human and Medical Genetics

France

28 - 29	From SISSA (Italy): bid-workshop brains in dialogue on genetic testing	Italy
	SISSA's bid-brains in dialogue team, together with Prof Gasparini of IRCCS-Burlo/University of Trieste, is pleased to announce the second bid-workshop brains in dialogue on genetic testing which will take place on 28-29 January 2010 in Trieste, Italy.

February 2010

8	Public Health Genomics Symposium (PHGen)	Belgium
	How to correctly introduce genome-based knowledge in the Belgian health care services?

26

The Bacteriophage in Biology, Biotechnology and Medicine

United Kingdom

28

Rare Disease Day 2010

World Wide

March 2010

1

Improving Immunohistochemistry - 2010

United Kingdom

1 - 3

Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry: TACBAC

United Kingdom

2 - 4

21st Annual Meeting of the German Society of Human Genetics together with the Austrian Society of Human Genetics and the Swiss Society of Medical Genetics

Germany

5

Regulatory T cells in inflammatory and infectious diseases: new horizons for old friends

United Kingdom

12

Recombinant vaccines – Strategies for candidate discovery and vaccine delivery

United Kingdom

13 - 14

The Third Pan Arab Human Genetics Conference

United Arab Emirates

18 - 19	Quality in the spotlight - Redefine quality	Belgium
	The 14th edition of this meeting will focus on your particular situation. We will develop a quality strategy that fits your laboratory!

19

1st Central-Eastern European Symposium on Free Nucleic Acids in the Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis

Hungary

22 - 23	Approaching accreditation of a PGD centre	United Kingdom
	ESHRE Campus symposium organised by the ESHRE Special Interest Group “Reproductive Genetics” in collaboration with EuroGentest

24 - 27

Genomic Disorders 2010 – Copy number and sequence variation in Mendelian and complex traits

United Kingdom

April 2010

15 - 16	ATELIER D’INITIATION - Accréditation dans les laboratoires de génétique	France
	Comparer et partager les expériences de mise en place des systèmes qualité et travailler sur des situations concrètes en rapport avec la qualité, par exemple à propos de non-conformité, de comptes-rendus de résultats ou de formation du personnel. Les principales difficultés rencontrées dans le management du système de qualité et les moyens de préparer l’accréditation selon la norme ISO 15189 seront par ailleurs discutés au travers d’activités interactives en petits groupes, animées par des experts.

15

Advances in cell culture technology

United Kingdom

21 - 24

ISSVA (International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies)

Belarus

22 - 25

1st World Congress on Controversies in Cryopreservation of Stem Cells, Reproductive Cells, Tissue and Organs

Spain

23 - 24

6th International Meeting on Cryptic Chromosomal Rearrangements and Genes in Mental Retardation and Autism

Italy

May 2010

5 - 8

10th International Congress Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis 2010

France

10 - 14	3rd Human Variome Project Meeting - Implementation and Integration	France
	UNESCO

15 - 17	BIT Life sciences' 1st Annual World Congress of Immunodiseases and Therapy 2010 (WCIT-2010)	China
	WCIT is a focused conference to present and deliberate the advances in immunology, which is significant, timely and important to the health of humanity. The well selected topics cover across disciplinary breaking, from concept to therapy.

17 - 18	WORKSHOP - Towards accreditation: Managing the human side of change (WP1.8)	Belgium
	This workshop will tackle the human side of change. How do you motivate the lab to implement a new quality system? How do you manage the human side of this process of change?

18 - 21

Human Genome Organisation Annual Meeting 2010

France

June 2010

3 - 5

4th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD)

USA

7

The 13th International Congress on Twin Studies

South Korea

11 - 12	BASIC WORKSHOP - Validation of diagnostic tests in clinical molecular genetics (WP1.8 - WP1.7)	Sweden
	Meet experienced people in this field, learn about regulatory requirements (ISO 15189) or how to design a proper validation plan for new molecular genetic tests.

11 - 12	BASIC WORKSHOP - internal audit (WP 1.8)	Sweden
	The aim of this workshop is to train the participants to efficiently and effectively direct and/or participate in a laboratory audit in the spirit of peer review and education. Participants are motivated to exchange ideas and learn from each other and the experts, by general presentations, role play, video fragments and group discussions.

12 - 15	ESHG 2010	Sweden
	European Society Of Human Genetics Conference 2010

13

Workshop Quality Control: Workshop on recent progress and developments in QAu in Europe.

Sweden

13	EuroGentest Satellite meeting: Innovative Techniques in Genome Diagnostics	Sweden
	EuroGentest invites you to attend our meeting on new and emerging techniques in diagnostics.

13	CASE STUDIES - on quality assurance and quality control issues in genetic testing laboratories (WP1.8)	Sweden
	Discuss in small groups about concrete situations related to quality processes in genetic testing labs. Meet colleagues faced with similar challenges and problems.

16	Best practice meeting: Neurofibromatosis Type 1	United Kingdom
	Joint CMGS/EMQN Laboratory Best Practice meeting for Neurofibromatosis Type 1. EMQN and EuroGentest are offering travel awards for the meeting.

20 - 23

EMBO | EMBL Symposia: Human Variation: Cause and Consequence

Germany

22 - 25	ENGAGE/CSG/P3G Summer Institute: ”Genetics, Ethics and Clinical Translation”	The Netherlands
	The ENGAGE Consortium in collaboration with CSG and P3G organizes a Summer Institute to discuss the ethical, legal and societal implications related to the translation of epidemiological results from genetic and genomic research to clinical practice.

22 - 25

BIT Life Sciences’ 3rd World Cancer Congress (WCC)

Singapore

23 - 25

BIT’s 2nd Annual World Congress of Biosoft ( Biosoft )

China

25 - 28

BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of NeuroTalk-2010

Singapore

27 - 30

The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing

USA

July 2010

5 - 6	New and Developing Technologies for Genetics Diagnostics	United Kingdom
	By National Genetics Reference Laboratory (Wessex)

11 - 14

15th International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy

The Netherlands

31 - 3

BIT’s 1st World Congress of Virus and Infections-2010

South Korea

August 2010

25 - 27

Capita Selecta in Complex Disease Analysis (CSCDA 2010)

Belgium

30 - 5

Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis

Italy

September 2010

12

Health care rationing Conference

The Netherlands

18 - 22

10th Course in Genetic Counselling in Practice

Italy

23 - 25

Course in Eye Genetics

Italy

26 - 29

The European Conference on Computational Biology

Belgium

October 2010

1 - 5

Meeting of the Latin American Genetics Association (ALAG)

Chile

5 - 7	HUGO-IABCR Congress 2010 - Genomics, Biology and Breast Cancer Treatment	Singapore
	This conference jointly organised between the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and the International Association of Breast Cancer Research (IABCR) focuses on the intersection of Genomics , Biology, and Breast Cancer Treatment.

8 - 9	BASIC WORKSHOP - Accreditation for beginners, how to implement ISO 15189 (WP1.8)	Slovenia
	Compare and share experiences of implementing and working with quality systems. Examine cases of concrete situations related to quality processes like non-conformities, reporting and training.

16 - 20

3rd Course in Integration of Cytogenetics, Microarrays and Massive Sequencing

Italy

23 - 26	BIT’s 8th Annual Congress of International Drug Discovery Science and Technology (IDDST)	China
	Supporting Systems for Major Innovative Drugs

25 - 27

BIT’s 1st Annual World Congress of Nanomedicine 2010

China

November 2010

2 - 6

Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics

USA

10 - 12

BIT Life Sciences' 1st Annual Tetra-Congress of MolMed-2010

China

25 - 26	ATELIER - Comment mesurer et améliorer la qualité? La revue de direction et les contrôles de qualité interne et externe. (WP1.8)	France
	Vous souhaitez comprendre ce qu’est une revue de direction, mettre en place des contrôles internes de qualité ou participer à des évaluations externes de la qualité ?

26 - 27	Cyprus Society of Human Genetics - 2nd International conference	Cyprus
	Topics: new treatments for genetics diseases, hereditary kidney diseases, PGD, genetic counselling, ethical issues and molecular diagnostics

December 2010

7 - 9	BIT’s 2nd Annual International Congress of Cardiology	China
	Translational Medicine to Healthcare

13 - 15

Genes & Cancer 2010: 27th annual 'Molecular Biology of Cancer' meeting

United Kingdom

14	EuroGentest Steering Committee Meeting	Belgium
	Members of the Steering Committee were invited personally.

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Updated September 16, 2010