Calendar

January 2009

8 - 9	Workshop - Validation of diagnostic tests in clinical molecular genetics (WP1.8 - WP1.7)	Czech Republic
	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.

26 - 27	Protein Evolution: Sequences, Structures and Systems	United Kingdom
	Wellcome Trust and Biochemical Society Focused Meeting

February 2009

6	Workshop Patent Licensing in Medical Biotechnology in Europe in Leuven – February 6, 2009	Belgium
	The Centre is organizing a workshop on February 6, 2009 where the results of the survey on "Patent Licensing in Medical Biotechnology in Europe", will be presented and discussed with experts from industry, university and hospitals.

13

9th annual BeSHG meeting

Belgium

26	Clinical Medicine in the Genome Era	United Kingdom
	An International Symposium to review recent developments and current trends in the applications of genome science and technology to clinical medicine and population health.

March 2009

6 - 8	International Workshop on Genetics, Medical Technologies and Health Policies	Italy
	Organizers : European Genetics Foundation, The Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center and University of Bologna

9 - 11

Genomic Disorders 2009 - Genomic Variation in Health and Disease

United Kingdom

13	Unit 1 WP Leader meeting	Belgium
	A meeting between the unit 1 workpackage leaders

21 - 24	Genetics and Genomics of Infectious Diseases	Singapore
	Organized by The American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG), The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and Nature Publishing Group

21 - 22	Perspectives in Stem Cell Proteomics Training Workshop	United Kingdom
	The training workshop will focus on assisting the researcher to select the most appropriate underlying protein sequence database on which to base peptide identifications.

22 - 23	Perspectives in Stem Cell Proteomics Conference	United Kingdom
	This conference will focus on the current status of proteomics in stem cell research, from reviewing the state of the art in technology, to its potential in understanding of fundamental developmental biology as well as therapeutic implications.

April 2009

1 - 3	20th Conference of the German Society of Human Genetics	Germany
	This conference is jointly organised by Austrian Society of Human Genetics (ÖGH) and Swiss Society of Medical Genetics (SGMG).

1 - 3

V International Workshop on MJD

Portugal

16	ERNDIM Scientific Advisory Board Meeting	France
	Half-yearly assessment and planning of the EQA schemes by advisors for each scheme

16 - 18

1st World Congress on Twin Pregnancy

Italy

17 - 18

5th International Meeting on Cryptic Chromosomal Rearrangements in Mental Retardation and Autism

Italy

17	ERNDIM executive Committee meeting	France
	Best practice development and coordination, accreditation planning

19 - 28	Microarrays: Methods and Applications for Genome Analysis	United Kingdom
	A Wellcome Trust Advanced Course

20 - 21	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?

24 - 25	IV. Dysmorphology days 2009	Turkey
	It will be the IV.meeting that brings together clinical geneticists, dysmorphologists, developmental geneticists, trainees to share their knowledge and experience at a very interactive atmosphere.

25	DNA Day 2009	World Wide
	In April 2003, fifty years after the discovery of the DNA double helix, the Human Genome Project was completed. April 25 is now commemorated internationally as DNA day, a celebration of Genetics and its promises.

26	Rare Diseases and Neonatal Screening: Views of Parents and Patients	Czech Republic
	This workshop is integrated within the "The 6th ISNS European Regional Meeting in Neonatal Screening" conference.

May 2009

5 - 8

Third International Congress of Molecular Medicine

Turkey

14 - 17	8th Balkan Meeting on Human Genetics	Croatia
	Croatian Society of Human Genetics and Croatian Society for Rare Diseases of the Croatian Medical Association are organising this meeting which will be held under the auspices of Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports

18 - 20	New Challenges for Biobanks. Ethics, Law and Governance	Belgium
	On 18, 19 and 20 May 2009 the E.U. funded research project GeneBanc holds the international conference in Leuven Belgium

22 - 23	Workshop - Fulfilling the requirements of ISO 15189 for management review, internal quality control and external quality assessment (WP1.8)	Austria
	Want to learn more on how to do a management review, on how to introduce internal quality controls in the lab or what participating in EQA means?

22 - 23	BASIC Workshop - Accreditation for beginners (WP1.8)	Austria
	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.

23 - 26	ESHG 2009	Austria
	41st European Human Genetics Conference

24	Round table sessions - Case studies on quality assurance and quality control issues in genetic testing laboratories (WP1.8)	Austria
	Discuss in small groups about concrete situations related to quality processes in genetic testing labs. Meet colleagues faced with similar challenges and problems.

25

Satellite meeting: Innovative Techniques in Genome Diagnostics

Austria

28 - 30

5th Course on Genetics and Renal Diseases

Italy

28 - 1	Mutation Detection 2009	Cyprus
	10th International Symposium on Mutations in the Genome

29 - 31

Genetics, Ethics and the Law

USA

29 - 30	International Workshop - Genomic Disorders, Disease-Associated Chromosome Rearrangements and Position Effect	Portugal
	This workshop will join a distinguished group of invited European speakers who will present data and discuss the latest findings and methodologies in this cutting-edge field.

June 2009

4 - 5

1st International Conference on Hyperphagia

USA

17 - 26	Functional Genomics and Systems Biology	United Kingdom
	A Wellcome Trust Advanced Course

18 - 19	Quality & Laboratory Management - A EuroGentest symposium for human genetic testing laboratories	Belgium
	Presentations on quality assurance and accreditation and bringing together people working in diagnostic laboratories are the aims of this new initiative. A EuroGentest Laboratory Quality Award will be presented to a laboratory contributing to the improvement of the awareness of quality managment in genetic testing.

19

Human autoimmune disease: learning from models

United Kingdom

23	Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia best practice meeting for genetic diagnostics	Belgium
	Aim of the meeting is to develop best practice guidelines for the molecular genetic diagnosis of CAH

30 - 1

3rd Mediterranean Medical Genetics Meeting

Turkey

July 2009

3

Efficient cytokine detection: The Way Forward

United Kingdom

4 - 7

7th European Cytogenetics Conference

Sweden

9

Microarray- and deep sequencing-based profiling approaches: the technological evolution continues…

United Kingdom

13 - 14	Epigenomics & Sequencing 2009	USA
	Meeting On ‘Chromatin Methylation to Disease Biology & Theransotics & ‘Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Genotyping & Copy Number Variation towards Personalized Medicine

August 2009

16 - 20

Wellcome Trust School of Human Genomics 2009

United Kingdom

24 - 25	4th Asian Epigenomics Meeting	Singapore
	This conference will feature scientific sessions covering Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Higher-order genome organization, Epigenetics and human diseases and Challenges of epigenetic drug discovery.

31 - 2

British Human Genetics Conference 2009

United Kingdom

September 2009

9 - 11

Genetics 100 Years On

United Kingdom

12 - 15

World Congress on Huntington's Disease

Canada

13 - 16

NAVBO Workshop: Genetics and Genomics of Vascular Disease

USA

17 - 18	HRM workshop: Best Practice in High Resolution Melting Curve Analysis	The Netherlands
	This Workshop will address basic principles of HRM technology and new developments, but will most of all specifically focus on its application in Genome Diagnostic Laboratories.

19 - 24

1st Goldrain Course in Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis

Italy

22 - 23	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.

29	La Qualità nel laboratorio di Citogenetica Medica	Italy
	Corso Sigu/EuroGentest

30	La Qualità nel laboratorio di Citogenetica Medica	Italy
	Corso Sigu/EuroGentest

October 2009

2	Hereditary Deafness (DFNB1) best practice meeting	The Netherlands
	The aim of the meeting is to develop best practice guidelines for the molecular genetic diagnosis of hereditary deafness (DFNB1).

2	La Qualità nel laboratorio di Citogenetica Medica	Italy
	Corso Sigu/EuroGentest

4 - 7	4th International Conference on Birth Defects and Disabilities in the Developing World	India
	The theme of the 4th Conference “Translating Research into Care and Prevention”

14 - 16	3rd International Symposium on Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer	Canada
	Organized by the Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Foundation in collaboration with the Program in Cancer Genetics, McGill University.

15

ELISPOT technology: The latest tricks

United Kingdom

16

Small Scale Bio-production: Beyond the Flask

United Kingdom

20 - 24

59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

USA

22 - 23

ERNDIM annual workshop and DPT meetings

Switzerland

26 - 27	BASIC Workshop - Validation of diagnostic tests in clinical molecular genetics (WP1.8 - WP1.7)	Italy
	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.

26 - 27	10th EPPOSI Workshop on Partnering for Rare Disease Therapy Development	Belgium
	10 years after the Adoption of the EU Orphan Medicines Regulation: Where do we go to?

November 2009

1 - 3	HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Ethics, Law and Society	Switzerland
	Sequencing of individual Genomes: Impact on Society and Ethics

13

Surviving as a Woman in Science

United Kingdom

20

One Medicine: Comparative Aspects of Research and Clinical Diagnosis in Allergic Disease

United Kingdom

20 - 21

Third European Course in Clinical Dysmorphology "What I know Best"

Italy

27

Antimicrobial Peptides: New challenges for Science and Medicine

United Kingdom

December 2009

10 - 11	Conference on Healthcare and Trade	The Netherlands
	The International Conference on Healthcare and Trade will focus on the influence of the law of both the European Union and the World Trade Organization on trade in health services, health insurance services and health goods (pharmaceuticals).

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Updated November 17, 2009