Belgian Society of Human Genetics

Programme
08.30- 09.15: registration (coffee and croissants)

09.15- 09.30: Introduction, Miikka Vikkula (president BeSHG)

09.30 - 10.00: Marcus Pembrey (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK):
Transgenerational responses: a new aspect of human inheritance

10.00 - 10.30: Charles Lee (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA):
Copy number variation in the human genome

10.30 - 11.00: Manfred Kayser (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands):
The human genome sequence and perspectives in forensic genetics

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee

11.30 - 12.30: Selected oral presentations by young investigators
(5 presentations, 12 min each)

12.30 - 13.30: General assembly

13.30 - 15.30: Posters with walking lunch

15.30 - 16.30: Selected oral presentations by young investigators
(5 presentations, 12 min each)

16.30 - 17.00: Klaus Lindpainter (Roche genetics and Roche Center for Medical Genomics, Basel, Switserland)
Pharmacogenomics

17.00 - 17.30: Jean-Jacques Cassiman (K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium):
Personal reflections on the human genome: past, present and future

17.30 - 18.00: Reception - Best Poster Award

More information can be found on the 'BeSHG' website.