3rd ESF Conference on
Functional Genomics and Disease

October 1-4, 2008

Innsbruck, Austria


    

Reduced Early Registration Fee of EUR 95,- for graduate students
Travel Bursaries Available

Deadlines:


30 May 2008 for abstract submissions - 30 June 2008 for early registration

Plenary Speakers & Topics:

Genome Variation  - Steve McCarroll, Broad Institute 
Whole Genome Association Studies - Mark McCarthy, Oxford 
Proteomics  - Guilio Superti-Furga, Vienna 
Bioinformatics  - Ewan Birney, Hinxton
Microarrays  - Olli Kallionieimi, Helsinki
Comparative Genomics  - Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Uppsala 
RNAi  - Tom Tuschl, Rockefeller
Oncogenomics  - Mike Stratton, Hinxton 
Neurogenomics  - Patrik Brundin, Lund 
Networks  - Mike Snyder, Yale
Signalling - Nico Katsanis, Johns Hopkins
Affinity Proteomics - Mathias Uhlén, Stockholm


Parallel Symposia Topics:

Systems Biology
Affinity Proteomics
Microarrays
Genome Annotation
Lymphangiogenomics
Pathogenic Organisms
Mouse Genome Mutagenesis
T Cells
Biobanking
Transcriptome Atlas
Lipidomics
Metabolic Syndromes
Epigenomics
Ageing
RNAi 

Symposia Speakers:

James Adjaye (Berlin)
Kari Alitalo (Helsinki)
Patrick Arbuthnot (Johannesburg)
Gottfried Baier (Innsbruck)
Andrea Ballabio (Naples)
Denise Barlow (Vienna)
Diego di Bernardo (Naples)
Jordan R. Bertrand (Marseille)
Soren Brunak (Copenhagen)
Gianni Cesareni (Rome)
Paul Flicek (Hinxton)
Bertrand Friguet (Paris)
Jean Gabert (Marseille)
Toby Gibson (Heidelberg)
Stathis Gonos (Athens)
Matthias Gstaiger (Zürich)
John Hancock (Harwell)
John Hohmann (Seattle)
Martin Hrabé de Angelis (Munich)
Vivek Iyer (Hinxton)
Pidder Jansen-Duerr (Innsbruck)
Niki Karagianni (Vari)
Alexander Karlas (Berlin)
Dontscho Kerjaschki (Vienna)
Roman Koerner (Martinsried)
Riitta Lahesmaa (Turku)
Ulf Landegren (Uppsala)


Jonathan Linsquist (Magdeburg)
Per Lindahl (Gothenburg)
Valeri Lyssenko (Lund)
Matthias Maass (Salzburg)
Thomas Meyer (Berlin)
Andres Metspalu (Tartu)
Marju Orhho-Melander (Lund)
Leena Peltonen (Hinxton)
Len Pennacchio (Berkeley)
Andreas Plueckthun (Zurich)       
Pernille Poulsen (Gentofte) 
Lajos Pusztai (Texas)      
Gerd Schmitz (Regensbourg) TBC
William Skarnes (Hinxton)
Therese Sorlie (Oslo)
Henk Stunnenberg (Nijmegen)
Janet Thornton (Hinxton)
Christopher Tiele (Dresden) TBC
Anna Tramontano (Rome)
Patrick Trieu-Cuot (Paris)
Marius Ueffing (Munich)
Gert-Jan Van Ommen (Leiden)
Michael Wakelam (Cambridge)
Christian Wolfrum (Zurich) TBC
Wolfgang Wurst (Munich)
Martin Yuille (Manchester)


TBC – to be confirmed

Participating EC Consortia:

BBMRI - BIOSAPIENS - EMERALD - ENFIN - EUCOMM - EURExpress II - EXGENESIS - HEROIC - LipidomicsNet - LYMPHANGIOGENOMICS - PathoGenoMics - Proteomage - ProteomeBinders - RIGHT - SYBILLA


 For further information on the programme, exhibition and poster sessions, please visit http://www.esffg2008.org/