Following on from two highly successful conferences in Prague and Oslo, this conference will bring together world leaders in functional genomics to discuss our current understanding of disease mechanisms, the challenges ahead and the technologies that will lead to novel solutions. Join us and colleagues from all over the world in the beautiful city of Innsbruck situated in the heart of the Austrian Alps.

The conference programme will include plenary speakers covering topics including Genome Variation, Whole Genome Association Studies, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microarrays, Comparative Genomics, RNAi, Oncogenomics, Neurogenomics, Signalling and Networks.

Parallel symposia from 15 EC consortia will cover the areas of Systems Biology, Affinity Proteomics, Microarray Development & Exploitation, Genome Annotation, Lymphangiogenomics, Pathogenic Organisms, Mouse Genome Mutagenesis, T Cells, Biobanking, RNAi, Ageing, Epigenomics, Genomics of Metabolic Syndromes, Lipidomics and Transcriptome Atlas.

Reduced 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:

Ewan Birney (Hinxton)
Patrik Brundin (Lund)
Olli Kallioniemi (Helsinki)
Nico Katsanis (Johns Hopkins)
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh (Uppsala)
Steve McCarroll (Broad Institute)
Mark McCarthy (Oxford)
Mike Snyder (Yale)
Mike Stratton (Cambridge)
Giulio Superti-Furga (Vienna)
Tom Tuschl (Rockefeller)
Mathias Uhlén (Stockholm)
 

Symposia Speakers:
James Adjaye (Berlin)
Kari Alitalo (Helsinki)
Stylianos Antonarakis (Geneva) TBC
Patrick Arbuthnot (Johannesburg)
Gottfried Baier (Innsbruck)
Andrea Ballabio (Naples) TBC
Denise Barlow (Vienna)
Jordan R. Bertrand (Marseille)
Soren Brunak (Copenhagen)
Andrea Califano (Columbia University) TBC
Gianni Cesareni (Rome)
Paul Flicek (Hinxton)
Bertrand Friguet (Paris)
Toby Gibson (Heidelberg)
Stathis Gonos (Athens)
Matthias Gstaiger (Zürich)
John Hancock (Harwell)
Ingrid Hedenfalk (Lund) TBC
Martin Hrabé de Angelis (Munich)
Vivek Iyer (Hinxton)
Pidder Jansen-Duerr (Innsbruck)
Allan Jones (Seattle) TBC
Niki Karagianni (Vari)
Alexander Karlas (Berlin)
Audrey Kauffmann (Hinxton) TBC
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) TBC
Marju Orhho-Melander (Lund)
Leena Peltonen (Hinxton)
Andreas Plueckthun (Zurich)       
Pernille Poulsen (Gentofte) 
Lajos Pusztai (Texas)      
Gerd Schmitz (Regensbourg) TBC
William Skarnes (Hinxton)  
Henk Stunnenberg (Nijmegen)
Janet Thornton (Hinxton)
Christopher Tiele (Dresden) TBC
Anna Tramontano (Rome)
Patrick Trieu-Cuot (Paris)
Marius Ueffing (Munich)
Michael Wakelam (Cambridge)
Christian Wolfrum (Zurich) TBC
Wolfgang Wurst (Munich)
Kurt Zatloukal (Graz)

TBC – to be confirmed