First International
SNiPomics-2009 Meeting
On
‘Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, Genotyping & Copy Number Variation towards Personalized Medicine’
July 13-14, 2009

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USA

“A Unique Theme to Combine genome-wide discovery and genomic variation with Personalized Medicine”

Scientific Organizing Committee:

Krishnarao Appasani, PhD., MBA (Chair)
Founder & CEO
GeneExpression Systems, Inc. Waltham, MA USA

Topics or Highlights of the Meeting:

Genome-wide Disease Associations
SNP Hybrid Arrays & Mapping Studies
Copy Number & Structural Variations
Genome Variation & Allele-specific Gene Expression
Haplotype Mapping & Variome Projects
Comparative Genomic hybridization
Global Variation in the human Genome
SNP Genotyping and real-rime PCR
Disease-associated SNPs & Disease causing variants
Disease Genetics and Diagnostics

AGENDA/SPEAKERS

Monday, July 13, 2009

7:00 A.M: Registration Open
8.00 AM – 6.00 PM Scientific Sessions

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

7:30 A.M: Registration Open
8.00 AM – 5.00 PM Scientific Sessions
5:00 PM Meeting Concludes

Other Speaker:

	Norbert Hubner, MD. Professor Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin, Germany Title: TBA
	Edith Pfister PhD Student in the Lab of Dr. Neil Aronin University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA, USA Title: RNAi targeting of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the Huntingtin gene
	Kornelia Polyak, M.D.,Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA Title: TBA
	Pardis Sabeti, M.D. D.Phil. Assistant Professor Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Cambridge, MA USA Title: TBA
	Charles Lee, Ph.D., FACMG Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School & Clinical Cytogeneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA, USA Title: TBA
	Jin Billy Li, PhD. Postdoc fellow in Dr. George Church Lab Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics Boston, MA, USA Title: TBA
	Tomi Pastinen, MD., PhD. Assistant Professor of Human Genetics McGill University and Genome Quebec Montreal, Quebec, Canada Title: Genome-wide discovery of cis-regulatory variation in human
	Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health Framingham, MA, USA Title: Genetics of Atrial fibrillation focusing on SNP analysis
	Dr. Steve Carroll Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Cambridge, MA USA

More Speakers will be listed Soon !!!

Exhibitors are welcome to reserve their booth space early!

Please contact if you are interested in speaking in the scientific or Technology workshops of this meeting.

GeneExpression Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 540170
Waltham, MA 02454 USA
Tel: (781) 891-8181
Fax: (781) 891-8234
E-mail: Genexpsys@expressgenes.com
www.expressgenes.com

Poster Abstract Submission by May 30, 2009