E.C.A. 2015 presentations

SATURDAY, 4 JULY 2015
18:00 - 19:00 Plenary Hall Opening Lecture
Chairs: José M. Garcia-Sagredo, Damien Sanlaville

Aneuploidy in humans: new insights into an age-old problem
Terry Hassold (USA)
SUNDAY, 5 JULY 2015
08:30 - 10:30 Plenary Hall Plenary Session: Clinical Cytogenetics
Chairs: Elisabeth Syk-Lundberg, Kamlesh Madan
08:30 - 09:05   CNV on the X Chromosome. Clinical interpretation and pitfalls
Damien Sanlaville (F)
09:05 - 09:40   Can Down syndrome be treated?
Renaud Touraine (F)
11:00 - 12:00 Plenary Hall Plenary Session: 150 Years Since Mendel's Laws (Brno, Natural History Society 1865, published 1866)
Chairs: Pat Heslop-Harrison, Mariano Rocchi
11:00 - 11:30   Mendel, his time, and the rediscovery of his laws
Trude Schwarzacher (GB)
11:30 - 12:00   From genetic to epigenetic inheritance
Marcus Pembrey (GB)
14:40 - 15:45 Plenary Hall Concurrent Session: Chromosomal Rearrangements I
Chairs: Orsetta Zuffardi, Damien Sanlaville
14:40 - 15:05   Engineering human tumour-associated chromosomal translocations with the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system
Sandra Rodriguez Perales (E) Download
15:05 - 15:30   Genome rearrangements in hereditary disorders
Karl Heinimann (CH)
14:40 - 15:45 Com 13 Concurrent Session: Segmental Duplications and Copy Number Variants I
Chairs: Joris Vermeesch, Serge Romana
14:40 - 15:05   Salivary amylase CNV and obesity
Philippe Froguel (GB)
15:05 - 15:30   Polymorphism of the pseudoautosomal region I
Martin A. Mensah (D)
16:15 - 17:20 Plenary Hall Concurrent Session: Fragile Sites and Chromosome Instability
Chairs: Lidia Larizza, Jean-Michel Dupont
16:15 - 16:40   X Fragile Syndrome: an overview
Jean-Louis Mandel (F)
16:40 - 17:05   CINister problems, modeling aneuploidy in the mouse
Floris Foijer (NL)
16:15 - 17:20 Com 13 Concurrent Session: Segmental Duplications and Copy Number Variants II
Chairs: Nicole de Leeuw, Juan Cigudosa
16:15 - 16:40   The growing importance of CNVs: new insights for detection and clinical interpretation
Sebastien Jacquemont (CDN)
16:40 - 17:05   CNV detection by array and NGS in postnatal genome diagnostics
Nicole de Leeuw (NL)
MONDAY, 6 JULY 2015
08:30 - 10:30 Plenary Hall Plenary Session: Tumor cytogenetics I
Chairs: Felix Mitelman, Claudia Haferlach
08:30 - 09:00   Molecular breakdown of AML with EVI1
Ruud Delwel (NL)
09:00 - 09:30   Myelodysplastic syndromes: from 5q- to somatic mutation of RNA splicing machinery
Mario Cazzola (I)
11:00 - 12:15 Plenary Hall Concurrent Session: Chromosomal Rearrangements II
Chairs: Nicole de Leeuw, Franck Pellestor
11:00 - 11:30   Retrotransposable elements, unbalanced translocations and chimerism
Joris Vermeesch (B)
11:30 - 12:00   SD, CNV and complex regions of the human genome
Francesca Antonacci (I)
11:00-12:15 Com 13 Concurrent Session: Animal and Plant Cytogenetics
Chairs: Pat Heslop Harrison, Valerie Fillon
11:00 - 11:30   Chromosome-centric approaches unravel the impact of polyploidization and interspecific hybridization
Jaroslav Dolezel (CZ)
11:30 - 12:00   Functional organization of satellite-less equid centromeres
Elena Giulotto (I)
14:30 - 15:45 Plenary Hall Plenary Session: Impact of Whole Genome Sequencing on Future Diagnostics
Chairs: Eva Klopocki, Juan Cigudosa
14:30 - 15:00   NGS and cytogenetics
Joris Veltman (NL)
15:00 - 15:30   Genetic diagnosis in malignant hemopathies
Claudia Haferlach (D)
16:15 - 17:30 Plenary Hall Concurrent Session: Tumor Cytogenetics II
Chairs: Roberta Vanni, Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand
16:15 - 16:45   Constitutional and somatic rearrangement of chromosome 21 in ALL
Christine J. Harrison (GB) Download
16:45 - 17:15   Developmental disease and cancer: Biological and Clinical Overlaps
Alfonso Bellacosa (USA)
16:15 - 17:30 Com 13 Concurrent Session: Accreditation and Quality Control
Chairs: Harald Rieder, Martine Doco-Fency
16:15 - 16:40   European Standards for Clinical Laboratory Geneticists
Thomas Liehr (D) Download
16:40 - 17:00   Changes in ISO 15189: practical implications
Konstantin Miller (D)
17:00 - 17:30   Mandatory 15189 ISO accreditation for French medical laboratories: how to best reconcile regulatory and normative requirements for cytogenetics?
Philippe Lochu (F) Download
TUESDAY, 7 JULY 2015
09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Hall Plenary Session: Prenatal Diagnosis
Chairs: Konstantin Miller, Sevilhan Artan
09:00 - 09:30   The Positive Predictive Value of Noninvasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS)
Charles Strom (USA)
09:30 - 10:00   Prenatal technologies and sex ratio
Kamlesh Madan (NL)
11:50 - 12:20 Plenary Hall Keynote Lecture
Chairs: Mariano Rocchi, José M. Garcia-Sagredo

The chromosome 22q11.2 rearrangement disorders
Bernice E. Morrow (USA)

 

 

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