PERSONAL GENOMES
September 30 - October 2, 2011
Abstract Deadline: July 8, 2011

Organizers:
Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Jim Lupski, Baylor College of Medicine
Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine

We are pleased to host the fourth annual meeting on Personal Genomes, which will begin in the morning (9am) on Friday, September 30, 2011 and conclude in the late afternoon of Sunday October 2.

The first three conferences have spanned a significant milestone in human genetics - the appearance of individual, or personal, human genomes, with more than 1,000 full human genomes now sequenced. Ultra high throughput sequencing strategies have now been used to study more individual genomes – and yet few scientists, and even fewer physicians and clinical geneticists are familiar with the implications of these new data. This meeting will address the issues of individual genomes being part of research and routine clinical practice within the next few years.

Keynote Speakers:
Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine
Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine
David Valle, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Topics:
Personal Genomics
Personal Cancer Genomics
Rare Diseases?
Ethics: Return of Results
Medically Actionable Genomics
Clinical Implementation of Personal Genomics

Ethics Panel:
Lynn Dressler, University of North Carolina
Ellen Wright Clayton, Vanderbilt University
Bogi Eliasen, Ministry of Health, Project Manager, FarGen, Faroe Islands
Holly Tabor, University of Washington

Invited Speakers & Discussion Leaders:
Mark Boguski, Harvard Medical School
Peer Bork, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Kathleen Burns, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Atul Butte, Stanford University School of Medicine
David Dimmock, Medical College Wisconsin
Jennifer Ivanovich, Washington University in St. Louis
Manfred Kayser, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands
Stephen Kingsmore, Children's Mercy Hospital
Dennis Lo, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Elaine Ostrander, NHGRI
Philippos Patsalis, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology
Hanna Valantine, Stanford University
Joris Veltman, Nijmegan Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands

Abstracts are welcome for consideration as poster and platform presentations and should contain new and unpublished material. Status (talk/vs. poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young scientists as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We hope to see you at Cold Spring Harbor at the end of September.

This conference may be supported in part by funds provided by:
Roche
Illumina

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.