Schedule

9:00 - 9:30	Bus to Genome Campus
9:30 - 9.45	Registration
9.45 - 10.00	Janet Thornton (Director of EBI,Hinxton) Welcome - Chair: Gareth Powell
10:00 - 11.30	Academic Session 1 - Chair: Heidi Dvinge
	Keynote: Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton) Sequencing 1000 genomes Jenny Mattison (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton) "Cancer gene identification by cross-species analysis of genome-wide datasets" Sarath Chandra Janga (MRC LMB, Cambridge) "Evidence for the influence of nuclear architechture in shaping the organization of genes in eukaryotic chromosomes - genome organisation and transcriptional regulation in eukaryota" Konstantinos Gkargkas (Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) "Systematically identifying the key controllers of growth rate in a eukaryotic cell"
11.30 - 12.15	Poster session 1 (with coffee)
12.15 - 13.45	Academic Session 2 - Chair: Bryndis Yngvadottir
	Keynote: Agnar Helgason (deCODE, Iceland) Dissecting the genetic history of a human population: A decade of research about Icelanders Michael M. Hoffman (EBI, Hinxton): "The properties of natural selection in mammalian promoters" Kristian Anderson (MRC LMB, Cambridge) "Antigen-specific suppression of detrimental immune responses using polyclonal TH::iFoxp3 cells" Abhishek Deshpande "Development of microelectrochemical biosensors for application in biocatalysis"
13.45 - 14.30	Buffet Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	Academic Session 3 - Chair: Sergei Manakov
	Keynote: Timothy Bliss (MRC NIMR, London) "The Hippocampus, Synaptic Plasticity and Memory" Elin Axelsson (EBI, Hinxton) "Analysis of genetic interactions by high throughput combinatorial RNAi screens" David Doupé (MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge) "Defining the rules of epithelial homeostasis" Theresia Schaedler (Dept. Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) "Molecular mechanism of multidrug extrusion by the secondary-active transporter LmrP"
16.00 - 16.45	Poster Session 2 (with coffee)
16.45 - 17.30	Careers Session - Chair: Stephen Pettitt
	Keynote: Ottoline Leyser (University of York, York) "What are Post-docs for?" Keynote: Tony Kouzarides (Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) Academia and commercialisation of research
17.30 - 18.30	Evening Social (with refreshments)
	Poster Prize Presentation
18.30 - 19.00	Bus to Cambridge