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SATURDAY, 4 JULY 2015
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Room 12 - Permanent Working Group - Clinical and Molecular Approaches to Cytogenetic Syndromes |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Room 12 - Permanent Working Group - Molecular Cytogenetics and Array-CGH |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Room 12 - Permanent Working Group - Marker Chromosomes |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Room Boston - Permanent Working Group - Cytogenetics of Haematological Malignancies |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Room Boston - Permanent Working Group - Prenatal Diagnosis |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Room Boston - Permanent Working Group - Animal, Plant and Comparative Cytogenetics |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Room Dresden - CEQAS Participants' Meeting |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Room Dresden - Permanent Working Group - Quality Issues and Training in Cytogenetics |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Room Dresden - International Breakpoint Mapping Consortium, Ancillary Meeting |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Room Leicester - Permanent Working Group - Cancer Cytogenetics, Solid Tumor Studies |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Room Leicester - Permanent Working Group - Cytogenetics, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Room Leicester - Permanent Working Group - Meiotic Studies |
| 17:00 - 17:50 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
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 session: Clinical Cytogenetics
Chairs: Elisabeth Syk Lundberg, Kamlesh Madan
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| 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) |
| 09:40 - 10:30 |
Selected Oral Presentations
Detecting small Copy Number Variations, smaller than 400 kb, improves the diagnostic yield of CMA in intellectual disability
Marie Faoucher (F)
The power of social media for karyotype-phenotype analysis of rare chromosome disorders
Conny van Ravenswaaij-Arts (NL)
Reorganisation of chromosome 9 pericentromeric segmental duplications in inv(9) carriers and in evolution
Stefan Müller (D) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Plenary session: 150 Years Since Mendel's Laws (Brno, Natural History Society 1865, published 1866)
Chairs: Pat Heslop-Harrison, Mariano Rocchi
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| 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) |
| 12:00 - 14:40 | Poster Session |
| 12:40 - 13:30 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 13:40 - 14:30 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 14:40 - 15:45 |
Concurrent Session: Chromosomal Rearrangements I
Chairs: Orsetta Zuffardi, Damien Sanlaville
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| 14:40 - 15:05 |
Engineering human tumour-associated chromosomal translocations with the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system
Sandra Rodriguez Perales (E) |
| 15:05 - 15:30 |
Genome rearrangements in hereditary disorders
Karl Heinimann (CH) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Unraveling the internal structure of neocentromeres in ring chromosomes harboring genomic amplification in soft tissue tumors.
Gemma Macchia (I) |
| 14:40 - 15:45 |
Concurrent Session: Segmental Duplications and Copy Number Variants I
Chairs: Joris Vermeesch, Serge Romana
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| 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) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Unbalanced de novo chromosome translocations and inversions: a two-step origin?
Maria Clara Bonaglia (I) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:20 |
Concurrent Session: Fragile Sites and Chromosome Instability
Chairs: Lidia Larizza, Jean-Michel Dupont
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| 16:15 - 16:40 |
Fragile X Syndrome: an overview
Jean-Louis Mandel (F) |
| 16:40 - 17:05 |
CINister problems, modeling aneuploidy in the mouse
Floris Foijer (NL) |
| 17:05 - 17:20 |
Selected Oral Presentation
The International Breakpoint Mapping Consortium (IBMC). Systematic mapping of chromosomal breakpoints in the context of phenotypes and nuclear genome organization.
Niels Tommerup (DK) |
| 16:15-17:20 |
Concurrent Session: Segmental Duplications and Copy Number Variants II
Chairs: Nicole de Leeuw, Juan Cigudosa
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| 16:15 - 16:40 |
The growing importance of CNVs: new insights for detection and clinical interpretation
Sebastien Jacquemont (CDN) |
| 16:40 - 17:05 |
Copy number variation as a key to unlocking the enigma that is schizophrenia
Aiden Corvin (IRL) |
| 17:05 - 17:20 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Direct visualisation of complex structural and copy-number variation by molecular combing and multicolour-FISH.
Fengtang Yang (GB) |
| 17:20 - 18:30 | Poster Session |
| 17:30 - 18:20 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 18:30 | E.C.A. General Assembly |
MONDAY, 6 JULY 2015
| 08:30 - 10:30 |
Plenary session: Tumor cytogenetics I
Chairs: Felix Mitelman, Claudia Haferlach
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| 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) |
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Selected Oral Presentations
Comparison of microarray-based genomic profiling and karyotyping in myelodysplastic syndromes (a HOVON89 study).
Marian Stevens-Kroef (NL)
Epigenetic regulation of UNCX, a novel homeobox transcription factor gene activated in acute myeloid leukemia.
Giulia Daniele (I)
Rapid and comprehensive routine diagnostic approach for prognostic genetic markers in multiple myeloma.
Elodie David (CH) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Concurrent Session: Chromosomal Rearrangements II
Chairs: Nicole de Leeuw, Franck Pellestor
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| 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) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Meiotic recombination and complex
chromosome rearrangements: how whole-genome sequencing helps to resolve them.
Vincent Gatinois (F) |
| 11:00-12:15 |
Concurrent Session: Animal and Plant Cytogenetics
Chairs: Pat Heslop Harrison, Valerie Fillon
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| 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) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Comparative chromosome painting in lacertid lizards: highly conserved karyotypes but independent origins of sex chromosomes Veronica Rojo (E) |
| 12:15 - 14:30 | Poster Session |
| 12:40 - 13:30 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 13:40 - 14:30 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 14:30 - 15:45 |
Plenary session: Impact of Whole Genome Sequencing on Future Diagnostics
Chairs: Eva Klopocki, Juan Cigudosa
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
NGS and cytogenetics
Joris Veltman (NL) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Genetic diagnosis in malignant hemopathies
Claudia Haferlach (D) |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Exome sequencing and SNP arrays as a tool to describe genetic diversity of premalignant and malignant cells: lesson from monoclonal gammopathies.
Aneta Mikulasova (CZ) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 - 17:30 |
Concurrent Session: Tumor Cytogenetics II
Chairs: Roberta Vanni, Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand
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| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Constitutional and somatic rearrangement of chromosome 21 in ALL
Christine J. Harrison (GB) |
| 16:45 - 17:15 |
Developmental disease and cancer: Biological and Clinical Overlaps
Alfonso Bellacosa (USA) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Assessment of SNP genomic microarray analysis as an alternative to FISH analysis for the detection of copy number changes in pediatric solid tumors.
Mary Shago (CDN) |
| 16:15 - 17:30 |
Concurrent Session: Accreditation and Quality Control
Chairs: Harald Rieder, Martine Doco-Fency
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| 16:15 - 16:40 |
European Standards for Clinical Laboratory Geneticists
Thomas Liehr (D) |
| 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) |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Poster Session |
| 17:30 - 18:20 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
TUESDAY, 7 JULY 2015
| 09:00-10:30 |
Plenary session: Prenatal Diagnosis
Chairs: Konstantin Miller, Sevilhan Artan
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| 09:00 - 09:25 |
The Positive Predictive Value of Noninvasive Prenatal Screening (NIPS)
Charles Strom (USA) |
| 09:25 - 09:50 |
Prenatal technologies and sex ratio
Kamlesh Madan (NL)
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| 09:50 - 10:30 |
Selected Oral Presentation
Noninvasive prenatal testing: more caution is needed in high risk pregnancies Beatrice Oneda (CH)
Digital PCR in an efficient alternative to massively parallel sequencing as a non-invasie, prenatal test for trisomy 21: the results of a pilot study.
Laila Allach El Khattabi (F) |
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| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 - 11:40 | Industry-sponsored Satellite Symposium |
| 11:50 - 12:20 |
Keynote Lecture
Chairs: Mariano Rocchi, José M. Garcia-Sagredo
The chromosome 22q11.2 rearrangement disorders
Bernice E. Morrow (USA)
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| 12:20 |
Closing Ceremony
Chairs: José M. Garcia-Sagredo , Damien Sanlaville |
