47th Annual Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA (July 16-28, 2006)
The content of the annual Short Course focuses on (1) an up-to-date presentation of genetics in experimental animals and humans, (2) the relationship of heredity to disease in experimental animals and humans, and (3) the importance of molecular genetics in the diagnosis and treatment of inherited disorders. The development and uses of modern techniques in bioinformatics, mathematical genetics, genome manipulation, mutagenesis, and phenotyping are taught in lectures and in afternoon workshop sessions. The Short Course includes an implicit focus on translational biology and clinical applications.
Topics include:
- Bioinformatics
- Immunogenetics
- Neurogenetics
- Neurosensory disorders
- Metabolic disorders including cardiovascular disease
- Epi genetics
- Model organisms of human diseases
- Clinical genetics: human congenital anomalies and molecular diagnosis
- Systems Biology
- Treatment of genetic diseases and gene therapy
- Ethical, legal, and societal issues in genetics/genomics
- Stem cell biology
- Whole genome sequences from humans, mice, and othe
- The haplotype map project
- History of medical genetics
- Chromosome structure, function, and aberrations
- Regulation of gene expression
- Population genetics, linkage, and complex trait analysis
- Genome diversity
More: http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=214
