HGM 2011 - Dubai, UAE


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Confirmed Speakers

A. Nurten Akarsu
Professor of Genetics
Hacettepe University Medical Faculty
Department of Medical Genetics
Gene Mapping Laboratory


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Aida I.Al Aqeel
S.Consultant Paediatric Medical
Geneticist and Endocrinologist
(Principal Scientist, King Faisal Specialist
Hospital and Research Centre)
Department of Paediatrics, Riyadh Military Hospital

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Andre Megarbane
Professor, Unit of Medical Genetics,
Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Cytogenetics,
Faculty of Medicine, University Saint-Joseph, Lebanon

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Anthony J Brookes
Chair, Bioinformatics and Genomics
Department of Genetics
University of Leicester, UK

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Arthur L. Beaudet
Henry and Emma Meyer Professor and Chai
Department rof Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine

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Atif Shahab
Software Engineering Manager, Research Computing
Genome Institute of Singapore


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Axel Hillmer
Research Scientist, Genome Technology & Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore



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Bassam R. Ali
Associate Professor, Molecular and GeneticMedicine
Leader, Genetics and Development Research Priority Group
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,
United Arab Emirates University

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Bing Ren
Head, Laboratory of Gene Regulation
Lugwig Institute for Cancer Research
Professor,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine,
University of California,
Sandiego School of Medicine

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Chaker Adra
Principal Scientist and Director,
Stem Cell Therapy Program, Research Centre,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre,
Saudi Arabia


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Charles N. Rotimi
Director, Center for Research on Genomics and
Global Health at NHGRI/NIH
Senior Investigator, Inherited Disease Branch, NHGRI/NIH
President, African Society of Human Genetics

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Charles Lee
Director, Molecular Genetic Research Unit
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Clinical Cytogeneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Christopher A. Walsh
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chief, Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital Boston
Bullard Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics,
Harvard Medical School

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Doron Lancet
Ralph & Lois Silver Chair of Human Genomics & Head,
Crown Human Genome Centerof Molecular Genetics
Weizmann Institute of Science


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Douglas Easton
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology
University of Cambridge


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Edison T. Liu
Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore
Professor of Medicine, National University of Singapore
President, Human Genome Organisation, Singapore

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Ellen Wright Clayton
Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society

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Evan E. Eichler
Principal Investigator
Professor of Genome Sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Washington

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FahdAl-Mulla
Associate Professor and Head of Molecular Pathology
Kuwait University, The Health Sciences Center,
Faculty of Medicine

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Faycal Hentati
Professor of Neurology
Head of Department of Neurology
Institute National de Neurologie

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Felix Li Jin
Professor and Vice President of Fudan University
Professor at the National Human Genome
Center in Shanghai
Co-Director of CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational
Biology at Chinese Academy of Sciences

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George Church
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Directorof the Center for Computational Genetics



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Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez
Chief Scientific Officer, BioFields
Chair, Working Party in Biotechnology,Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)


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GertJan B. van Ommen
Head, Department of Human Genetics
Leiden University Medical Center



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Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
Director, Center for Genomic Medicine,
Duke Institute forGenome Sciences & Policy
Professor of Medicine and Pathology,
Duke UniversityMedical Center

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Ghazi Tadmouri
Assistant Director, Centre for Arab Genomic Studies




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Goncalo Abecasis
Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics




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Guillaume Bourque
Assoc Professor, Department of Human Genetics,
McGill University
Director of Bioinformatics, McGill University & Genome
Quebec Innovation Center

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Han Cao
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer,
BioNanomatrix, Inc


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Hanan Hamamy
Professor, Human Genetics
Department of Genetic Medicine and Development
Geneva University Hospital

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Howard L. McLeod
Fred N. Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Director, UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and
Individualized Therapy


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Henry Huanming Yang
President & Professor
Genomics Insitute (BGI)-Shenzhen, China



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Herve Thoreau
Production Leader, Sequencing
Genome Institute of Singapore

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Hiroaki Kitano
Director, The Systems Biology Institute
Director, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

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Iain Gillespie

Head of Science & Technology Policy Division,
Directorate for Science,
Technology and Industry, OECD

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Ingrid Winship
Professor of Adult Clinical Genetics, University of Melbourne
Executive Director Research, Melbourne Health


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Jay Shin
Research Scientist, LSA system development unit
Omics Science Center RIKEN, Japan


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Jong Bhak
Director, Personal Genomics Institute (PGI)
Director, Theragen BiO Institute (TBI)


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John S. Mattick
Professor of Molecular Biology and NHMRCFellowfor Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)

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Jun Wang
Executive Director, BGI



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Kai Q Lao
Principal Scientist
Molecular Biology Department
Applied Biosystems, USA


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Lihadh Al-Gazali
Professor in Clinical Genetics,
Department of Pediatrics,
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,
United Arab Emirates University

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Jianjun Liu
Senior Group Leader and Associate Director,
Human Genetics
Genome Institute of Singapore


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Lotfi Chouchane
Professor of Genetic Medicine
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology
Assistant Dean for Basic Science Curriculum
Weil Cornell Medical College in Qatar

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Mark McCarthy
Robert Turner Professor of Diabetes
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism


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Martin L. Hibberd
Senior Group Leader and Associate Director,
Infectious Diseases
Genome Institute of Singapore

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Mary-Claire King
American Cancer Society Professor
Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and
Genome Sciences Health Sciences University of Washington
School of Medicine

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Maude E.Phipps
Professor (Human Genetics)
Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Monash University


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Michael Rhodes
Senior Scientific Applications Manager,
Next Generation Sequencing
Life Technologies, Foster City, CA, USA


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Mike Lelivelt
Director of Bioinformatics & Software Products
Life Technologies
Ion Torrent, USA


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Milos Pekny
Professor,
Laboratory of Astrocyte Biology and CNS Regeneration
Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation
Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation
Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology
Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg,
Sweden

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Mitsuoki Kawano
Research Scientist
LSA Technology Development Unit
RIKEN Omics Science Center





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Mahmoud Taleb Al Ali
Director, Centre for Arab Genomic Studies




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Moien Kanaan
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Dean of Science and Hereditary Research Lab Director
Bethlehem University


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Mostafa Ronaghi
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Illumina, Inc



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Nasir Al-Allawi
Professor of Hematology,
Head of Pathology and Hematology/Oncology,
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Dohuk

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Neil Jones
Affiliate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, Canada




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Nicolas Katsanis
Director, Center for Human Disease Modeling,
Dept of Cell Biology
W. Brumley Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Duke University

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Niranjan Nagarajan
Senior Research Scientist,& Mathematical Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore

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Pauline CNg
Group Leader, Computational & Mathematical Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore

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Radoje Drmanac
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder
Complete Genomics, Inc.
Mountain View, California

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Pierre Meulien
President and CEO
Genome Canada


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Pierre Renault
Research Director, Micalis Institute




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Piero Carninci
Leader of the Functional Genomics Technology Team and of the Omics Resource Development Unit
Deputy Project Director of the LSA Technology Development Group
Omics Science Center(OSC), RIKEN, Japan

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Richard G. H. Cotton
Senior Principal Research Fellow
Group Leader, Genomic Disorders Research Centre



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Ruth Chadwick
Director, Cesagen




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Robert G. Urban
Executive Director
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative
Cancer Research at MIT


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Samir K. Brahmachari
Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR), India
(Former Director, Institute of Genomics and Integrative
Biology (IGIB), India)

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Samia A. Temtamy
Professor of Human Genetics and Founder of
Human Genetics in the National Research Centre



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Stephen W. Scherer
Director, McLaughlin Centre and
Centre for Applied Genomics,
Hospital for Sick Children and
University of Toronto

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Sydney Brenner
President, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Promotion Corporation
Senior Fellow, Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI


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Tim Sprosen
Chief Scientific Officer
UK Biobank



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Veronica van Heyningen
Honorary Professor University of Edinburgh
Group Leader, MRC Human Genetics Unit


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Xiaoan Ruan
Manager, Personal Genomics Solutions (PGS)
Genome Institute of Singapore


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Yijun Ruan
Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of
Genomics Technology & Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore


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Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Director
Omics Science Center, RIKEN



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Yuan-Tsoong Chen
Distinguished Reasearch Fellow
Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Academia Sinica


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