Workshop Sessions

Complete List of Workshop Oral Presentations

Tue 19 April 16:00-18:00

1. Genomics, Society and World Health: from Genetic Factors to Infectious Disease (Ethics Session)

Chair/Co-Chairs: Abdallah Daar (Canada) and Ryuichi Ida (Japan)
Speakers: Jeffrey Matsuura, Baoqi Su, Maude. E. Phipps, Ruth Chadwick, Kiichiro Tsutani, Darryl R.J. Macer, Shinobu Gamou, Anthony M. Cutter

2. Genome-based Population Studies and their Applications

Chair/Co-Chairs: Ann-Christine Syvanen (Sweden) and Teruhiko Yoshida (Japan)
Speakers: Masayuki Aoki, Seishi Ogawa, T.R. Gaunt, N. Maniatis, Kumi Nakazaki, Michael Nothnagel, Nelson L.S. Tang, Chien-Hsiun Chen

3. QTLs, Genomics, and Gene-environment Interactions

Chair/Co-Chairs: Ian Craig (UK)
Speakers: S.M. Moscovis, Shuen-Iu Hung, C.S. Loat, Xiangqun Holly Zheng, Michal Pravenec, E.L. Meaburn, Masaharu Isobe, Yang Da

4. Human Diversity and Human Evolution

Chair/Co-Chairs: Doug Wallace (USA) and Katsushi Tokunaga (Japan)
Speakers: Edward J. Hollox, L.J.M. Coin, Naoki Osada, L. Quintana-Murci, Charu Rajput, Charles Lee, I. Ebersberger, Satoshi Oota

5. New Frontiers in Computational Genomics and Systems Biology

Chair/Co-Chairs: Kenta Nakai (Japan) and Hiroki Ueda (Japan)
Speakers: Hiroaki Yabuuchi, Chung-Yen Lin, Huaiyu Mi, Ryuzo Azuma, Takaho Endo, Takayuki Taniya, Carsten Rosenow

Wed 20 April 16:00-18:00

6. Public Health and Human Genome Research in the Postgenome Era: ELSI Issues (Ethics Session)

Chair/Co-Chairs: Kazuto Kato (Japan)
Speakers: Kenji Matsui, Eiko Suda, Kaori Muto, David Weisbrot, M. Bhardwaj, Mylene Deschenes

7. Genes, Chromosomes and Diseases

Chair/Co-Chairs: Hans Hilger Ropers (Germany)
Speakers: Todd Taylor, Dan Clutter, Naomichi Matsumoto, Mira Kyttala, Anna Pelling, Maria Pia Cosma, Guan-Biao Zhou, Andrew. R. Carson

8. Environmental Genomics

Chair/Co-Chairs: Jean Weissenbach (France) and Masahira Hattori (Japan)
Speakers: Takashi Abe, Hideto Takami, Tomomi Kuwahara, Tetsuya Iida

9. Genome Dynamics and Transcriptome

Chair/Co-Chairs: Takao Isogai (Japan) and Hyang-Sook Yoo (Korea)
Speakers: Silka Sperling, Kouichi Kimura, Dvir Dahary, Riu Yamashita, Nathalie Theret, Philipp Kapranov, G. Bethel, Naoki Goshiman

10. Integration of Human Genome Annotations and Bioinformatics

Chair/Co-Chairs: Nick Yankovsky (Russia) and Yasushi Okazaki (Japan)
Speakers: Yunxia Sophia Zhu, C.A. Steward, Yasushi Totoki, Chisato Yamasaki, Vineet K. Sharma, Tulika Prakash Srivastava, Hidemasa Bono, A. Collins, E.I. Rogaev

Thu 21 April 09:00-11:00

11. Pharmacogenomics, Toxicogenomics and Chemical Genomics

Chair/Co-Chairs: Yasuhiko Masuho (Japan) and Jose Maria Cantu (Mexico)
Speakers: Wen-Hung Chung, Morimasa Wada, Lee Weng, Yoshitaka Nobukuni, Ellson Chen, Y. Suwa, Fabrice Morel, Chie Furihata

12. New Technologies and High-throughput Analysis

Chair/Co-Chairs: Edison Liu (Singapore) and Hiroyuki Aburatani (Japan)
Speakers: F. Steemers, Christian Maercker, Jer-Yuarn Wu, Simon T. Bennett, Andy McShea, Keith Jones, Kunihisa Nagino, YiJun Ruan

13. Genomic Basis of Common Diseases

Chair/Co-Chairs: Tatsushi Toda (Japan)
Speakers: Yulei Wang, C.F. Yang, Tomohiro Katsuya, Ann-Christine Syvanen, Yijaung Chern, Nozomi Takahashi, H. Osawa, K.A. Frazer

14. Proteome and Structural Genomics

Chair/Co-Chairs: Shigeyuki Yokoyama (Japan)
Speakers: Meng-Ru Ho, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Masaaki Oyama, Birgit Pils, Marlis Herberth, Hong Li, Teruyuki Tsuji

15. Epigenetics and Diseases

Chair/Co-Chairs: Norio Nakatsuji (Japan)
Speakers: Poh-San Lai, Yoichi Yamada, Mei-Shang Ho, Dong-Kug Choi, Yong Sung Kim, Nadiya Sosonkina, Sadayuki Ban, Choon-Sik Park