| BIT's 2nd Annual World Congress of Gene 2008
Full Program
Time: Dec. 5-7, 2008
Venue: Foshan Sanshui Garden Hotel (FSGH), Foshan, China
Theme: Decoding Life for Human Health
The scientific program for the congress has been developed by selecting abstracts for oral presentations and grouping these abstracts into congress. Poster sessions/Exhibitions will be held through the whole congress.
LANGUAGE NOTE: The whole congress will be conducted in English.
Main Conference
Opening Ceremony and Keynote Forum
Time |
Activities |
Dec. 05, 2008
Friday
09:00-11:45 |
Opening Ceremony |
09:00-09:05 |
Chair's Opening Remark |
09:05-09:25 |
VIP's Address |
Keynote Forum |
09:25-09:30 |
Chair¡¯s Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Wenling Zheng, Chair, South Genomics Research Center; Professor, South Medical University, Guangzhou, China |
09:30-10:15 |
Title : Roles of the Ubiquitin System in Health and Disease
Dr. Avram Hershko, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004, Professor, Unit of Biochemistry, The B.
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel |
10:15-11:00 |
Title : Understanding Chronic Disease Requires Study of a Metagenome, not just the Human Genome
Dr. Trevor G Marshall, Director, Autoimmunity Research Foundation, Thousand Oaks, USA; Adjunct Professor, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Western Australia |
11:00-11:45 |
Title: Innovations for Innovations ¨C Developing New Tools for Life Science Discovery
Dr. Victor Shi, President, QIAGEN Asia, QIAGEN China (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., China
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Dec. 05, 2008
Friday
13:30-14:25 |
Workshop 1: Social Ethic, Economy, Legal and Regulations of Gene Technology |
Session Chair |
Dr. Norbert W. Paul, Full Professor and Chair, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany |
13:30-13:35 |
Workshop Introduction |
13:35-14:00 |
Title: Working with Biological Material ¨C Laws and Regulations to be Respected
Dr. Vera Weihs, DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Germany |
14:00-14:25 |
Title: The Reinvention of Prevention Aims, Goals and Scope of Public Health Genetics Revisited
Dr. Norbert W. Paul, Full Professor and Chair, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany |
14:30-14:55 |
Title: The Importance of Genetic Counseling and Medical Ethics Issues
Dr.Aysegul Demirhan Erdemir, Professor,Uludag University; President,Department of Deontology; Bursa President, Society for Medical Ethics and Law,Turkey |
14:55-15:20 |
Title: Gene Technologies and Ethical issues
Dr. Badaruddin Abbasi, Director, National Research Institute of Fertility Care, Pakistan |
Dec. 05, 2008
Friday
14:25-15:15 |
Workshop 2: Gene and Ageing & Longevity |
14:25-14:50 |
Title: Alpha-Kinases: From Translational Control to Longevity
Dr. Alexey Ryazanov, Full Professor, Department of Pharmacology, RW.Johnson Medical School UMDNJ, USA |
14:50-15:15 |
Title: Metabolomics to Functional Genomics: Identifying a Common Genetic Control for Vigour and Longevity of Rice Seed
Dr. Swati Sen-Mandi, Senior Professor, Bose Institute, Botany Department, Kolkata, India |
15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
Track 1: Basis and Frontiers of Gene Technology
-Better Understanding Life at Gene Level
Dec. 5, 2008
Friday
13:30-17:00 |
Track 1-1: Human & Microbial Genetics, Genetic Model Systems and Human Diseases
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Session Chair |
Dr. George Klein, Professor Emeritus, Research Group Leader, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (MTC) Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Cong-Yi Wang, Associate Professor, Director, Georgia Esoteric & Molecular laboratory; Associate Professor, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, USA |
13:30-13:35 |
Introduction |
13:35-14:00 |
Title: Ribosome Recycling Step; The Essential Fourth Step of Protein Synthesis as a Possible Target of Antibiotics and Anti-tumor Agent
Dr. Hideko Kaji, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
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14:00-14:25 |
Title: Is there genetic cancer resistance?
Dr. George Klein, Professor Emeritus, Research Group Leader, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center (MTC) Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
14:25-14:50 |
Title: Genetics of M&M: Not a Candy Issue At All
Dr. Volodymyr Dvornyk, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, China |
14:50-15:15 |
Title: The Urofacial Syndrome (UFS), a Unique Model for Dissecting the Mechanism Underlying Voiding Dysfunction
Dr. Cong-Yi Wang, Associate Professor, Director, Georgia Esoteric & Molecular laboratory; Associate Professor, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, USA |
15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30-15:55 |
Title: Human Genome, MHC-gene, HLA complex involved in Immune responses
Dr. Nitosh Kumar Brahma, Faculty, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India |
15:55-16:20 |
Title: Gene Therapy in the Management of Oral Diseases
Dr. Balwant Rai, Department of Dentistry, Government Dental College, India |
16:20-16:45 |
Title: Investigating the Genetics of Pre-eclampsia
Dr. Simmi.Kharb, Medical Biochemistry Department of Biochemistry, Pt.B.D. Sharma P.G.I.M.S., Haryana, India |
16:45-17:00 |
Panel Discussion |
Dec. 5, 2008
Friday
13:30-15:15
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Track 1-2: Gene Delivery Technologies
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Session Chair |
Dr. Daniel W. Pack, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, USA |
13:30-13:35 |
Introduction |
13:35-14:00 |
Title: Engineering Gene Delivery: Toward Construction of Artificial Viruses
Dr. Daniel W. Pack, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, USA |
14:00-14:25 |
Title: Toxicological Aspects and Applications of Nanoparticles in Paediatric Respiratory Disease
Dr. Mike Clements, Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine, Keele University, UK |
14:25-14:50 |
Title: Nano-sized Vesicles for Targeted Drug Delivery and Gene Therapy
Dr. Eli Heldman, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel |
14:50-15:15 |
Title: Development of Disease (Bacterial Blight) Resistance in Indica Rice by Agrobacterium Mediated Transformation
Dr. Harmid Rashid, Professor, Coordinator Bioinformatics Program, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan |
15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
Dec. 5, 2008
Friday
15:30-17:40 |
Track 1-3: Functional Genomics: Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Pharmacogenomics and Epigenomics
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Session Chair |
Dr. Klaus Weinberger, Chief Scientific Officer, BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Austria |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Akira Kaji, Professor, Dept of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
15:30-15:35 |
Introduction |
15:35-16:00 |
Title: Epigenetic Analysis of Human Sperm as a Cause of Male Infertility: The Role of Abnormal Chromatin Packaging during Early Embryogenesis
Dr. Douglas T. Carrell, Full Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA |
16:00-16:25 |
Title: Targeted Metabolomics in Pharmaceutical R&D
Dr. Klaus Weinberger, Chief Scientific Officer, BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG, Austria |
16:25-16:50 |
Title: Three Additional Functions of Ribosome Recycling Factor-Its Role During the Chain Elongation and for the Initiation of Translationally Coupled ORFs.
Dr. Akira Kaji, Professor, Dept of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
16:50-17:15 |
Title: Novel proteomics technologies for identifying new drug targets and dissection of protein modification networks
Dr. Yingming Zhao, Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, USA |
17:15-17:40 |
Title: Application of the Surface Display in the Expression of Drug Target Proteins on Bacteriophages
Dr. Wei-Jun Ma, Professor,Institute of Health Science,Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences / Medical School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
08:30-11:20 |
Track 1-4 (I): RNA Technologies: siRNA, RNAi, microRNAs,mRNA and Antisense
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Session Chair |
Dr. Peixuan Guo, Director of Nanobimedical Center of the University of Cincinnati; Professor of Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, USA |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Preethi H. Gunaratne, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, USA |
08:30-08:35 |
Introduction |
08:35-09:00 |
Title: Phi29 Motor pRNA as a Vehicle to Deliver siRNA to Specific Cancer or Viral Infected Cells using RNA Nanotechnology
Dr. Peixuan Guo, Director of Nanobimedical Center of the University of Cincinnati; Professor of Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, USA |
09:00-09:25 |
Title: Design of Chemically Modified siRNA Targeted Cancer-related Genes
Dr. Elena L. Chernolovskaya, Principal Investigator, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Russian Federation |
09:25-09:50 |
Title: Role of miRNAs in Airway Hyper-Responsiveness and Goblet Cell Hyperplasia Associated with Allergic Asthma
Dr. Preethi H. Gunaratne, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Houston, USA |
09:50-10:15 |
Title: MicroRNA Involvement in Murine Mammary Gland Development
Dr. Qingzhang Li, Full Professor, Key laboratory Dairy Science of Education Ministry, Northeast Agricultural University, China |
10:15-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30-10:55 |
Title: RNAi Suppressors from Begomovirus: Biology, Mechanisms and Usages
Dr. Sunil Kumar Mukherjee, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India |
10:55-11:20 |
Title: Global distribution of miRNA in Soybean
Dr. Jun Wang, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 100081 Beijing, China |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
13:30-15:15 |
Track 1-4 (II): RNA Technologies: siRNA, RNAi, microRNAs,mRNA and Antisense |
Session Chair |
Dr. Jiang He, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging, University of California, USA |
13:30-13:35 |
Introduction |
13:35-14:00 |
Title: Molecular and Cellular Regulation of 4.1R Pre-mRNA Alternative Splicing During Erythroid Differentiation
Dr. Faouzi Baklouti, University Lyon 1; CNRS, France |
14:00-14:25 |
Title: RNA Silencing Suppressors
Dr. Erkki Truve, Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
14:25-14:50 |
Title: The Role of the MicroRNAs During Development and Cancer Progression
Dr. Aurora Esquela Kerscher, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Cell Biology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA |
14:50-15:15 |
Title: Nanosized Assembly to Improve Antisense Delivery
Dr. Jiang He, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging, University of California, USA |
15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
08:30-11:50 |
Track 1-5: SNPs Technologies and New Cloning Technologies Gene Expression Profiling
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Session Chair |
Dr. Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Associate Professor, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Sui Huang, Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, USA |
08:30-08:35 |
Introduction |
08:35-09:05 |
Title: Results from Genome Wide Association Studies: Moving Forward with Certainty
Dr. Struan F.A. Grant, Associate Director, Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA |
09:05-09:35 |
Title: Genetics of Schizophrenia: Real Genes Are Hard to Find
Dr. Xiangning (Sam) Chen, Associate Professor, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
09:35-10:05 |
Title: SNP Genotyping with DASH, Pyrosequencing and TaqMan
Dr. Harvest F. Gu, Associate Professor, Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
10:05-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30-11:00 |
Title: The PNC Is Associated with DNA and Novel RNA-protein Complexes
Dr. Sui Huang, Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, USA |
11:00-11:30 |
Title: Influence of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of RA System on Blood Pressure and Blood Levels of Trace Elements
Dr. Shahida Hasnain, Pofessor & Chairperson, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Punjab University, Pakistan |
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11:30-11:50 |
Panel Discussion |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
08:30-12:05
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Track 1-6: Bioinformatics, Computational Gene Technologies and Systems Biology
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Session Chair |
Dr. Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, Depts. Psychiatry and Human Genetics and Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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Co-Chair |
Dr. Frederic Pio, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada |
08:30-08:35 |
Introduction |
08:35-08:55 |
Title: Candidate Gene Selection and Gene Networks in Schizophrenia
Dr. Zhongming Zhao, Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics, Depts. Psychiatry and Human Genetics and Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
08:55-09:20 |
Title: Integrating Structural Bioinformatics and Proteomics Approaches to Discover New Genes, Protein Families, and Function in Apoptosis and Inflammation
Dr. Frederic Pio, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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09:20-09:40 |
Title: Gentrepid: a Webserver for Computational Candidate Disease Gene Prediction
Dr. Jason Y. Liu, Chief Programmer, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
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09:40-10:00 |
Title: Biological Virus and Computer Virus
Dr. Wen Ling Zheng, Chair, South Genomics Research Center, Professor, South Medical University, Guangzhou, China |
10:10-10:25 |
Coffee Break |
10:25-10:45 |
Title: Structure Bioinformatics, TCM Databases, and Personalized Drug Design
Dr. Dong-Qing Wei, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China |
10:45-11:05 |
Title: Novel Paradigms for Drug Discovery: Computational Multitarget Screening
Dr. Ekachai Jenwitheesuk, Senior Researcher, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand
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11:05-11:25 |
Title: Persistent Genes in Bacterial Genomes and Their Significance in Synthetic Biology
Dr. Gang Fang, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, USA
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11:25-11:45 |
Title: Insulin Resistance, Salt-sensitive Hypertension and Inflammation: A Trio in Dahl Salt-sensitive Rats
Dr. Marlene Shehata, Part-Time Professor of Pharmacology, University of Ottawa, Canada |
11:45-12:05 |
Title: Evolutionary Mechanisms of Gene Duplication Revealed by Whole Genome Duplication Events in Eukaryote Genomes
Dr. Li-zhi Gao, Professor, Director of Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
11:20-12:10
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Track 1-7: Chromosomes / DNA Dynamics |
Session Chair |
Dr. Akinori Takaoka, Professor, Division of Signaling in Cancer and Immunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan |
11:20-11:45 |
Title: DNA Sensing Mechanism for the Activation of Innate Immune Responses
Dr. Akinori Takaoka, Professor, Division of Signaling in Cancer and Immunology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan |
11:45-12:10 |
Title: Progress in Non-invasive Prenatal Diagnosis of Common Aneuploidies
Dr. Maj Hulten, Professor of Medical Genetics, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
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Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
08:30-11:40 |
Track 1-8:
Statistical and Computational Genomics
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Session Chair |
Dr. Rongling Wu, Professor and Director, Center for Statistical Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Arthur Berg, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, USA |
08:30-08:35 |
Introduction |
08:35-09:00 |
Title: Linkage Disequilibria Analysis of Multilocus Multiallelic Markers in Outcrossing Populations
Dr. Arthur Berg, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, USA |
09:00-09:25 |
Title: Computing Genetic Imprinting of Haplotypes in Case-Control Studies
Dr.Yun-Qian Guo, Beijing Forestry University, China |
09:25-09:50 |
Title: Statistical and Computational Pharamcogenomics: Computing Genes for Drug Response
Dr. Rongling Wu, Professor and Director, Center for Statistical Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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09:50-10:15 |
Title: A New Way for Analysing Nucleotide Sequences
Dr. Thomas Wilhelm, computational biologist, Theoretical Systems Biology, Institute of Food Research, U.K. |
10:15-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30-10:55 |
Title: Gene-Gene Interaction Analysis for the Genome-wide Association Studies
Dr.Taesung Park, Chair, Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Korea |
10:55-11:20 |
Title: An Efficient Strategy for Solving Remote Homologue Modeling and Alignment
Dr. Huisheng Fang, Department of Bioinformatics, China Pharmaceutical University, China |
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11:20-11:40 |
Panel Discussion |
Track 2: Gene Technologies in New Drug Development and Medical Practice
-Delivering Promising Cures for Severe Diseases
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
13:30-16:45 |
Track 2-1: Gene Tech in Molecular Diagnostics, Prognostics and Personalized Medicine |
Session Chair |
Dr. Pavel Hamet, Canada Research Chair Predictive Genomics, C.E.O. Prognomix, Canada |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Xiaowu Liang, President & CEO, ImmPORT Therapeutics, Inc., USA |
13:30-13:35 |
Introduction |
13:35-14:00 |
Title: Antigen/Biomarker Discovery Using High throughput Proteomics Tools
Dr. Xiaowu Liang, President & CEO, ImmPORT Therapeutics, Inc., USA
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14:00-14:25 |
Title: Development of DNA Chip Technologies in Southern China
Dr. Ma Wenli, Director and Professor, Institute of GeneticEngineering, Southern Medical University, China |
14:25-14:50 |
Title: Will Total Genome Scans Help Us With Predictive Power in Personalized Medicine
Dr. Pavel Hamet, Canada Research Chair Predictive Genomics, C.E.O. Prognomix, Canada
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14:50-15:15 |
Title: Genetic Screening and Personalized Medicine in Clinical Practice of Nephrology
Dr. Hansjorg Rothe, Klinikum Neumarkt, Germany
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15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30-15:55 |
Title: GENETIC SCREENING FOR SPORADIC CANCERS AND OTHER DISEASES OF COMPLEX AETIOLOGY
Dr. Varun Kesherwani, INFOVALLEY Group of Companies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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15:55-16:20 |
Title: Killer Cells Therapy Lower the Short-term Recurrence Rates of Hepatocellular Carcinomas
Dr. Jian-Chuan Xia, Full Professor, The Biotherapy Center of Cancer Center in Sun-Yat Sen University, China
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16:20-16:45 |
Panel Discussion
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Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
15:30-16:50
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Track 2-2: Validation of Functional Gene Target, Biomarker and Lead / Hits |
Session Chair |
Dr. Hui Ge, President and CEO, AscentGene, Inc., USA |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Ian G Macreadie, Professor, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Australia |
15:30-15:35 |
Introduction |
15:35-16:00 |
Title: The Use of Yeast to Develop Chemo Protectives of The Human Brain
Dr. Ian G Macreadie, Professor, CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, Australia
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16:00-16:25 |
Title: Cell Nanomechanics as a Marker for Cancer
Dr. Jianyu Rao, Associate Professor, Pathology and Epidemiology; Director, Gynecological Pathology, UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA
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16:25-16:50 |
Title: The Prospect of Biologics
Dr. Hui Ge, President and CEO, AscentGene, Inc., USA |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
13:30-17:10 |
Track 2-3: Gene Therapy for Cancers |
Session Chair |
Dr. Cheng Qian, Director, University of Navarra, Spain |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Jeannie Hou, AstraZeneca, Germany |
13:30-13:35 |
Introduction |
13:35-14:00 |
Title: Antimetastatic Activity of RNase A and DNase I
Dr. Marina A. Zenkova, Director of the Laboratory of Nucleic Acids Biochemistry, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, Russian Federation
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14:00-14:25 |
Title: Function of Cellular Topoisomerases (I, II¦Á and II¦Â) During Replication of Adenovirus ¨C Implications in cancer therapy
Dr. Fernando Ferreira, Assistant Professor, Department of Morphology and Function, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Technical University of Lisbon Portugal
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14:25-14:50 |
Title: Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Mutation Driven Cancers
Dr. Jeannie Hou, AstraZeneca, Germany
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14:50-15:15 |
Title: Challenges and Opportunities in Gene Therapy of Cancers
Dr. Cheng Qian, Director, University of Navarra, Spain
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15:15-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30-15:55 |
Title: "BioKnife" as a New Class of Genetically Engineered Anticancer Drug Based on Fusion Activity of Recombinant Sendai Virus
Dr. Hiroaki Kinoh, Assistant Professor, Department of Gene Therapy, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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15:55-16:20 |
Title: Dendritic Cells Infected with Sendai Virus Vector, a Powerful Stimulator for Cancer Immunities
Dr. Yasuji Ueda, Associate Professor, Chiba University, Japan |
16:20-16:45 |
Title: Role of Stress in DNA Damage and Progression of Cancer
Dr. Naheed Banu, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, A. M. University, India
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16:45-17:10 |
Panel Discussion |
Dec. 6, 2008
Saturday
13:30-16:50
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Track 2-4: Gene Therapy for CNS Disorders, Cardiovascular Disorders, Metabolic Diseases and
Inflammation Diseases |
Session Chair |
Dr. Kenneth Lundstrom, Founder and CEO, Pan Therapeutics, Switzerland |
Co-Chair |
Call for Co-Chair |
13:30-13:35 |
Introduction |
13:35-14:05 |
Title: Alphavirus-based Gene Therap
Dr. Kenneth Lundstrom, Founder and CEO, Pan Therapeutics, Switzerland
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14:05-14:35 |
Title: The Epithelial Sodium Channel -¦Á Subunit Splice Variant b (¦Á ENaC b): Impact on Drug Discovery and Development
Dr. Marlene Shehata, Part-Time Professor of Pharmacology, University of Ottawa, Canada
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14:35-15:05 |
Title: Developmental Origin of Adipose Tissue: Novel Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Adipogenesis and Energy Metabolism
Dr. Yu-Hua Tseng , Assistant Investigator, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
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15:05-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
15:30-16:00 |
Title: SiRNA Therapy of Scar Formation in Spinal Cord Traumatic Injury
Dr. Alain M. Privat, Professor and head, Spinal Cord Team, Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier (INM), France |
16:00-16:30 |
Title: Interaction of XRCC1, CCND1 and GSTM1 Gene Polymorphisms with Tobacco Exposure in Modification of the Risk of Oral Leukoplakia
Dr. Binod Kumar Yadav, Professor, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Maharajgunj Campus, Nepal |
16:30-16:50 |
Panel Discussion |
Dec. 7, 2008
Friday
08:30-09:00
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Plenary Speech |
08:30-09:00 |
Title: Recent Paradigm Shift in Understanding Estrogen Signaling Opens up Novel Pharmaceutical Developments
Dr. Jan-Åe Gustafsson, Professor & Chairman, Department of Biosciences & Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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09:00-09:15 |
Closing Ceremony
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Dec. 7, 2008
Friday
09:15-11:50
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Track 2-5: Gene Therapy for Autoimmune Diseases and Gene Therapy Management in Clinical Practice |
Session Chair |
Dr. Rajni Rani, Senior Scientist, National Institute of Immunology, India |
09:15-09:45 |
Title: Systemic Sclerosis: from Bench to Bedside. Insights into Treatment
Dr. Lazaros I. Sakkas, Professor,Medicine and Rheumatology,Thessaly University School of Medicine, Greece |
09:45-10:15 |
Title: Immunogenetic Basis of Auto-immune Responses in Type 1 Diabetes in North Indian patients.
Dr. Rajni Rani, Senior Scientist, National Institute of Immunology, India |
10:15-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30-11:00 |
Title: Genetics of Metabolic Bone Disorders: from Predisposition Genes to Targeted Personalized Medicine
Dr. Luigi Gennari, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrine-Metabolic Sciences and Biochemistry University of Siena, Italy
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11:00-11:30 |
Title: BREAST CANCER: ABREAST WITH TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Shikha Tarang, Jr. Scientist, INFOVALLEY Group of Companies, Malaysia
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11:30-11:50 |
Panel Discussion |
Track 3: Agricultural, Forest Tree, Marine & Food Gene Technology
--Optimizing Our Natural Resources
This Track is Co-organized by Committee of Agro-biotechnology of Chinese Society of Biotechnology (CSBT) and China Biotechnology Information Center, ISAAA
Dec. 7, 2008
Friday
09:15-11:30 |
Track 3: Agricultural, Forest Tree, Marine & Food Gene Technology
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Session Chair |
Dr. Hany A. El-Shemy, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt |
Co-Chair |
Dr. Hefferon, K. L., Professor, Cornell Research Foundation, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
09:15-09:35 |
Title: The Role of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) in Transgenic Plants to Reduce the Epigenetic Phenomena
Dr. Hany A. El-Shemy, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt |
09:35-09:55 |
Title: Biopharmaceuticals in Plants: Toward the Next Century of Medicine
Dr. Hefferon, K. L., Professor, Cornell Research Foundation, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
09:55-10:15 |
Title: Cassava Genetic Improvement for Food Security and Bioenergy Development
Dr. Peng Zhang, Full Professor, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
10:15-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:30-10:50 |
Title: Bacteriophage-host Interactions and the Potential of Phage Therapy to Control Bacterial Infections in Aquaculture
Dr. Mathias Middelboe, Associate professor, Marine Biology Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
10:50-11:10 |
Title: Comparative Genomics of Conifers
Dr. Kermit Ritland, Professor, Department of Forest Genetics, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
11:10-11:30 |
Tilte: Edible Safety Requirements and Assessment Standards for Agricultural Genetically Modified Organisms
Dr. Pingjian Deng, Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China |
PLEASE NOTE: ALL TIME ARRANGEMENTS ARE TENTATIVELY PROPOSED, THESE MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY CHANGED PRIOR TO THE CONGRESS ACCORDING TO SESSION CHAIR'S SUGGESTIONS.
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