Keynote Lecture 1
Julian Wells Medal Presentation

Afternoon Tea and Hotel Checkin

Session 1 - Disease Genetics and Medical Genomics

Dan Geschwind, UCLA, USA - Disease genomics and neuroscience networks
Kathryn Burdon, Flinders Uni, SA – Genetic markers of ophthalmic disease
Peter Donelly, Oxford UK - Human Genetics
Charles Swanton, London, UK – Cancer genomics to understand tumor heterogeneity - EACR Speaker

8:30-10:30

Session 2 - Chromatin and Gene Regulation

Piero Carninci, RIKEN, Japan – High throughput transcriptomics
Karen Lower, Flinders Uni, SA
Rhys Allan, WEHI, VIC
Ali Shilatifard, Stowers Institute, USA , Chromatin modifications, transcriptional elongation and childhood leukaemia

Session 3 - Nuclear Organisation and Chromosome Structure and Dynamics

Dan Durocher, Lunenfeld Inst, Canada - Genome instability mechanisms in cancer
Lea Harrington, Univ of Montreal, Canada.
Justin O’Sullivan, Massey Uni, NZ – spatial organization of the genome
Tetsuro Hirose, AIST, Japan – Nuclear bodies controlling gene expression

Session 5 - Population Genetics, Genomics and evolution

Peer Bork, EMBL, Germany
Alan Cowman, WEHI, VIC
Norman Pavelka, Singapore, Host/pathogen evolution
Peter Parham, Stanford, USA – genetics and evolution of human immunity

Session 6 - Developmental Genetics and Gene regulation

Ingrid Grummt, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany - Noncoding RNA regulating epigenetic states of rRNA genes
Mirana Ramialison, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Instiute, NSW
Greg Neely, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Roger Deal, Emory Univ, USA

Session 7 - RNA Regulation

Samie Jaffrey, Cornell, NY, USA – RNA modifications and the epitranscriptome
Peter Waterhouse, Uni Sydney, NSW – RNA-mediated gene silencing in plants
Donna Bond, Cambridge, UK
Miles Wilkinson, UCSD, USA – Transcriptional networks and RNA surveillance

Session 8 - Epigenetics, Epigenomics and chromatin

Susan  Clark, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW
Ryan Lister, Uni Western Australia, WA – methylation in plants and humans
Tim Hore, Babraham Institue, UK
Kevin Morris, Univ of NSW

Mini Break

Keynote 2 & Closing

Joan Steitz, Yale, USA - Noncoding RNAs: Providing insights into viral evolution

Offsite Conference Dinner Venues

Maple Tree, Marks, Kostas (2 course Entree & Main)