DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

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The Annual Lorne Genome 2004 Conference, Brisbane, Australia program has now been finalized. Here is the relevant bit:

http://www.genome-conf.net.au/lorne/program.asp#

SYMPOSIUM 6 08:45-10:35
SNPs AND GENETIC ANALYSIS
Chair: Rick Sturm
Session sponsored by Sequenom

SYM-6-1
08:45 Admixture mapping for molecular photofitting and pharmacogenetics
Frudakis, T.N., Ponnuswamy, V., Thomas, M., Gaskin, Z., Gunjipulli, S. (U.S.A.)

SYM-6-2
09:15 Searching for SNPs associated with breast and ovarian cancer
Chenevix-Trench, G. (Australia)

SYM-6-3
09:45 Genetic polymorphism(val66met) in brain derived growth factor gene associated with deficits in episodic and working memory in humans
Schofield, P.R., Luty, A., Williams, L., Gordon, E. (Australia)

SYM-6-4
10:05 Association of body fat distribution and obesity with uncoupling proteins variants in Anglo-Celtic caucasians in Australia
Lin, R.C.Y., Dalziel, B., Speirs, H., Morris, B.J., Brand-Miller, J., Robertson, B., Dawes, I.W. (Australia)

SYM-6-5
10:15 Perfomance effects and evolutionary history of a common polymorphism in the ACTN3 gene
MacArthur, D.G., Yang, N., Gulbin, J., Easteal, S., North, K. (Australia)

The term "molecular photofitting" is used above - previously the term "DNA photofitting" was used to describe the forensic applications that DNAP are working on e.g. in this article:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030623/misc/23dna.htm

Incidentally, the date shown on the DNAP website for this conference is wrong. The speech referred to above is actually on 17 February.

The speech after Tony's is interesting. Georgia Chenevix-Trench has recently got a lot of funding from both Australia and the US for her group's research.

BTW, have a look at what the session Chair does:

http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?id=11690