Symposia...
Parallel Symposia will be hosted in collaboration with the European Commission, Directorate of Health and will include sessions from the following consortia: AffinityProteome, AtheroRemo, BBMRI, ENFIN, HEROIC, LIPIDOMICNET, LUPA, PROSPECTS, READNA, SIROCCO and SYBILLA.
Each of the parallel symposia is being organised and supported by an EU FP6/7 consortium.
S1: Lipid droplets as dynamic organelles of fat deposition and release: translational research towards human disease (LipidomicNet)
| Chair: |
Gerd Schmitz (Regensburg) |
| Speakers: |
Christian Wolfrum (Zurich): Mouse lipid storage models
Gerd Schmitz (Regensburg): Human lipid storage and release pathology
Thomas Kolter (Bonn): Mechanisms and disturbances of endolysosomal lipid processing |
Organiser: Gerd Schmitz, Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, D-93053 Regensburg, Germany

S2: Silencing RNAs: small regulatory RNAs in health and disease (SIROCCO)
| Chair: |
Gunter Meister (Martinsried) |
| Speakers: |
Thomas Meyer (Berlin)
Jørgen Kjems (Aarhus)
Eric Miska (Cambridge) |
Organisers: Aileen Hogan & David Baulcomb, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK

S3: LUPA, using the dog as a model system to decipher human disorders (LUPA)
| Chair: |
Anne-Sophie Lequarré (Liège) |
| Speakers: |
Tosso Leeb (Bern): Dog genetics provides new insights into development and growth
Anne-Sophie Lequarré (Liège): Canine primary ciliary dyskinesis reveals a new gene involved in cilium structure and function
Göran Andersson (Uppsala): Title TBA
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Organiser: Anne-Sophie Lequarré, Animal Genomics Unit. Université de Liège, GIGA-R, B34 +1 Avenue de l'hôpital, B-4000 Liège, Belgium

S4: Integrative approaches for systems biology (ENFIN)
| Chair: |
Pascal Kahlem (Hinxton) |
| Speakers: |
Henning Hermjakob (Hinxton): ENCORE and its ENVISION interface
Christine Orengo (London): Spindle test case
Jon Hancock (Harwell): The model of GSIS |
Organiser: Pascal Kahlem, EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

S5: BBMRI - The Power of Many: Catalogues of European Biobanks (BBMRI)
| Chair: |
Markus Perkola (Helsinki) |
| Speakers: |
Andres Metspalu (Hinxton & Helsinki): Population based Biobanks are for Advancement of Public Health
Erich Wichmann (Munich): Clinical Biobanks - Web-based Overview Catalogue
Gert-Jan van Ommen (Leiden): The Future of European Biobank-based Research
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Organiser: Markus Perkola & Heli Salminen-Mankonen University of Turku, Centre for Biotechnology, Tykistökatu 6, FI-20520 Turku, Finland

S6: Faster, cheaper, better DNA sequencing! (READNA)
| Chair: |
Ivo Gut (Evry) |
| Speakers: |
Ivo Gut (Evry): 2nd generation DNA sequencing of cancer genomes
Mats Nilsson (Uppsala): Diagnostics of single molecules and cells
Andrew Heron (Oxford): Towards DNA sequencing with a biological Nanopore
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Organiser: Ivo Gut & Steven McGinn, Centre National de Génotypage, 2, rue Gaston Crémieux, CP 5721, 91057 Evry Cedex, France

S7: ELIXIR: towards a sustainable infrastructure for bioinformatics research (ELIXIR)
| Chair: |
Andrew Lyall (Hinxton) |
| Speakers: |
Paul Flicek, Hinxton
Graham Cameron, Hinxton
Søren Brunak, Lyngby |
Organisers: Andrew Lyall & Nicola Slater, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK

S8: Systems biology of T cell activation (SYBILLA)
| Chair: |
Wolfgang Schamel (Frieburg) |
| Speakers: |
Thomas Höfer (Heidelberg): Ligand discrimination by the TCR
Mogjiborahman Salek (Oxford): Quantitative proteomics to decipher early T cell signalling
Riitta Lahesmaa (Turku): T cell differentiation in humans |
Organiser: Wolfgang Schamel, Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany

S9: Proteomics and epigenetics for mammalian systems biology (HEROIC)
| Chair: |
Francis Stewart (Dresden) |
| Speakers: |
Falk Butter (Martinsried)
Francis Stewart (Dresden)
Frank Buchholz (Dresden) |
Organiser: Francis Stewart, Genomics, Technische Universitaet Dresden, BioInnovationZentrum, Am Tatzberg 47, 01307 Dresden, Germany

S10: The PROSPECTS of proteomics (PROSPECTS)
| Chair: |
Matthias Mann (Martinsried) |
| Speakers: |
Nina Hubner (Martinsried): An efficient method to map the human interactome by quantitative proteomics
Belinda Westman (Dundee): 2nd Generation Proteomics: the quantitative analysis of protein properties in cell biology
Emma Lundberg (Stockholm): The Antibody-based subcellular localization atlas |
Organiser: Anne Katrin Werenskiold, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany

S11: Session Title TBC (AtheroRemo)
| Chair: |
Reijo Laaksonen (Tampere) |
| Speakers: |
Terho Lehtimäki (Tampere): A disintegrin and metalloproteinases (ADAMs): Role in atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease and sudden cardiac death
Winfried März (Heidelberg): Low density lipoprotein metabolism, hepatic lipase and coronary disease: Intriguing findings from genome wide association studies
Reijo Laaksonen (Tampere): Lipidomics as a tool for atherosclerosis research |
Organiser: Reijo Laaksonen, Pirkanmaa Hospital District, Science Center, Biokatu 10, PO BOX 2000, FI-33521 Tampere, Finland

S12: Probing the Proteome with Binders (AffinityProteome)
| Chair: |
Mike Taussig (Cambridge) |
| Speakers: |
Andreas Plϋckthun (Zurich)
Mats Gullberg (Uppsala)
Jörg Hoheisel (Heidelberg) |
Organisers: Mike Taussig & Oda Stoevesandt, Babraham Bioscience Technologies, Babraham, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, UK
