Wednesday, April 9, 2008 & Thursday, April 10, 2008
Eighth Annual Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Symposium and Poster Session
"Human Genomics: Advances and Opportunities in HIV/AIDS Research"
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, HMS, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
10:25 a.m. |
Introduction |
10:30 a.m. |
Characterization of Human Genetic Variation and the Search for Genes Underlying Common Diseases |
11:30 a.m. |
Lunch & Poster Session |
1:00 p.m. |
Worldwide Population Structure and Ancestry in Genetic Association Studies Alkes Price, Ph.D. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Watch Streaming Video (Google Video) |
1:30 p.m. |
Natural Selection in the Human Genome |
2:00 p.m. |
Capturing Viral Genomic Diversity Between Hosts and Within Hosts |
2:30 p.m. |
Break |
2:45 p.m. |
CHAVI Host Genetics |
3:15 p.m. |
Overview of the International HIV Controllers Study Cohort |
3:30 p.m. |
HIV Controllers: What Questions Should We Be Pursuing Using Host Genomics? |
4:00 p.m. |
HIV Pharmacogenomics |
4:30 p.m. |
Q&A |
4:45 p.m. |
Roundtable Discussion on HIV and TB |
5:15 p.m. |
Closing |
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Broad Institute, Monadnock Room (NE30-2040), 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
1:00 p.m. |
Lunch Discussion (with Benjamin Neale, Alkes Price, |
2:30 p.m. |
Benjamin Neale |
3:30 p.m . |
Alkes Price, Ph.D. |
4:30 p.m. |
Paul de Bakker, Ph.D. |
5:30 p.m. |
Closing |
