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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
Bruce Walker, M.D.
Director, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Partners AIDS Research Center , Massachusetts General Hospital
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10:30 a.m.

Characterization of Human Genetic Variation and the Search for Genes Underlying Common Diseases
Mark Daly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center of Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
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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
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1:30 p.m.

Natural Selection in the Human Genome
Stephen Schaffner, Ph.D.
Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
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2:00 p.m.

Capturing Viral Genomic Diversity Between Hosts and Within Hosts
Matthew Henn, Ph.D.
Genome Biology Program, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
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2:30 p.m.

Break

2:45 p.m.

CHAVI Host Genetics
David Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, and Director, IGSP Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics, Duke University
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3:15 p.m.

Overview of the International HIV Controllers Study Cohort
Florencia Pereyra, M.D.
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital , and Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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3:30 p.m.

HIV Controllers: What Questions Should We Be Pursuing Using Host Genomics?
Steven Deeks, M.D.
Co-Director, Population and Clinical Sciences Core, UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco and Positive Health Program (HIV/AIDS division), San Francisco General Hospital
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4:00 p.m.

HIV Pharmacogenomics
David Haas, M.D.
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Meharry Center for AIDS Research, Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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4:30 p.m.

Q&A

4:45 p.m.

Roundtable Discussion on HIV and TB
Deborah Hung, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Anne Goldfeld, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Immune Disease Institute

David Goldstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, and Director, IGSP Center for Population Genomics & Pharmacogenetics, Duke University

David Haas, M.D.
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Meharry Center for AIDS Research, Associate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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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,
Paul de Bakker, Chris Cotsapas)

2:30 p.m.

Benjamin Neale
Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

3:30 p.m .

Alkes Price, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

4:30 p.m.

Paul de Bakker, Ph.D.
Director, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research Genomics Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Genetics), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Harvard Medical School

5:30 p.m.

Closing



  
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