Stanford's Beckman Center 7th Annual Program in
Molecular Genetic Medicine Symposium
held in conjunction with
5th Annual Bristol Myers Squibb Cardiovascular Symposium
on
MOLECULAR GENETICS OF COMPLEX CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC DISEASE

Monday-Tuesday, April 8-9, 1996
8:00 to 4:30 PM

Organizers: V.J. Dzau, P. Berg,
P. Corvol, G. Bell, J. Scott Final

Fairchild Auditorium
Stanford University Medical Center
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/genemed

Final Program

Day 1, Monday April 8

8:00-8:15 AM V.J. Dzau/Pierre Corvol
Welcome

8:15-8:30 Paul Berg
Opening remarks

Genetic Dissection of Complex Disease (Chair: David Botstein)

8:30-9:15 AM David Cox
Human Genome Project

9:15-9:45 Neil Risch
Tools and Methods for Analysis of Complex Genetic Diseases

9:45-10:15 Coffee

10:15-10:45 Richard Myers
Novel Genotyping Technologies

11:00-11:30 Mark Lathrop
Genetic Dissection of Complex Disease

12:00 LUNCH

Genetics of Diabetes, Obesity, and Insulin Resistance
(Chair: James Scott/David Cox)

1:00-1:30 Jeff Friedman
Cloning of Obesity Genes

1:45-2:15 Richard Spielman
Finding Genes for Insulin-Dependent Diabetes (IDDM)

2:30-2:45 COFFEE

2:45-3:15 Graeme Bell
Genetics of Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes (NIDDM)

3:30-4:00 Ron Kahn
Genetics of Insulin Resistance Syndrome

4:15-4:45 Allen Roses
APO E and Alzheimer's Disease

5:00-5:30 Jan Breslow
Genetic Models of Dyslipidemia

Day 2, Tuesday April 9 Genetics of Hypertension (Chair: Claude Lenfant)

8:30-9:00 Howard Jacob
Genetics of Hypertension: Lessons from the Rat

9:15-9:45 Richard Lifton
Genes and Human Familial Hypertension Syndromes

10:00-10:15 COFFEE

10:15-10:45 Pierre Corvol
Genetics of Human Essential Hypertension

11:00-11:30 Stephen Mockrin
Genetic Determinants of Human Millicent Higgins High Blood Pressure: U.S. National Collaborative Program

11:45-12:15 Oliver Smithies
Lessons from Knock-outs of the Renin Angiotensin Systems

12:15 LUNCH

Genetics to Gene Therapy (Chair: Lucille Shapiro/Phyllis Gardner)

1:15-1:45 Inder Verma
Human Gene Therapy

2:00-2:30 Savio Woo
Gene Therapy of Metabolic Diseases

2:45-3:15 Victor J. Dzau
Gene Therapy for Vascular Diseases

3:30-4:00 Graeme Bell /James Scott
Closing remarks

The symposium is open and free to the public.

For more information contact Christie Green

Christie Green
green@camis.stanford.edu
(415) 723-5451

Stanford's Beckman Center 7th Annual Program in Molecular Genetic Medicine Symposium held in conjunction with 5th Annual Bristol Myers Squibb Cardiovascular Symposium on MOLECULAR GENETICS OF COMPLEX CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC DISEASE

Monday-Tuesday, April 8-9, 1996 8:00 to 4:30 PM Organizers: V.J. Dzau, P. Berg, P. Corvol, G. Bell, J. Scott Final Fairchild Auditorium Stanford University Medical Center http://cmgm.stanford.edu/genemed