CME COURSE AREAS AND COORDINATORS
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| Chair Person of the CME activities: |
R. Coppo |
| Assistants: |
G. Spasovski, I. Rychlik |
| Basic Science & Clinical Nephrology: |
R. Coppo, P. Ronco |
| Chronic Renal Failure, Hypertension, Clinical Epidemiology: |
C. Zoccali, G. M. London |
| Dialysis: |
R. Vanholder, S. Davies, C. Wanner |
| Transplantation: |
C. Ponticelli, J.M. Grinyo |
| Collaboration with ISN and other Societies: |
N. Lameire, A. Covic |
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| Date |
| March 30th- April 1st, 2009 |
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| Location |
EuroMediterranean University Centre of Ronzano, Bologna (Italy)
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| Organising Societies |
European Genetics Foundation in collaboration with ReGeNet (Renal Genome Network) and ERA-EDTA |
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| Local Coordinator |
| Giuseppe Curcio, E-mail: giuseppe.curcio@eurogene.org |
| Phone. +39.(0)51.5870614 - Fax +39.(0)51.5870611 |
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| Short Description |
The course is focused on genetic association studies and it is addressed to clinical researchers in nephrology with a special interest in genetics who are involved in studies in which patient data both on clinical characteristics (phenotype) and DNA (genotype) are available for analysis. |
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| Travel Grant |
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| To apply for travel grant please click here |
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| Details/General Information |
For updates, programme and online registration please visit the “Courses” section of
EGF website www.eurogene.org
or click here for the pdf Announcement |
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| Course Programme |
Day 1 (March 30): Basis and background
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch and registration
13.30 - 13.45 General introduction of the course (Lecturer: Friedo Dekker)
13.45 - 16.00 Lectures on basics of genetics (Lecturer: Martin Schalling)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee/tea
16.30 - 18.00 Introduction and hands on session on SNP identification
(Lecturer: Marieke de Visser; support: Juan Jesús Carrero)
18.00 - 18.30 Summary of the day in CKD perspective and focus of the course
(Lecturer: Gerjan Navis)
18.30 - Drinks and diner
Day 2 (March 31): Genetic association studies
08.30 - 09.30 Lecture on cohort studies (Lecturer: Kitty Jager)
09.30 - 10.00 Coffee/tea
10.00 - 11.00 Lecture on case-control studies (Lecturer: Carla Vossen)
11.00 - 12.00 Lecture on confounding (Lecturer: Friedo Dekker)
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Hands on session on study design (Support: Carla Vossen en Marion Verduijn)
(Coffee / tea available at 14.45)
15.00 - 16.00 Lecture on haplotypes, Haploview, tagging (Lecturer: Marieke de Visser)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee/tea
16.30 - 17.30 Lecture on genome wide association studies (Lecturer: Jeffrey Barrett)
17.30 - 18.30 Lecture on QTL association studies (Lecturer: Mario Falchi)
18.30 - Drinks and Diner
Day 3 (April 1): Beyond the basics
08.30 - 09.15 Lecture on Mendelian randomization (Lecturer: Marion Verduijn)
09.15 - 10.00 Lecture on gene-environment interaction (Lecturer: Juan Jesús Carrero)
10.00 - 10.15 Coffee/tea
10.15 - 11.00 Lecture on false positive findings, multiple testing, replication
(Lecturer: Friedo Dekker)
11.00 - 11.45 Lecture on epigenetics (Lecturer: Peter Stenvinkel)
11.45 - 12.00 Coffee/tea
12.00 - 13.00 Concluding lecture: reflection on genetic research in CKD, and future perspectives (Lecturer: Gerjan Navis)
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch and departure |
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