סימפוזיון 19.10.17

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19
From 9:00-20:00
Free Registration

SHLEZAK AUDITORIUM
Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Light refreshments will be served

Collaborative Cross Symposium:
The Genetic Basis of Host Response to Complex Traits Using the CC:
From Animal Models to Translational Applications

Program:
09:00-09:30 — Arrival and welcome

• Prof. Ehud Grossman, Dean, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, TAU
• Prof. Fuad A. Iraqi, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, TAU

09:30-11:00 — First session

•  “Assessing host response to intrabacterial infection using CC mice”- Prof. David Threadgill, Texas A&M University, USA
•  “Dissection of host susceptibility to variety of infectious diseases”- Prof. Xavier Montagutelli, Pasteur Institute, France
•  “The CC mice for studying periodontitis and translation to hu-man”- Prof. Arne Schafer, Charité, University of Berlin, Germany

11:30-13:00 — Second session

•  “The status of USA mouse colony and its use for identification of complex traits”- Ms. Darla Miller, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
•  “RNAseq analysis of complex traits using the CC mice and novel software tools“- Prof. Aristotelis A. Chatziioannou, NHRF, Greece
•  “The CC mice for studying systems genetics of infectious and chronic diseases “- Prof. Fuad A. Iraqi, Tel Aviv University, Israel

13:00-14:00 — Lunch
14:00-16:30 — Third session

•  “Type 2 diabetes development and the DNA methylation ven-ue”- Prof. Asaf Helman, Hadassah Medical School, Israel
• “Genetic Variation in the hepatic expression of drug disposition genes”- Prof. Irit Gat-Viks, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv Univer-sity, Israel
•  “CC mice for studying breast cancer development”- Prof. Ilan Tsarfaty, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
•  “Genome-wide association study in CC mice reveals a role for Rhbdf2 in skeletal homeostasis” - Dr. Yankel Gabet, Sackler Facul-ty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
•  “Immune cellular homeostasis is determined by genetic variants of cellular production and turnover” - Prof. Shai Shen-Orr, Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel

17:00-19:30 — Fourth session

•  “The power of the CC mice for studying host response to perio-dontitis”- Dr. Aysar Nashef, School of Dental Medicine, Hadassah, Israel
•  “Using the CC mouse population for studying ZIKA viral infection”- Prof. Clayton Davis, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
•  “Identifying genetic factors underlying the development of type 2 diabetes and associated diseases using CC mouse popula-tion”- Dr. Hanifa J. Abu-Toamih-Atamni, Sackler Faculty of Medi-cine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
•  “The power of the CC mouse population for studying phar-macogenomics” - Ms. Ruba Yehia, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
•  Ro

Organizer: Prof. Fuad Iraqi. For information contact: Naomi Caplan at nmcaplan@post.tau.ac.il

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