Science Programme – Psychiatric genetics

09:00 – 09:30 Registration with coffee

09:30 – 09:40 Introduction by the organisers

Chair:

Ian Jones (Cardiff University, UK)

Friday 4 April 2014

Speakers:

09:40 – 10:20 Michael Owen (MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff, UK)

The nature of psychiatric disorders

10:20 – 11:00 Cathryn Lewis (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, UK)

Using statistical genetics to identify novel risk variants for psychiatric disorders

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Chair:

Lawrence Wilkinson (Cardiff University, UK)

Friday 4 April 2014

Speakers:

11:30 – 12:10 J. David Sweatt (University of Alabama, USA)

Epigenetic Mechanisms in Memory Formation

12:10 – 12:50 Marcus Munafo (University of Bristol, UK)

Understanding gene-environment interactions

12:50 – 13:20 Genetics Society AGM

13:20 – 14:20 Lunch

Medal:

14:20 – 15:00 Jonathan Flint (Oxford University, UK)

The genetic basis of anxiety in rodents

Genetics Society Medal Lecture

Chair:

David Linden (MRC CNGG, Cardiff, UK)

Friday 4 April 2014

Speakers:

15:00 – 15:40 Ricardo Dolmetsch (Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA)

Insights into the brain of a child with autism

15:40 – 16:20 Henrik Walter (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)

In search of intermediate phenotypes: Imaging genetics of the major psychoses

16:20 – 16:45 Coffee Break

Chair:

Jamie Lewis (MRC CNGG, Cardiff, UK)

Friday 4 April 2014

Speakers:

16:45 – 17:25 Ilina Singh (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL, London)

Psychiatric Genetics and Early Intervention

17:25 – 18:00 Hank Greely (Stanford University, USA)

Psychiatric Genetics: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues

18:05 – 18:15 Concluding remarks and open discussion

18:15 – 19:00 Wine reception