Nobel Prize 2007 meeting
Gene Targeting in Mice
Date | Thursday, July 10, 2008, 13:00 - 17:00 |
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Location | The Lundbeck Auditorium, Copenhagen Biocenter, Ole Maaløes vej 5, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Organizers | Tuula Kallunki, Danish Cancer Society and Steen Gammeltoft, Glostrup Hospital |
Program
13.00 – 13.05 |
Tuula Kallunki, Danish Cancer Society: Welcome. |
Session 1: |
Homologous recombination in embryonal stem cells |
13.05 – 13.50 |
Nobel lecture: Oliver Smithies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA: Gene targeting approaches to complex genetic diseases. |
13.50 – 14.30 |
Josef M. Penninger, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria: From a little knock-out mouse to global understanding of bone metabolism. |
14.30 – 15.00 |
Nadia Rosenthal, Mouse Biology Unit, EMBL Monterotondo Outstation, Monterotondo, Rome, Italy: The mouse ascending: perspectives for human-disease models. |
15.00 – 15.30 |
Refreshments |
Session 2: |
Knockout mice in biomedical research |
15.30 - 16.00 |
Marc Caron, Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA: Genetic Animal Models of CNS Disorders: Implications for therapies. |
16.00 – 16.30 |
Henrik Semb, Stem Cell Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden: Gene targeting in human embryonic stem cells: properties and applications. |
16.30 – 17.00 |
Lars Bo Nielsen, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark: Mouse models to study a new apolipoprotein (apoM) affecting lipoprotein metabolism and atherosclerosis. |
17.00 – 17.30 |
Cord Brakebusch, Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, Copenhagen Biocenter, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, Copenhagen, Denmark: Function of Rho GTPases in skin. |