When: April 4th to 7th, 2022.
Organizers: IBPS – CNRS
NS2: Genetic approaches for the study of neuropsychiatric disorders
Confirmed speakers
Catalina Betancur – IBPS-CNRS, FR (Organizer)
Kaitlin Samocha – Massachusetts General Hospital, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard,
Boston, USA
Michael Talkowsky – Massachusetts General Hospital, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard,
Boston, USA
Mark Daly – Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, FI
Nael Nadif Kasri – Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, NL
Laura Huckins – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Tjitske Kleefstra – Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud
University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, NL
Joseph Buxbaum – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Sarah Blackford – BioScience Careers, DE
Topics
Complex genetics – basic concepts and approaches;
Genetics of autism spectrum disorder;
Leveraging population resources to improve rare variant interpretation in
developmental disorder patients;
Copy number variants in neuropsychiatric disorders;
Genetics of schizophrenia – rare variants;
Neurons are talking… are you listening? Modeling neurodevelopmental
disorders in a dish;
Genetics of schizophrenia – common variants;
Genetics of intellectual disability;
Getting from gene to therapy in neuropsychiatric disorders;
Workshop – Case studies and critical thinking in neuropsychiatric genetics;
Career Development: Career planning and the job market.
