This conference will bring together scientists and clinicians working on neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases to compare approaches used and the emerging lessons from both categories of disease.
Psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and depression, and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, are placing an increasing burden on the developed world. Technical advances over the past few years, including genome-wide association studies and next generation sequencing studies, have led to the discovery of many predisposing loci for both psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
This meeting will synthesise the advances and remaining challenges in the genomics of various brain disorders. We will discuss recent insights into genomic architecture and the emerging biology of disease. This year’s meeting will also highlight systems biology and modelling approaches, population studies and emerging tools and technologies. We will also discuss the use of genomics to drive therapeutics.
Programme
The conference will start at approximately 13:00 (BST) on Wednesday, 14 April and close at approximately 18:00 on Friday, 16 April 2021. All times are given in British Summer Time. See the time where you are here.
Topics will include:
- Genetic architecture
- Systems biology
- Population studies
- Modelling disease
- Tools and Technologies
- Using genomics to drive therapeutics
Registration
| Virtual conference rate | |
| Student | 50£ |
| Delegates from LMICs* | 50£ |
| Academic | 100£ |
| Commercial | 150£ |
The virtual registration package includes: Access to all live-streamed sessions (including poster sessions and online networking channels), as well as access to all sessions ‘on-demand’ for four weeks after the event.
* To increase the international diversity of attendees at our meetings, we have reduced fees for delegates from Lower and Middle Income Countries (see list of countries here)
Log in details for the virtual conference portal will be provided on Monday before the event.
https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-events/genomics-of-brain-disorders-2021/
