PROGRAMME

Thursday, August 9, 2001
Gloria Auditorium



TIME

SPEAKER

GENERAL INFO


9.30

Leif Groop

Type 2 diabetes - a collision between genes and a hostile environment. The first 10 years of the Botnia Study


10.00

Eric Lander

Dissection of the genetic complexity of type 2 diabetes


10.30

David Altshuler

Common variants in candidate genes for type 2 diabetes


11.00

Coffee/Tea break


11.30

Joel Hirschorn

QTL analysis of type 2 diabetes related traits


12.00

Mark McCarthy

Type 2 diabetes susceptibility in the UK:
Findings from the Warren consortium


12.30

Lunch


13.30

Åke Lernmark

Genetics of type 1 diabetes


14.00

Tiinamaija Tuomi

Genetic interaction between type 1 and type 2 diabetes


14.30

Andrew Hattersley

Monogenic forms of diabetes: the past, the present
and the future


15.00

Coffee/Tea break


15.30

Johan Eriksson

Environmental triggers of type 2 diabetes


16.30

Leena Peltonen

Search for genes behind complex diseases in Finland


17.30- 18.30

Lectures for the public

Åke Lernmark:Vad förorsakar Typ 1 diabetes?
Leif Groop: Vad förorsakar Typ 2 diabetes?


18.30

Reception at the City Hall


20.00

Dinner (Strandpaviljongen)