14.30 - 17.45 Thursday, 12 October – Bartók Hall
15:00 Beyond frontiers (address by IPGS Founder)
Andras J. Pellionisz (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
PostGenetics: Genetics beyond Genes. The journey of discovery of the function of "junk" DNA
15:00 - 15:25 Malcolm J. Simons From Immunology to PostGenetics
(Geelong, Victoria, Australia)
From Gene Diploidy to Genomic Haploidy: A major challenge of the post-gene 2nd century, exemplified by HLA and KIR Immunogenes
15:25 - 15:45 Durdica Ugarkovic (Zagreb, Croatia) Functional elements in non-coding satellite DNAs
16:15 - 16:30 Marta Szell et al. (Szeged, Hungary)
Identification and characterization of a novel, psoriasis-susceptibility-related non-coding RNA Gene, PRINS
16:30 - 16:45 Sonja Vogl et al. (Vienna, Austria), Walter Battistutti (Cambridge, UK)
Introns and their Cross-Talk on the post-transcriptional level, and their impact on treatment for Muscular Dystrophy
16:45 - 17:00 Andras Falus et al. (Budapest, Hungary) Micro RNA pattern in melanoma suggests a role of non-coding genome in melanoma spreading and metastases
17:00 - 17:15 Francois Strauss and Claire Gaillard (Paris, France)
Genome organization in higher eukaryotes: encoding of genetic information by non-protein-coding DNA
17:15 - 17:30 Tamas Aranyi (Budapest, Hungary)
The constant variation: DNA methylation changes during preimplantation development
17:30 - 17:45 Christian Schoenbach (Nanyang Technical University, Singapore)
Canonical and Non-canonical Mechanisms in Generating Protein Diversity