Day 1: December 13, 2013 (Friday)
Lecture Theatres 2-4, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre

8:00 - 8:45	Registration
8:45 - 9:00	Opening Ceremony - Officiating address by Professor Roland T Chin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost - Welcoming address by Professor Gabriel M Leung, Dean of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine - Group Photo
Chairpersons: Professor Ronald A Li, Physiology, HKU   Professor MH Sham, Biochemistry, HKU
9:00 - 9:45	Special Session - Keynote Lecture I: Nuclear reprogramming by eggs and oocytes: a potential route towards cell replacement therapy Professor Sir John Gurdon University of Cambridge, UK [2012 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine]
Chairpersons: Professor Johanna Rommens, University of Toronto   Professor Kathryn SE Cheah, Biochemistry, HKU
9:45 - 10:15	Lap-Chee Tsui: A picture worth 10,000 words Professor Stephen Scherer University of Toronto, Canada
10:15 - 10:45	Tea Break
Genomics and Populations
Chairpersons: Professor Richard Fielding, School of Public Health, HKU   Professor PC Sham, Centre for Genomic Scienecs, HKU
10:45 - 11:15	Keynote Lecture II:  HGP, -omics, and their impacts Professor Huanming Yang Beijing Genomics Institute, China
11:15 - 11:45	Keynote Lecture III: People of the British Isles: a model study of detailed population genetic structure Professor Sir Walter Bodmer University of Oxford, UK
11:45 - 12:15	Keynote Lecture IV:  Fragile X syndrome: 70 years of surprises Professor David L Nelson Baylor College of Medicine, USA
12:15 - 12:45	Keynote Lecture V:  Detection of clinically relevant genetic variants in autism spectrum disorder Professor Stephen Scherer University of Toronto, Canada
12:45 - 14:15	Lunch
Hunting Disease Genes
Chairpersons: Professor David Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine   Professor SL Ho, Medicine, HKU
14:15 - 14:45	Keynote Lecture VI: Elucidating the genetic basis of intellectual disability Professor Hans-Hilger Ropers Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
14:45 - 15:15	Keynote Lecture VII:  Genomics of brain diseases Professor Guy Rouleau McGill University, Canada
15:15 - 15:45	Tea Break
Chairpersons: Professor Gert-Jan van Ommen, Leiden University Medical Center   Professor Dennis YM Lo, Chemical Pathology, CUHK
15:45 - 16:15	Keynote LectureVIII:  The interplay of ABC transporters in bile formation: lessons learned from knockout mice Professor Victor Ling The University of British Columbia, Canada
16:15 - 16:45	Keynote Lecture IX: An integrative approach to understanding congenital disorders of the digestive system Professor Paul KH Tam The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
16:45 - 17:15	Keynote Lecture X: Understanding disease etiology through genomics Professor Aravinda Chakravarti Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Day 2: December 14, 2013 (Saturday)
Lecture Theatres 2-4, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre

8:30 - 9:00	Registration
From Disease Gene Discovery to Mechanism
Chairpersons: Professor Guy Rouleau, McGill University   Dr MM Garcia Barcelo, Surgery, HKU
9:00 - 9:30	Keynote Lecture XI: From understanding neural plasticity to drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases Professor Nancy YY Ip The University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
9:30 - 10:00	Keynote Lecture XII: Unravelling the molecular pathogenesis of congenital skeletal dysplasias Professor Kathryn SE Cheah The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
10:00 - 10:30	Tea Break
Chairpersons: Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research   Professor Maria L Lung, Clinical Oncology, HKU
10:30 - 11:00	Keynote Lecture XIII: The faces of translational insufficiency in Shwachman-Diamond syndrome Professor Johanna Rommens University of Toronto, Canada
11:00 - 11:30	Keynote Lecture XIV:  The molecular basis for replication-induced DNA damage in early stages of cancer development Professor Batsheva Kerem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Genomic Medicine
Chairpersons: Professor Victor Ling, University of British Columbia   Dr HL Chen, Microbiology, HKU
11:30 - 12:00	Keynote Lecture XV: “Consortium for the globalization of Chinese Medicine” (CGCM) could serve as a platform promoting the study of Chinese Medicine employing Omics, including the genomics approach Professor Yung-chi Cheng Yale School of Medicine, USA
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:00	Keynote Lecture XVI: Non-vaccine approaches to HIV prevention Professor David D Ho The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, USA
14:00 - 14:30	Keynote Lecture XVII:  Extracellular DNA in plasma: from science to clinical applications Professor Dennis YM Lo The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
14:30 - 15:00	Tea Break
Chairpersons: Professor Batsheva Kerem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem   Professor Johanna Rommens, University of Toronto
15:00 - 15:30	Keynote Lecture XVIII: Discovering drugs for and with patients: expanding exon skipping Professor Gert-Jan B van Ommen Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
15:30 - 16:00	Keynote Lecture XIX:  Stem cell approach for the treatment of hemoglobin and other diseases Professor Yuet-wai Kan University of California, San Francisco, USA [2004 Shaw Laureate in Life Science and Medicine]
Public Open Forum
16:00 - 18:00	What I have learned in the last two days Professor Lap-chee Tsui Vice-Chancellor The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong An open forum on Genetics, Genomics and Society Convener: Professor Sir Walter Bodmer Panel members: Professors Sir Walter Bodmer, Aravinda Chakravarti, Lap-Chee Tsui and Dr Stephen Lam