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SCHEDULE- First Nyhan Symposium

 9 February, 2008
08:00 Bruce Barshop, MD, PhD
     Director, Nyhan Center 
Gabriel Haddad, MD
     Chair, Department of Pediatrics 		Welcome
 

Pioneers of Genetics at UCSD 

  
08:10 -
09:30
Ted Friedmann, MD Marilyn Jones, MD
Robert Hamburger, MD Michael Kaback, MD
Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD Jerry Schneider, MD
Perspectives from our outstanding senior faculty who helped build Genetics in the UCSD Pediatrics Department
 

“Scions of Nyhan”

 Research presentations from former trainees
09:30

Larry Sweetman, PhD
Director, Mass Spectrometry Unit,
Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, Texas

 Disorders of Organic Acid Metabolism<
10:05

Coffee Break 

  
10:25

Georg Hoffmann, MD
Chairman of Pediatrics,
University Children's Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

 Neonatal Screening in the 21st Century- Advances and Challenges
11:00

K. Michael Gibson, PhD
Director, Biochemical Genetics Laboratory,
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 Disorders of Neuro­transmitter Metabolism
11:35

Jon A. Wolff, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics,
University of Wisconsin

 Gene Therapy: In Vivo siRNA Targeting
12:05

Lunch
Box lunch provided for registered participants 
12:45

Jean-Marie Saudubray, MD
Professor Emeritus, Hôpital Necker Enfants-Malades,
Paris, France

 Diagnostic Approaches in Metabolic Disease
13:20

Magdalena Ugarte, MD
Department of Molecular Biology,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 Molecular Basis of Inherited Metabolic Diseases: Looking for New Therapies
13:55

Nadia Sakati, MD
Head, Section of Population Genetics,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 Infantile Autism
14:30 Coffee Break
14:45

Deborah Marsden, MD
Director, Global Medical Affairs,
Genzyme Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 Therapy for Lysosomal Storage Diseases
15:20

Charles Strom, MD
Medical Director, Genetic Testing Center, Nichols Institute, Quest Diagnostics, San Juan Capistrano, California

 High-Throughput Screening for Genetic Disease
15:55

Denise Ney, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition,
University of Wisconsin

 Glycomacropeptide Therapy of PKU
16:30

Adjourn