Parallel Sessions

Tuesday, 19 April, 2016 - 11:00 to 13:00

Chair

Carolyn Brown
Carolyn Brown
University of British Columbia
Human Genetics

Genetics of Mental Health

Rudolf Uher

Genes and environment in the development of mental health and illness

Rudolf Uher
Dalhousie University
Nova Scotia AB
Sébastien Jacquemont

Genomics in the neurodevelopmental and psychiatric clinic

Sébastien Jacquemont
Nova Scotia AB
Arturas Petronis

Epigenomics of Complex Psychiatric Disease

Art Petronis
Professor, Epigenetics, CAMH and University of Toronto
Nova Scotia AB
Catrina Loucks

The Ciliary Protein, EFHC1, Implicated in Epilepsy, Functions at the Cilium and Synapse to Modulate Dopamine Signalling

Catrina Loucks
PhD Student, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University
Poster: 2
Amirthagowri Ambalavanan

De novo Variants in Sporadic Cases of Childhood Onset Schizophrenia

Amirthagowri Ambalavanan
PhD Candidate, Human Genetics, Mcgill University
Poster: 13
Statistical Genetics

Immunology: Bioinformatics for Microbiome Analysis

Robert Beiko

Aging, frailty and the microbiome: new methods, new insights

Robert Beiko
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Nova Scotia CD
Jacques Corbeil

Blending microbiome, machine learning and big data analytics

Jacques Corbeil
Professor, Molecular Medicine, Université Laval
Nova Scotia CD
John Parkinson

Functional characterization of microbiomes: Challenges and opportunities

John Parkinson
Senior Scientist, Molecular Structure and Function, Hospital for Sick Children
Nova Scotia CD
Gabriel André Leiva-Torres

An N-Ethyl-N-Nitrosourea Induced Mutation in the GNL1 GTPase Causes an NK Cells Deficiency and a Susceptibility to Cytomegalovirus

Gabriel André Leiva-Torres
PhD candidate, Human Genetics, McGill University
Poster: 55
Kyoko Yuki

Identification of Novel Salmonella Susceptibility Loci using N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) Mutagenesis

Kyoko Yuki
McGill University
Poster: 31

Sponsored by CIHR III and CIHR NMHA