Collaborative Symposium – September 12th-13th 2016
Professor Carole Ober, PhD, Chair of the Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Professor Dan Nicolae, PhD, Chair of the Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
Professor Donata Vercelli, MD, Director of Arizona Center for the Biology of Complex Diseases, University of Arizona
PROGRAM
DAY 1 – September 12th
Plenum
Kirurgvillaen – Gentofte Hospital, 59A
10:00 AM
Keynotes
Carole Ober, PhD
A Systems Biology Approach to Studying Genetic and Epigenetic Components of Asthma
10:45 AM
Donata Vercelli, MD
An epigenetic trajectory from birth to childhood asthma
11:25 AM
Dan Nicolae, PhD
Methodological challenges in disease genetics
12:00 PM
Klaus Bønnelykke, MD, PhD
COPSAC cohort – overview
12:45 PM
LUNCH
The Early Microbiome
1:30 PM
Søren J Sørensen, PhD, Professor of Biology
Microbial Synergism
Jakob Stokholm, MD, PhD
Fecal microbiome and childhood asthma
2:30 PM
Prenatal Risk Factors
Hans Bisgaard, MD, DMSc
Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy
Jakob Stokholm, MD, PhD
Prenatal risk factors and asthma and allergy
Helene Wolsk, MD
Prenatal risk factors and local airway immunity
Hans Bisgaard, MD, DMSc
PUFA supplementation during pregnancy
Anders Gorm P, PhD, Professor in Bioinformatics
Bayesian analyses in COPSAC
Sandwiches and Snacks
PROGRAM
DAY 2 – September 13th
Focused Workshop
COPSAC apartment
10:00 AM
Morten A. Rasmussen, PhD
Integrative Analyses in COPSAC2010
Jonathan Thorsen, MD
Airway Microbiome and Childhood Asthma
11:00 AM
Plenum
Workshop on specific NIH project plans
1:00 PM
LUNCH
Susanne Brix, PhD, Ass. Prof., Immunology
Immune Assessments in COPSAC
Johannes Waage, PhD
Genetics of Allergic Rhinitis – Meta-GWAS
2:45 PM
Continued workshop on NIH and other collaborative projects
