Workshop “Chromosomes in Medicine”

Workshop “Chromosomes in Medicine”
March 27th, 2015
Program
IMP lecture hall
09.30h
Josef Loidl (Department of Chromosome Biology, University of Vienna)
Welcome note
Dieter Schweizer (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology; University of
Vienna)
Biologists in Medicine
09.45h
Harry Scherthan (Institut für Radiobiologie Bw)
Chromosomes – the gold standard bioindicator of ionizing radiation exposure
10.45h
Coffee break
11.00h
Michael Speicher (Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University Graz)
The study of chromosomes: from banding to next-generation sequencing technologies
12.00h
Peter F. Ambros (Children’s Cancer Research Institute)
Opening the 'book' of the tumor genome - does it give new and applicable information?
13.00h
Lunch break
14.00h
Cagatay Günes (Leibniz Institute for Age Research, Fritz Lipmann Institute)
Telomerase abrogates aneuploidy-induced telomere replication stress, senescence and
stem cell depletion
15.00h
Thomas Taylor (Institute for Medical Genetics, Medical University Vienna)
Genetic Counselling and Risk Evaluation in Chromosomal Disorders
16.00h
Coffee break
16.20h
Jürgen Neesen (Institute for Medical Genetics, Medical University Vienna)
Chromosomal analyses in medical genetics - rare cases from clinical practice
17.20h
Rudolf Drescher (Metasystems)
From Cells to Chromosomes - Possibilities of automated microscopy in combination with
powerful imaging analysis software