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EGG-UK 2005 Meeting - 23rd February
2005
Date: Wednesday 23rd February 2005
Venue: Leolin Price, Institute of Child Health,
London
Time: 10:00 - 16:45
Details: Tea, coffee & lunch provided. Registration at 09:30
Registration: Please email Isabelle Russell-Eggitt Eggitl@gosh.nhs.uk
No registration on the day - only invited and pre-registered
delegates/members
Programme (produced by Andrew Webster, Hon Con Ophth/Sen Lect and Isabelle Russell Eggitt, Con
Ophth)
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09:30
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Registration/Coffee
£40 (please bring cash or cheque - no credit cards)
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10:00
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Opening Remarks - Susie/Andrew |
| 10:05 |
X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) in the clinic - the impact of
genetic testing - Professor Dorothy Trump |
| 10:30 |
XLRS genetic testing - Dr Jo Whittaker,
Cambridge |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Coffee |
| 11:15 |
The MRC gene service and whole genome amplication -
Dr Cheng Eng Ang |
| 11:50 |
The Illumina platform and the advent of full genome
association scans - Sandy McBean |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 |
The UK-GTN history, philosophy and future -
Professor Peter Farndon, Birmingham |
| 14:15 |
An 'Eye-Genetic Strategy Document' - Helen
Stewart, Oxford |
| 14:30 |
Progress in laboratory testing for XLRP and Sorsby. Future
service developments in RP - Simon Ramsden, Jacqueline Rice and Nicki Hart-Holden,
Manchester |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Tea |
| 15:15 |
Consultation cases and discussion issues - members of EGG.
Approximately 10 minutes each:
- Jo Allard, Oxford - Dept of Health initiative for genetic
counselling; genetic testing in childhood
- Patrick Watts, Cardiff
- Zubin Saihan, London - The National Collaborative Usher Study -
purpose and progress
- David Robinson, Salisbury
- Sharon Jenkins, London - a family with a rare form of retinal
degeneration
- Robert Henderson, London - Leber's Congenital Amaurosis - the
genotype-phenotype correlations of RPE65
- Kevin Gregory-Evans, London - When two wrongs DO make a
right
- Cheryl Gregory-Evans, London
- Susie Downes/Andrea Nemeth, Oxford
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| 16:45 |
Summary and Close |
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Proposed date and venue for next meeting:
February 2006 in Manchester
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