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)

09:30

Registration/Coffee
£40 (please bring cash or cheque - no credit cards)

10:00

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
16:45 Summary and Close
 

Proposed date and venue for next meeting:
February 2006 in Manchester

 

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