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Confirmed Speakers for the 2012 Conference

  • Laura Almasy, Ph.D.
    Department of Genetics
    Texas Biomedical Research Institute
    Talk title: "Rare variants and the return of family studies"
  • John Gilmore, M.D.
    Thad & Alice Eure Distinguished Professor
    Department of Psychiatry
    University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Talk title: "The effect of schizophrenia risk genes on neonatal brain structure"
  • James Kennedy, M.D.
    Psychiatric Neurogenetics Section
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
    Toronto, Ontario
    Talk topic: Challenges in combining imaging and genetic data.
  • Carl Kesselman, Ph.D.
    Professor
    Epstein Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Director, Center for Medical Informatics
    Information Sciences Institute
    University of Southern California
    Talk topic: "Informatics challenges and potential solutions in collecting, storing, and analyzing large imaging and genetic datasets."
  • James Knowles, M.D., Ph.D.
    Professor and Associate Chair for Research
    Psychiatry & The Behavioral Sciences
    Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute
    Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
    Talk topic: Practical issues in analyzing sequencing data.
  • Rupert Lanzenberger, M.D.
    Head, Functional and Multimodal Neuroimaging - PET & fMRI
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
    Medical University Of Vienna
    Talk title: "PET in imaging genetics"
  • Fabio Macciardi, M.D., Ph.D.
    Professor
    Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    University of California, Irvine
    Talk title: "Are we ready for Imaging Genetics predictions at the individual level?"
  • Jason Moore, Ph.D.
    Third Century Professor of Genetics
    Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences
    Associate Director for Bioinformatics, Norris-Cotton Cancer Center
    Dartmouth Medical School
    Talk title: "Systems genetics approaches to neuroimaging phenotypes"
  • Steven Potkin, M.D.
    Director
    Brain Imaging Center
    University of California, Irvine
    Talk title: "Imaging GWAS: meaningful phenotype, controversial statistical threshold."
  • Judith Rapoport, M.D.
    Chief
    Child Psychiatry Branch
    National Institute of Mental Health
    Talk title: "Risk Genes and Brain Development - Focus on Childhood Onset Schizophrenia"
  • Daniel Weinberger, M.D.
    CEO
    Lieber Institute for Brain Development
    Maltz Research Laboratories
    Talk title: "Imaging networks and genetic networks"

Please read disclosure statement below.

Sixth International Imaging Genetics Conference January 18-19, 2010
Alessandro Bertolino Genetically determined dopamine signaling and risk for schizophrenia
MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bari, Italy
Vince Calhoun Multivariate analyses and simulations of multimodal imaging genetic datasets
PhD, Director, Image Anal. & MRI Res.: The MIND Institute, University of New Mexico
Tyrone Cannon Structural and functional connectivity in imaging genetics studies of schizophrenia.
PhD, Director, Staglin Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
Guia Guffanti Statistical analysis of interaction terms in GWAS: Permutation test methods
PhD, University of Milan, Italy
Trey Ideker Pathway Association: A New Paradigm for GWAS
PhD, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
Peter Kochunov Genetics of cerebral aging as seen from the neuroimaging perspective
PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Imaging Center and Department of Radiology, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Arthur Lander Systems Biology: What can it tell us about complex traits?
PhD, Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine
Jean-Baptiste Poline Large scale imaging genetics informatics and analyses in Europe
PhD, Neurospin, Institute of Biomedical Imaging, CEA
Steven G. Potkin Imaging genetics analyses of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
MD, Director, Brain Imaging Center, University of California, Irvine
Charles Smith Brain Image penetrance phenotyping in VCP disease an autosomal dominant cause of frontotemporal dementia
MD, Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) Memory Disorders Clinic, University of Kentucky
Daniel Weinberger Biological validation of clinical epistasis
MD, Senior Investigator, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health

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