Thursday

Thursday 30th April, 15:30 – 17.00 (BST)

Neuroscience & Young Investigators Session

Session Chairs: Dr. Sarah Marzi & Dr. Topher Hübel

15:30–15:45 | Dysregulation of histone acetylation in Alzheimer's disease (Dr. Sarah Marzi, Imperial College London)

15:45–16:00 | Zebrafish to investigate brain development (Prof. Robert Hindges, King's College London)

16:00–16:15 | iPSC in schizophrenia research (Dr. Kristen Brennand, Mount Sinai, New York)

16:15–16:30 | Network signature of complement component 4 variation in the human brain identifies convergent molecular risk for schizophrenia (Dr. Michael Gandal, University of California Los Angeles)

16:30–16:45 | Genetic Identification of Cell Types Underlying Brain Complex Traits Yields Insights Into the Etiology of Parkinson’s Disease (Dr. Julien Bryois, Karolinska Institutet)

16:45–17:00 | Analysis of signal from GWAS of Alcohol and Nicotine Behaviors Provides Targets for Laboratory Research (Alexander Hatoum, University of Colorado Boulder)

Thursday 30th April, 17:15 – 19:45 (BST)

Keynotes

Session Chairs: Gerome Breen & Topher Hübel

17:15–17:45| Million Veteran Program (MVP) (Prof. Joel Gelernter, Yale School of Medicine)

17:45–18:15 | Psychiatric phenotyping in the UK Biobank (Prof. Matthew Hotopf, King's College London)

18:15–18:45 | Depression Grand Challenge (Prof. Michelle Craske, University of California Los Angeles)

18:45–19:15 | Extracting biological insights from genetic associations: application of model systems (Prof. Abraham Palmer, University of California San Diego)

19:15-19:45 | New developments in genome sequencing, arrays and the response to COVID-19 (Dr. Coralie Vacher and Dr. Cerissa French, Illumina)