Coffee and tea will be served in AM and after lunch. Participants are responsible for their own lunches except for
Friday in which lunch will be served as part of the PALS lecture.
| TIME | TITLE | LECTURER |
|---|---|---|
| 0830-0900 | REGISTRATION/HOUSEKEEPING (iClicker assignment) | Stephen Yip/Sohrab Shah |
| 0900-1010 | Introduction to course & central dogma and beyond | Stephen Yip/Sohrab Shah |
| 1010-1025 | DICER aberrations in human cancers – clinical discovery and functional consequences | Michael S. Anglesio |
| 1030-1200 | Somatic mutations and cancer – a global view of disrupted genomes and dysregulated biology | Sohrab Shah |
| 1200-1300 | LUNCH | … |
| 1300-1430 | Sequencing technology – from sanger to illumina | Martin Hirst |
| 1430-1600 | Ethics in Genomics for Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Michael M. Burgess |
| TIME | TITLE | LECTURER |
|---|---|---|
| 0850-0900 | Feedback of ‘day 1’ talks | … |
| 0900-0950 | Genetic tests for cardiac disorders | Michael Seidman |
| 1000-1050 | Survey of practical somatic mutation testing and pathology considerations | Hector Li-Chang |
| 1100-1150 | ALK translocation in NSCLC | Anthony John Iafrate |
| 1200-1250 | BCCA ONCOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS (John Jambor Room – Vancouver Cancer Centre/BCCA) Implementation of clinical somatic mutation testing – The MGH experience |
Anthony John Iafrate |
| 1330-1420 | Fusion events in malignant gliomas – functional and clinical implications | Anthony John Iafrate |
| 1430-1520 | Breast cancer molecular diagnostic assays in current use | Torsten Nielsen |
| 1530-1630 | Personalized Oncogenomics – clinical translation of genomic discoveries | Janessa Laskin |
| TIME | TITLE | LECTURER |
|---|---|---|
| 0850-0900 | Feedback of ‘Day 2’ talks | … |
| 0900-0950 | Systems biology approaches to molecular research in cancer – TCGA | Sohrab Shah |
| 1000-1050 | Resources for human genome browsing (UCSC genome browser) | Ryan Morin |
| 1100-1150 | Basic approaches to determining human genome mutation data | Sohrab Shah |
| 1200-1300 | LUNCH | … |
| 1300-1400 | Pharmacogenomics: The problem, the science and the solution to enhancing drug safety in children | Bruce Carleton |
| 1400-1500 | Data resources for cancer genomics (TCGA portal, etc…) | Sohrab Shah |
| 1500-1600 | The functional impact of recurrently mutated genes for tumour progression and therapy resistance in B cell lymphomas |
Christian Steidl |
| TIME | TITLE | LECTURER |
|---|---|---|
| 0850-0900 | Feedback of ‘Day 3’ talks | … |
| 0930-1020 | Genomics in Medical Microbiology (introduction to concepts, applications and lab methods) |
Patrick Tang |
| 1030-1120 | Bioinformatics analysis of microbial WGS data – sequence analysis | William Hsiao |
| 1130-1220 | Bioinformatics analysis of microbial WGS data – comparative genomics | William Hsiao |
| 1230-1320 | LUNCH | … |
| 1330-1420 | Outbreak investigations using genomics data | Patrick Tang |
| 1430-1520 | Metagenomics in medical microbiology (microbiome and pathogen discovery) | Patrick Tang |
| 1530-1620 | Bioinformatics analysis of metagenomics data | William Hsiao |
| 1630-1650 | Future directions for genomics in microbiology | Patrick Tang/William Hsiao |
| TIME | TITLE | LECTURER |
|---|---|---|
| 0850-0900 | Feedback of ‘Day 4’ talks | … |
| 0900-1030 | Implementation of advanced molecular diagnostics into everyday pathology practice | David Huntsman |
| 1030-1200 | Panel discussion – faculties | |
| 1230-1330 | PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT LEARNING SERIES (PALS) PALS – patient advocate: lymphoma survivor |
Jackie Ellis |
| 1330-1400 | WRAP UP | Stephen Yip & Sohrab Shah |
“The UBC Pathology Genomics Core Teaching course is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”