AGENDA

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Welcome & Introduction Zhaoxia Ren, MD, PhD, Program Director, Division of Neuroscience and Behavior, NIAAA
9:05 a.m. Opening Remarks
Ting-Kai Li, MD, Director, NIAAA
9:20 a.m Keynote address: HapMap and the Genetics of Complex Disorders
Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director, NHGRI
10:20 a.m. Coffee Break

Session Chair: Lisa Brooks
10:35 a.m. Human Genetic Variation and Common Disease: A Short Term Approach for Improving Human Health
David Cox, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Perlegen Sciences, Inc.
11:15 a.m. Use of the HapMap Data
Lisa Brooks, PhD, Program Director, NHGRI
11:55 a.m. Lunch

Session Chair: Howard Edenberg
1:00 p.m. Imaging Genetics: Validating Effects of Genetic Variation in Living Brain
Daniel Weinberger, MD, Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH
1:40 p.m. Prospects for pharmacogenetics in neuropsychiatry
David D. Goldstein, PhD, Director of IGSP, Duke University
2:20 p.m. Comprehensive Candidate Gene Association Studies: SNPs, Haplotypes and Gene-Environment Interaction
Peter Kraft, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

Session Chair: Zhaoxia Ren
3:15 p.m. Association Studies to Identify Genes Affecting Risk for Alcoholism
Howard Edenberg, PhD, Chancellor's Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
3:55 p.m. From Haplotypes to Functional Loci to Behavior
David Goldman, MD, Chief, LNG, NIAAA
4:35 p.m. Use of Association Analysis to Confirm Linkage Findings for Substance Abuse
Kirk Wilhelmsen, PhD, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5:15 p.m. Discussion
Discussants: Howard Edenberg and David Goldman
5:35 p.m. Conclusion
Antonio Noronha, PhD, Director, Division of Neuroscience and Behavior, NIAAA