September 22 to 25, 2010

Palais des Congrès/Montréal Convention Centre, Canada

Congress Program Overview

Consisting of lectures, symposia and poster sessions, the scientific program will provide an intensive focus on the pathogenesis of human and animal diseases. Under the Congress theme « Gene-environment interaction in health and disease », special emphasis will be placed on diseases, technologies, tools and novel therapeutic approaches.

Topics Include

I-Pathophysiological pathways of health and diseases
Ageing - Cancer - Cardiovascular, hypertension and renal diseases - Diabetes, Obesity,  Metabolic syndrome and endocrine diseases - Gastrointestinal diseases - Inflammation, infection and immune system diseases - Lung diseases - Neurodegenerative diseases and pain - Regenerative medicine

II-Novel pathophysiological approaches and tools
Novel animal models - “Omics” tools including Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics, Ecogenomics, Epigenomics and Pharmacogenomics - Systems biology and signal transduction

III. Novel therapeutic/diagnostic pathophysiological targets
Biomarkers and molecular diagnosis - Drug targets -Therapeutic targets-Diseasome

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Program Summary

Plenaries

• Overview of gene environment interaction in health and disease
• Pharmacogenomics in drug discovery
• Systems Biology
• International Okamoto Awards Lectures
• Diseasome

Symposia

• Pathophysiological pathways: Gastrointestinal and lung diseases
• Pathophysiological pathways: Metabolism and Cancer
• Novel pathophysiological approaches and tools: ‘Omics’ tools including
  genomics, trancriptomics, proteomics and pharmacogenomics
• Pathophysiological pathways: Neurodegenerative disease and pain
• Pathophysiological pathways: Inflammation, infection and immune
  system diseases
• Pathophysiological pathways: Ageing
• Novel Diabetic Therapeutic pathways
• Biomarkers and drug targets in diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
• Novel animal models and genetic modification techniques in the rat
• Novel pathophysiological approaches and tools: From genes to Systems biology and signal transduction
• Genetics and metabonomics of cardiometabolic diseases
• Therapeutic targets
• Novel pathophysiological approaches and tools: Gene-environment interactions including genomics, epigenomics and environmental exposure
• Genome technologies and use of rat networks to understand human diseases
• Regenerative Medicine of cardiovascular diseases

Workshops

• Impact of environmental exposures on the reproductive system
• Impact of environmental exposure on public health
• Pathophysiological Mechanism relating to unspecific back pain – an update
• Purinergic Signaling in Health and Disease
• Dietary salt, cardiotonic steroids, hypertension and renal disease
• Cell volume regulation
• Epithelial / Mesenchymal Transition/Organ fibrosis and the myofibrolast
• Dysfunction of glial cells in neuronal pathologies

Educational Breakfast workshop

• Frontiers in Biomedical Education: Etiopathogenetic Clusters

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Poster Sessions

Poster sessions are being provided to offer a further means of sharing information from colleagues from around the globe regarding past experiences, new ideas and innovations. Posters will be grouped by themes and sub-themes and presented in the exhibition
hall for the duration of the Congress.

Specific sessions will allow author(s) to present their posters and interact with other
Congress participants. More information will come as the website will evolve.