Agenda is subjected to changes
Time | Day 1, 3 November 2022 |
8.00 | Registration |
8.50 | Opening Address |
9.00 | Keynote Psychosis: Progress in understanding complex brain disease Steven E. Hyman, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, USA |
10.00 | Break |
10.30 | Plenary The design of clinical data collection in molecular genetic studies of psychiatric illness Kenneth Kendler, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
11.15 | Clinical Neurosciences Transdiagnostic network analysis of negative symptoms (Virtual) Raymond Chan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Chairperson: Dr Jimmy Lee, Institute of Mental Health |
12.00 | Lunch |
13.30 | Plenary Clinical-course Phenotypes in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Eric Chen, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
14.15 | Clinical Neurosciences Brain network breakdown in neuropsychiatric disorders and at-risk individuals Helen Zhou, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Chairperson: Dr Jimmy Lee, Institute of Mental Health |
14.45 | Clinical Neurosciences Discovering the biology of major psychiatric disorders in India Biju Viswanath, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India |
15.15 | Break |
15.45 | Education Scalable analysis of DNA sequence data and its applications in brain-disorder studies Anne Feng, National Taiwan University & Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA |
16.15 | Education Transplanting Emotional Variance Analysis from learning to mental health prediction Wilson Goh, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
17.00 | End |
Time | Day 2, 4 November 2022 |
8.00 | Education Genetics of Human Complex Disorders Hailiang Huang, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA |
8.30 | Education Leveraging human pluripotent stem cell models to study neuropsychiatric disorders Ralda Nehme, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA Olli Pietiläinen, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA & University of Helsinki, Finland Chairperson: Hailiang Huang, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
9.00 | Plenary Genetic Studies of Brian Disorders: Singapore Perspective Jianjun Liu, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore |
10.00 | Break |
10.30 | Genetics Cognition as a window into psychopathology and beyond Max Lam, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA & Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Chairperson: Hailiang Huang, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
11.00 | Genetics Strategies for large scale genome health collections, examples from Finland Aarno Palotie, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA & University of Helsinki, Finland |
11.30 | Genetics Functional Interpretation of GWAS Chunyu Liu, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA |
12.00 | Lunch and Poster Session |
13.30 | Plenary Disease mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for SNAREopathies, syndromes caused by mutations in presynaptic genes Matthijs Verhage, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands |
14.15 | Translational Neurosciences FEZ1 deletion contributes to human brain development disorders John Chua, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Chairperson: Jai Polepalli, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore |
14.45 | Translational Neurosciences A synapsin SNP associated with schizophrenia impairs synaptic function (Virtual) George Augustine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
15.15 | Break |
15.45 | Translational Neurosciences Evaluating the use of neurosteroids as potential treatments for schizophrenia in mouse models Peiyan Wong, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Chairperson: Jai Polepalli, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore |
16.15 | Translational Neurosciences Sleep EEG signatures of Schizophrenia patients – the GRINS study Jen Pan, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA |
17.00 | End |
Time | Day 3, 5 November 2022 |
8.00 | Plenary Human brain organoids and the quest to understand neuropsychiatric disease (Virtual) Paola Arlotta, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA & Harvard University, USA |
9.00 | Plenary Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics Naomi Wray, University of Queensland, Australia |
10.00 | Break |
10.30 | Genetics Genomic insights into disease-associated non-coding variants Yin Shen, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, USA Chairperson: Max Lam, Institute of Mental Health |
11.15 | Genetics Genetics of major depressive disorder: dissecting mechanism from 500 SNP associations Cathryn Lewis, King's College London, UK |
12.00 | Farewell |
Confirmed Speakers
Steven E Hyman
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Harvard University, USA
Kenneth Kendler
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Raymond Chan
China Academy of Sciences, China
Eric Chen
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Helen Zhou
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biju Viswanath
National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India
Anne Feng
National Taiwan University
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Wilson Goh
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hailiang Huang
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Ralda Nehme
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Olli Pietiläinen
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
University of Helsinki, Finland
Jianjun Liu
Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR, Singapore
Max Lam
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
Aarno Palotie
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
University of Helsinki, Finland
Chunyu Liu
SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA
Matthijs Verhage
Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands
John Chua
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
George Augustine
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Peiyan Wong
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jen Pan
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Paola Arlotta
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Harvard University, USA
Naomi Wray
University of Queensland, Australia
Yin Shen
Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Cathryn Lewis
King's College London, UK