Programme “Connective Tissue Genetics”
08.45	Registration
09.15	Welcome
	CHAIR: A. DE PAEPE (UG), M. PARMENTIER (ULB)
09.30-10.00	Bone in balance and imbalance	W. Van Hul (Antwerpen)
10.00-10.30	Multiple roles of the elastic matrix in morphogenesis and homeostasis	F. Ramirez (New York)
10.30-11.15	Coffee break and poster session
	CHAIR: G. VAN CAMP (UA), M. VIKKULA (UCL)
11.15-11.45	Epidermolysis bullosa : from genes to symptoms and therapy	L. Bruckner-Tuderman(Freiburg)
11.45-12.15	The callipyge phenotype : paradigm of non-Mendelian inheritance	M. Georges (Liège)
12.15-12.45	Mutation detection and identification using Applied Biosystems	M. Wijker (ABI)
12.45-13.15	Lunch and poster session
13.15-14.15	General Assembly
	CHAIR: M. ABRAMOWICZ (ULB), K. KEYMOLEN (VUB)
14.15-15.30	Selected oral communications
14.15	N. De Temmerman : Disease-causing CTG triplet repeat instability in human gametes and preimplantation embryos
14.30	N. Maas : The analysis of 4p chromosomal abnormalities using micro-array CGH
14.45	L. Meeus : Characterization of a novel loss-of-function mutation of PAX8 in a familial case of congenital hypothyroidism by dysgenesis
15.00	H. Peeters : PA26 is a cause of human heterotaxia
15.15	C. Spits : Multiplex-PCR for polymorphic markers linked to FBN1-gene : application in PGD for Marfan syndrome
15.30-16.00	Coffee break and poster session
	CHAIR: V. BOURS (ULG), K. DEVRIENDT (KUL)
16.00-16.30	Scar-free wound healing	M. Ferguson (Manchester)
16.30-17.00	Novel proteome strategies : their potential impact on biomedical research and medicine	J. Vandekerckhove (Gent)
17.15	End of the meeting