International Society for Applied Biological Sciences (ISABS)
"7th ISABS Conference in Forensic, Anthropologic and Medical Genetics and Mayo Clinic Lectures in Translational Medicine"
Bluesun hotel ELAPHUSA, Bol, Island of Brač, Croatia, June 20-24, 2011

For more information about invited speakers, please click here.

Christopher Asplen ● Gordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs, Washington, DC and DNA 4 Africa, Chalfont, PA, USA
 „International perspectives on forensic DNA databases“

Dušica Babović-Vuksanović ● College of Medicine, Mayo, Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 
"Clinical genetics in individualized medicine"

Zwi Berneman ● University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium "Dendritic cell vaccination in leukemia and AIDS"

Frederick Bieber ● Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
"Forensic analysis of DNA data banks: process, progress, and prospects"

Nicolai Bovin ● Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation 
"Diagnostic potential of antiglycan autoantibodies"

Malcolm Brenner ● Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA 
"Implementing complex biological therapies in academic centers" ,"Increasing safety and practicality of cell-based immunotherapy"

Zoran Budimlija ● Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY, USA 
"Identification of Missing Persons and Mass disaster victim identification by DNA" ,"Chimerism and Forensics – Examples and Importance"

Theresa Caragine ● Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY, USA 
"Estimating the number of contributors to two-, three-, and four-person mixtures containing DNA in high template and low template amounts"

Filippo Castiglione ● NRC Institute for Computing Applications, Rome, Italy
"Mathematical modeling and optimal control of dendritic cell transfection cancer immunotherapy"

Katja Drobnič ● Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, UM and National forensic laboratory, MNZ Slovenia 
"Perspectives and pitfalls of mRNA profiling for identification of menstrual blood and vaginal secretion"

Moran Elishmereni ● Institute for Medical BioMathematics, Bene Ataroth, Israel 
"A validated mathematical model of systemic IL-21 immunotherapy in solid cancers for the design of beneficial treatment regimens"

Henry Erlich ● Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA, USA 
"HLA polymorphism, disease susceptibilty, and pharmacogenetics" "Resolution of DNA mixtures and degraded DNA by Next-Generation Sequencing"

Christopher Evans ● Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA , "Gene therapy for arthritis",  "Gene therapy for bone and cartilage healing"

Matthew Ferber ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
 "Clinical NextGen Sequencing of hereditary colon cancer genes"

Dennis Gastineau ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 
"A day at the Human Cell Therapy Laboratory, Mayo Clinic"

Arezou Ghazani ● Harvard Medical School and Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA "Advances in Molecular Diagnostics: Role of Nanotechnology and Future Perspectives"

Esther Guetta ● Danek Gertner Institute of Human Genetics, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel 
"Application of Free Nucleic acids in Maternal Blood for Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis: Techniques, Advantages and Limitations"

Karin HaLevi ● Institute for Medical BioMathematics, Bene Ataroth, Israel
"A method for in-treatment personalization of cancer immunotherapy"

Carol Henderson ● Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL, USA
“Legal and Ethical Aspects of Bloodstain Pattern Evidence”

Thierry Hennet ● Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
"Congenital disorders of glycosylation, from genotypes to therapies"

Mitchell Holland ● Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, PA, USA
"Applications of Second Generation DNA Sequencing for Forensic DNA Analysis"

Stipan Jonjic ● Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
"How viruses can teach us to make better vaccines and vaccine vectors"

Sree Kanthaswamy ● California National Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
"Non-human forensic genetics"

David Kaye ● Eberly College of Science, Penn State University, PA, USA
"Kinship Matching with DNA Databases (aka “Familial Searching”): Legal and Ethical Arguments"

Manfred Kayser ● Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Human appearance: genetic basis, DNA prediction, and forensic application"

Ofer Klein ● Rebecca Sieff Medical Center and BioCep, Ltd., Safed, Israel
"The CEP as Innovative Method for Isolation of Fetal Nucleated Red Blood Cells enabling non-invasive prenatal diagnosis – A New Era in Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis"

Jean-Pierre Kocher ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
"Integration of multiple data types obtained from genomics experiments: challenges and opportunities"

Yuri Kogan ● Institute for Medical BioMathematics, Bene Ataroth, Israel
"Improving alloreactive CTL immunotherapy for malignant gliomas using a mathematical model"

Gunnar Kvalheim ● Norwegian Radium Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
"Dendritic cell based cancer vaccines targeting the tumor stem cells"

Doron Lancet ● The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"Variogenomics - human individual variation as the cornerstone of next-generation genomics"

Gordan Lauc ● Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia
"Antennary fucosylation of plasma proteins is a reliable diagnostic marker for HNF1A-MODY: Translation of a glycome-GWAS hit into a clinically useful screening tool"

Henry Lee ● The Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA
"DNA evidence in famous case"

Hakon Leffler ● Lund University Hopsital Sölvegatan, Lund, Sweden
"Galectin binding glycoforms of serum proteins, a functional biomarker in cancer and inflammation"

Henning Madry ● Saarland University Hospital and Saarland University Faculty of Medicine, Homburg, Germany
"Regeneration of cartilage defects using gene-based approaches and tissue engineering of cartilage based on genetically modified cells"

Damir Marjanović ● Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Genos, Zagreb, Croatia
"DNA of ancient skeletal remains from old Bosnian graves"

Boris Martinac ● Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
"In search of novel types of antibiotics by targeting bacterial mechanosensitive channels"

Marilyn Menotti-Raymond ● National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
"Genetics of coat patterns in the domestic cat"

Timothy Palmbach ● The Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA
"A retrospective analysis of cold-case investigations"

Giorgio Palù ● University of Padova, Padova, Italy
"Virus-host interactions: The role of microRNA in tumorigenesis and immune evasion"

Jef Pinxteren ● ReGenesys, Heverlee, Belgium
"Adult stem cells as bologics delivery platform for ischemic injury"

Giulio Pompilio ● University of Milan, Milan, Italy
"Cell therapy for myocardial refractory ischemia with bone-marrow-derived CD133+ cells: translational path and preliminary results"

Dragan Primorac ● University of Split and University of Osijek, Croatia; The Pennsylvania State University and University of New Haven, USA
"From dust to dust: Forensic DNA analysis"

Erdmann Rapp ● Max Planck Institute for Dynamic of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany
“Tools for the glycome analysis in the post-genomic era”

Pauline Rudd ● The National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training, Dublin, Ireland
"Systems glycobiology: From genome to glycome an integrated strategy for identifying and screening potential clinical markers"

Antti Sajantila ● University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
"Post mortem pharmacogenomics - concepts, cases and research"
"Genetics of sudden death"

Moses Schanfield ● George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
"A review and update of forensic statistics"

Eliezer Shalev ● Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
"Early Prenatal Diagnosis - an Overview"

Stavit A. Shalev ● Human Genetic Center, Ha’emek Medical Center, Afula and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
"Genetic assessment of pregnancies with increased nuchal translucency and normal karyotype"

Artemis Simopoulos ● The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, DC, USA
"Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics in personalized nutrition and medicine"

David I. Smith ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
"The Next Generation Sequencing Revolution"
"Next Generation Sequencing of oropharingeal cancers"

Daniela Steinberger ● Institute of human genetics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen and biologis, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Personal genomics services (PGS): Digitalization of expert genetic knowledge and possible consequences"

Mark Stoneking ● Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
"High-throughput sequencing of complete human mtDNA genomes: insights into population history and heteroplasmy"

Ron Tepper ● Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel
"Early Fetal 3D Ultrasound Examination"

Andre Terzic ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
"Stem cell platforms for heart repair"

Carmen Terzic ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
"Prediction of pathophenotype through transcriptome deconvolution"

Peter Underhill ● Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
"A Y chromosome perspective of post-glacial human migrations in southeast Europe"

Daniel Vanek ● Forensic DNA Service, Prague, Czech Republic
"Famous DNA lineages from the perspective of archaeogenetics and genetic genealogy"

George Vasmatzis ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
"Molecularly defined Cancer Subtypes using NextGen Sequencing"

Richard Villems ● University of Tartu and Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
"An attempt to place the Balkans on the canvas of genetic variation of West Eurasia and North Africa"

Samuel Volchenboum ● University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
"New systems biology tools for cancer diagnostics"

Stanimir Vuk-Pavlović ● College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
"Impairment of cellular immunity in human cancer"

Eske Willerslev ● University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
"What is to be learned from ancient DNA?"

George Wu ● University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
"A practical immunocompetent animal model of hepatitis C viral infection"

Manfred Wuhrer ● Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
"Glycosylation profiling for biomarker discovery of autoimmune and alloimune diseases"

Simcha Yagel ● Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
"First trimester screening for trisomy 21 with ultrasound and biochemical markers vs. fetal cell free nucleic acids in maternal serum"

Kristin Young ● University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
"The Basques in the Genetic Landscape of Europe"

TBA - to be announced