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14th Annual CBC Symposium
“Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders”

DATE: Friday, November 11, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: The University of Chicago
                 Ida Noyes Hall
                 1212 East 59th Street
                 Chicago, Illinois 60637

The 14th Annual CBC Symposium, titled “Genetics of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders,” will take place on Friday, November 11, 2016, at the University of Chicago campus. This all day event is organized by the leaders of the CBC Lever Award-funded Conte Center for Computational Neuropsychiatric Genomics: Ed Cook (UIC), Rick Morimoto (NU) and Andrey Rzhetsky (UChicago). The meeting will also include a poster session. The event is free of charge but pre-registration is required. Poster and registration deadline is: October 17, 2016.

Guest Speakers:
Mark Daly, Broad Institute
‘Dissecting the Genetic Architecture of Autism: Promise, Progress and a Path Forward’

Barbara Stranger, UChicago
‘Sex-Specific Characterization of the Genetic Architecture of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’

Dan Geschwind, UCLA
‘Integrative Genomics and Systems Biology in Neuropsychiatric Disease’

Chunyu Liu, UIC
‘Gene Expression Regulatory Networks and Psychiatric Disorders’

Peter Penzes, Northwestern
‘Molecular Analysis of the 16p11.2 Microduplication, a Major Risk Factor in Schizophrenia and Autism’

Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt
‘How Genome Investigation across the Medical Phenome Informs our Understanding of the Genetics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders’