INVITATION

Dear Geneticist(s), dear Colleague(s),

''AnEUploidy'' is the acronym of an Integrated Project (IP) funded by the European Commission within its Sixth Framework Programme under the thematic area “Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health”. This four years long project aims to contribute to the understanding of the molecular basis and pathogenic mechanisms of aneuploidies (see http://www.aneuploidy.eu). It is coordinated by Stylianos E. Antonarakis from the University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland and groups the multidisciplinary skills of 18 European and Israeli research groups.

With the aim of furthering the primary objectives of this project, the members of this consortium plan to organise twice during its lifetime an international workshop. The second of these AnEUploidy workshops will be held in Split, Croatia, September 16-19, 2010. It will also include 13 eminent invited speakers, outside the consortium. It should allow the members of the aneuploidy/CNV community to share views, progress, and ideas. It will also include a half day lay language presentations to Down syndrome associations, health specialists and parents.

We are therefore writing to you today to invite you to attend this meeting and further diffuse the present information to your peers.

Looking forward to meeting you in the historic setting of 1700 years of Mediterranean culture, the Croatian city of Split.

With best regards,

Organising Committee Presidents

Prof. Dean Nižetić, MD, PhD

Head of Cell and Molecular Biology Group

Centre for Paediatrics

Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science

Bart’s & The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine & Dentistry

University of London, UK

Assoc. Prof. Alexandre Reymond, PhD

Centre for Integrative Genomics
University of Lausanne
Switzerland