COMMITTEES

Congress Organising Committee

DEPUTY CONGRESS CONVENOR
Dr David Maguire
Senior Lecturer
Genomics Research Centre
Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, Australia

CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Professor Lyn Griffiths
Director
Genomics Research Centre
Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

DEPUTY CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Associate Professor Julie McGaughran
Principal Geneticist
Queensland Clinical Genetics Service
Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

CHAIR, FINANCE COMMITTEE
Dr Phillip Montgomery
Executive Director Royal Perth Group
North Metropolitan Area Health Service, Perth, Australia

CHAIR, SOCIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Professor Agnes Bankier
Director
Genetic Health Services, Melbourne, Australia

Scientific Program Committee

Associate Professor Julie McGaughran
Deputy Chair
Queensland Clinical Genetics Service
Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Dr Ian Alexander
HGSA
Gene Therapy Research Unit
The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Australia

Professor Diana Bianchi
ASHG
Natalie V.Zucker Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Tufts-New England Medical Center, USA

Professor Han Brunner
ESHG (Netherlands)
Department of Human Genetics
University Hospital, The Netherlands

Professor Jose Maria Cantu
RELAGH
University de Guadalajara, Siena, Mexico

Professor Andy Choo
HGSA
Chromosome Research Lab, MCRI
University of Melbourne, Australia

Professor Michael Conneally
ASHG
Medical Genetics & Neurology
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

Associate Professor Denis Crane
Cell Biology, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies
Griffith University, Australia

Associate Professor Jenny Donald
HGSA / GSA
Department of Biological Sciences
Macquarie University, Australia

Associate Professor Jozef Gécz
HGSA
Neurogenetics Laboratory Women's & Children's Hospital, North Adelaide,
Australia

Professor Roberto Giugliani
RELAGH (Brazil)
Medical Genetics Service, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil

Professor Eric Haan
HGSA
South Australia Clinical Genetics Services, North Adelaide, Australia

Professor Jenny Graves
GSA
Comparative Genomics Research Group, Research School of Biological Sciences
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Professor Edison Liu
Singapore
Genome Institute, Singapore

Associate Professor Milan Macek Jr
ESHG (Prague)
Molecular Genetics Lab of Ntl Cntr Dg & Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis
Institute of Biology & Medical Genetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic

Associate Professor John MacMillan
ICHG 2006 Convenor
Queensland Clinical Genetics Service
Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Professor Sangot Marzuki
Indonesia
Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia

Professor John Mattick
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland, Australia

Associate Professor Sylvia Metcalfe
HGSA
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The University of Melbourne,
Australia

Professor Andres Metspalu
ESHG (Estonia)
Biotechnology, IMCB
University of Tartu, Estonia

Professor Harry Orr
ASHG
University of Minnesota, USA

Professor Michele Ramsay
South Africa
Molecular Genetics Laboratory
Dept Human Genetics, Johannesburg, South Africa

Professor Takehiko Sasazuki
EAUHGA
General Research Institute
International Medical Centre of Japan, Tokyo

Professor Peter Schofield
Neurobiology Research Program
Garvan Institute Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

Dr Graeme Suthers
HGSA
South Australian Clinical Genetics Services, Australia

Professor Veronica Van Heyningen
ESHG (Edinburgh UK)
Cell & Molecular Genetics Section MRC Human Genetics Unit
Western General Hospitals, Edinburgh, UK

Associate Professor Pornswan Wasant
Thailand
Division of Medical Genetics
Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok

Dr Dianne Webster
National Testing Centre
Auckland District Health Board, New Zealand

Dr Zhuohua Zhang
China
National Laboratory of Medical Genetics, China