*** Awards & Travel Grants *** ICHG2016 [The 13th International Congress of Human Genetics]

Winners of Young Investigator Award

Tue(3)-YIA1-4: Biallelic truncating mutations in ALPK3 cause severe pediatric cardiomyopathy

Judith M.A. Verhagen: Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Netherlands

Tue(3)-YIA1-5: Genetic association study identifies common variation in PHACTR1 to associate with fibromuscular dysplasia

Nabila Bouatia-Naji: Paris Cardiovacular Research Center, INSERM, France

Tue(3)-YIA2-5: Visualizing structural variation at the single cell level to explore human genome Heterogeneity

Ashley D Sanders: BC Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, Canada

Winners of Best Poster Award

Tue(3)-P-78: Identification and Replication of Height Loci in African Ancestry Populations

Maggie C.Y. Ng: Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA

Tue(3)-P-101: WDR62/MCPH2 mutations identified in patients with primary microcephaly by a combined approach of exome sequencing and genome editing technology

Yoshinori Masatsuna: Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Japan

Wed(4)-P-140: Genome-wide association study identifies SESTD1 as a novel risk gene for lithium responsive bipolar disorder

Jie Song: Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Finalists of Young Investigator Award

Tue(3)-YIA1-1: Association between the literacy on genomics and health status; encouraging genomics education in personalized preventive medicine era

Sho Nakamura: Department of Clinical Oncology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine; Cancer Prevention and Control Division, Kanagawa Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan

Tue(3)-YIA1-6: Size-based molecular diagnostics using plasma DNA for noninvasive prenatal testing

Stephanie C. Y. Yu: Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital; Centre for Research into Circulating Fetal Nucleic Acids, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China

Tue(3)-YIA2-1: LAT2 transporter is involved in age-related hearing loss

Meritxell Espino Guarch: Experimental Genetics, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar; Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain

Tue(3)-YIA2-2: Whole-genome sequencing of monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia

Yu Fan: Kunming Institution of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Tue(3)-YIA2-3: Towards clinical accreditation of structural variation calling from HiSeq X whole genome sequencing data

Andre E Minoche: Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia

Tue(3)-YIA2-4: Thousands of novel translated open reading frames in humans inferred by ribosome footprint profiling

Anil Raj: Department of Genetics, Stanford University, USA

Tue(3)-YIA2-6: Genome-wide multi-phenotype analysis of rare variants boosts power for locus discovery and indicates novel rare variant effects from a known common variant locus on omega fatty acids

Marika Kaakinen: Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, UK

Finalists of Best Poster Award

Mon(2)-P-63: The B Lymphoid Tyrosine Kinase (BLK) gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to Kawasaki diseases

Chia-Jung Chang: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica; Graduate Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Mon(2)-P-238: A method for large scale screening of sex chromosome aneuploidies at birth

Marisol Ibarra-Ramirez: Genetics, Medicine School Of Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Tue(3)-P-49: Roles of Tyrosine Phosphorylation of histone H4 in Breast Cancer

Ruey-Hwang Chou: Graduate Institute of Cancer Biology, China Medical University, Taiwan

Tue(3)-P-204: Identification and Functional Analysis for Novel Gene Mutation Responsible for Autosomal Dominant Macular Dystrophy involved Dysfunction of ON-type Bipolar Cells

Yuichi Kawamura: Tokyo Medical Center, National Hospital Organization, National Institute of Sensory Organs; Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Tue(3)-P-207: A loss-of-function mutation in JAK1 is associated with epidermodysplasia verruciformis

Rongrong Wang: McKusick-Zhang Center for Genetic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences-Peking Union Medical College, China

Tue(3)-P-212: CHCHD2 is novel gene for autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease

Manabu Funayama: Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University; Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine; Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Japan

Tue(3)-P-260: Functional analysis of Xist long noncoding RNA using mouse artificial chromosome (MAC)

Daigo Inaoka: Department of Biomedical Science, Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biofunction, Graduate School of Medical Science, Tottori University, Japan

Wed(4)-P-273: Prediction of pregnancy with hypertensive disorders using epigenetic and biochemical markers

Jin Woo Kim: Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Cheil General Hospital and Women's Healthcare Center, Korea

Travel Grants Recipieuts

People named below has been selected to the Travel Grants.

*Alphabetical order of Family name

Travel Grants from ICHG2016

Anahit Hovhannisyan

(Armenia)
Rui Bi

(China)
Chao Chen

(China)
Yu Fan

(China)
Bei Gao

(China)
Fan Guo

(China)
Mengbiao Guo

(China)
Xiaobo Huang

(China)
Baichun Jiang

(China)
Lu Li

(China)
Dongjing Liu

(China)
Xiong-jian Luo

(China)
Qingtuan Meng

(China)
Zhuqing Wang

(China)
Jing Xu

(China)
Wei Xu

(China)
Yuan Yuan

(China)
Deng-Feng Zhang

(China)
Yongxin Zou

(China)
Aya AB. Elaidy

(Egypt)
Alaaeldin G. Fayez

(Egypt)
Rania M. Labib

(Egypt)
Rehab Mostafa. Mosaad

(Egypt)
Nicholas E. Thomford

(Ghana)
Ye Cao

(Hong Kong)
Miao Hu

(Hong Kong)
Jiangshan Shen

(Hong Kong)
Huoru Zhang

(Hong Kong)
Yan Zhang

(Hong Kong)
Bidisha Adhikary

(India)
Vellingiri Balachandar

(India)
Nidhan K. Biswas

(India)
Ramachandran Chandirasekar

(India)
Delfin Lovelina Francis

(India)
Amrita Anand. Iyer

(India)
Jeru Manoj. Manuel

(India)
Gomathi Mohan

(India)
Subramaniam Mohana Devi

(India)
Souvik Mukherjee

(India)
Siddhita S. Nare

(India)
Monika Pandey

(India)
Sanjeev Kumar. Pandey

(India)
Jhumur Pani

(India)
Ashwini Rajasekaran

(India)
Shantkriti S

(India)
Sabyasachi Senapati

(India)
Krati R. Shah

(India)
Sonika Sharma

(India)
Swarkar Sharma

(India)
Himanshu N. Singh

(India)
Dipanshu Sur

(India)
Vishnu Swarup

(India)
Sonam Tulsyan

(India)
Linda Koshy. Vaidyan

(India)
Balasubramanian Venkatesh

(India)
Padmavathi Vijaykumar

(India)
Zukhrofi Muzar

(Indonesia)
Almira Zada

(Indonesia)
Aref Sobhkhizy

(Iran)
Elsayed Abdelkreem

(Japan)
Hiroaki Aoki

(Japan)
Reiko Arakawa

(Japan)
Keiko Hatano

(Japan)
Ikumi Hori

(Japan)
Tomonori Hoshino

(Japan)
Akira Inaba

(Japan)
Seik-Soon Khor

(Japan)
Xiaoxi Liu

(Japan)
Yoshinori Masatsuna

(Japan)
Junko Minato

(Japan)
Yoshitaka Miyagawa

(Japan)
Masahito Mizuuchi

(Japan)
Masaharu Moroto

(Japan)
Eriko Ochiai

(Japan)
Yuri Sakaguchi

(Japan)
Takako Sasaki

(Japan)
Eri Takeda

(Japan)
Eun Kyung Cho

(Korea, South)
Sun Hee Heo

(Korea, South)
Yong Hee Hong

(Korea, South)
Ja-Hyun Jang

(Korea, South)
Hye In Kang

(Korea, South)
Minji Kang

(Korea, South)
Hyo-Won Kim

(Korea, South)
Jae-Min Kim

(Korea, South)
Yoo-Mi Kim

(Korea, South)
Younhee Ko

(Korea, South)
Sung Won Park

(Korea, South)
Adam Azlan

(Malaysia)
Shariq Ahmed

(Pakistan)
Shahzad Bhatti

(Pakistan)
Tehmina Nafees Sonia. khan

(Pakistan)
Muhammad Imran. Qadeer

(Pakistan)
Saira Shan

(Pakistan)
Muhammad Y. Zahoor

(Pakistan)
Asima Zia

(Pakistan)
Alvin B. Bello

(Philippines)
Loraine Kay D. Cabral

(Philippines)
Kevin Kent Vincent C. Canlas

(Philippines)
Jonathan P. Chan

(Philippines)
Sarah Peñafrancia L. Coralde

(Philippines)
Jose Lorenzo M. Ferrer

(Philippines)
Arman A. Ghodsinia

(Philippines)
Jian Kenzo O. Leal

(Philippines)
Joshua Reginald P. Malapit

(Philippines)
Marian Abigaile N. Manongdo

(Philippines)
Martin Daniel C. Qui

(Philippines)
Kenneth Anthony R. Roquid

(Philippines)
Arielle Kae L. Sulit

(Philippines)
Lech Havel O. Tizon

(Philippines)
Ryan Timothy D. Yu

(Philippines)
Yanni Chen

(Singapore)
Astrid Irwanto

(Singapore)
Saumya Jamuar

(Singapore)
Yu Jin

(Singapore)
Herty Liany

(Singapore)
Ryan Tan

(Singapore)
W. M. Manoj S. Bandara

(Sri Lanka)
Ya-Chin Lee

(Taiwan)
Yuan-Chung Lin

(Taiwan)
Yi-Shian Peng

(Taiwan)
Shi-Heng Wang

(Taiwan)
Jirat Chenbhanich

(Thailand)
Donniphat Dejsuphong

(Thailand)
Wipa Panmontha

(Thailand)
Meng-Shin Shiao

(Thailand)
Kornkiat Vongpaisarnsin

(Thailand)
Hatice Akar

(Turkey)
Mehmet B. Duz

(Turkey)
Emre Kirat

(Turkey)
Asuman Koparir

(Turkey)
Zeynep Ocak

(Turkey)
Iryna Dmytruk

(Ukraine)
Sergiy Kharchenko

(Ukraine)
Nguyen T.M. Huong

(Vietnam)
Quang Dinh. Vu

(Vietnam)

Travel Grants from ASHG

Ziv Gan-Or

(Canada)
Kana Hosoki

(Canada)
Christopher Newell

(Canada)
Ashley D. Sanders

(Canada)
Helio A. Costa

(USA)
Shen Gu

(USA)
Arbel Harpak

(USA)
Arthur Ko

(USA)
Ariel F. Martinez

(USA)
Anil Raj

(USA)

Travel Grants from APSHG

Sushil Kumari. Sangwan

(India)
Premala Muthukumarasamy

(Malaysia)
Muhammad Asif

(Pakistan)
Krizelle Mae M. Alcantara

(Philippines)
Mai T.P. Nguyen

(Vietnam)

Travel Grants from ESHG

Filip Zembol

(Czech Republic)
Maral Jamshidi

(Finland)
Csilla Sipeky

(Finland)
Nabila Bouatia-Naji

(France)
Caroline A. Biagosch

(Germany)
Ronja Hollstein

(Germany)
Loredana Poeta

(Italy)
Marisol Ibarra-Ramirez

(Mexico)
Magdalena Pelc

(Poland)
Meritxell Espino Guarch

(Qatar)
Stefan Barakat

(UK)
Marika Kaakinen

(UK)

Young Investigator Awards (YIA)

The 13th International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG2016) is pleased to provide Young Investigator Awards (YIA) for excellent studies based on the evaluation of your abstract and presentation at ICHG2016.

Eligibility:: Applicants for the YIA must be;
Under the age of 40 at the time of the congress, April 3 in 2016

Step 1	Submit an abstract.
Step 2	When you submit the abstract, indicate that you would like your abstract to be considered for the YIA. There will be a question asking you if you are interesting in applying for YIA or not.
Step 3	Complete the on-line registration by January 29, 2016.

Semifinalists will be notified in January by email. There will be an award ceremony at the closing ceremony.

Travel Grants for Asian Countries and non-Asian Developing Countries

The 13th International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG2016) is pleased to announce Travel Grants for young participants from Asia and developing countries. This is the first time that ICHG will be held in Asia and it will be a great opportunity for you to share your studies with participants from the entire world.

Eligibility:

Applicants for the Travel Grants for Asian countries and non-Asian Developing Countries must be;

Under 40 years old at the time of the congress, April 3 in 2016
From Asia or non-Asian Developing Countries*.
*Click HERE for a list of eligible countries.
Attend and present at the congress.

Step 1	Submit an abstract for poster presentation.
Step 2	When you submit the abstract, indicate that you would like your abstract to apply for the travel grants. There will be a question asking you if you would like to apply for the grants or not.
Step 3	Complete the on-line registration by January 29, 2016.

Selection will be based on evaluation of abstracts.

You will be notified in January whether or not you have been selected as the recipient of a Grant.

Grants:

JPY50,000 for Asia / JPY100,000 for other Developing Countries
Will be paid on-site in person only, after your presentation.
Payment will be made in cash.
The grant is not transferable, under any circumstances.

Please note that travel grants for other countries and areas may be provided by other IFHGS member societies. For more details, please inquire to the IFHGS member society you belong to.

Travel Awards for Trainee members of ASHG

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is pleased to announce it will support 10 trainee travel awards for the 13th International Congress of Human Genetics (ICHG 2016), to be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, from April 3-7, 2016.

For details, please click HERE.
Website link to ASHG