5emes Assises de Genetique Humaine et Medicale

(Translated by Google)
Dear colleagues,
It is a tremendous honor for all geneticists to Strasbourg to receive the 5th Sitting of Human Genetics from 28 to 30 January 2010.
The soul Rhine, Europe`s heart and mind from Alsace will seduce you. Our region has earned its position by nature and history at the crossroads of cultures and traditions of Franco-German now become the cement of the dynamics of the Upper Rhine region.
History of Medicine at Strasbourg and its many famous people is intimately linked to that of Alsace. Our city is rich with a long university tradition that finds its roots in the humanism of the Renaissance with Gutenberg and the earliest works including medicine. The academic history and medicine is marked by famous figures that illustrate the alternation Germanic and French from our past: JF. Lobstein, pioneer of pathology who described the "sick men of Glass; Friedreich Daniel Von Recklinghausen professor of pathology of the Kaiser Wilhelm Universit t of Strasbourg where i ld crivit the first case of neurofibromatosis and hemochromatosis; surgeon Otto Wilhelm Madelung dyschondroplasie with the radio-ulnar. The student`s most illustrious of this alternation is certainly Albert Schweitzer, physician, theologian and Nobel Peace ... Let`s recall also that Louis Pasteur was a professor at the Faculty of Sciences from 1848 to 1854. For 50 years, genetic research is particularly developed in Strasbourg, from the basics on the various model organisms to human genetics and medicine, and more recently with the genetic mouse model for human disease.
Our city and our region have other advantages. Traces of the past have profoundly marked the city whose epicenter is the cathedral with its inescapable single arrow. Many museums, traditional, historical, artistic quench your thirst for culture after reading the various historic districts as the picturesque district of "Little France" (medieval site where patients infected with syphilis ... "bad French" ... were hospitalized ). European capital, our city is proud to help build Europe in all its dimensions as reflected in the European district facing the future with its prestigious institutions you will discover. Finally, the culinary arts is a cult practiced especially in winstubs (wine bars), many in the old city, combining traditional cuisine and wine tasting. We extend our warmest greetings of welcome to all for a memorable 5th edition of Focus on Human Genetics in Strasbourg rich in science and culture in Alsace and European!
H l ne Dollfus, President of the Organizing Committee
Jean-Louis Mandel, President of the Scientific Committee