ICPGC News + Activities
ICPGC News
ICPGC Meetings
2017 Meeting
The inaugural ICPGC meeting was held at Umbrae House in Adelaide, South Australia in March 2017. The meeting was hosted by the Australian Collaborative Cerebral Palsy Research Group, under the leadership of Emeritus Professor Alastair MacLennan and Jozef Gecz. The meeting was sponsored by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance and brought together researchers from all over Australia, China, Canada, Sweden, Turkey, Spain and the United States of America to establish a collaborative research network and discuss the development on an online database dedicated to CP genomics.
2018 Meeting
The next ICPGC meeting will be held in the Henan Province, China in April 2018, hosted by The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University and Fudan University.
For more information and registration details, please visit: http://icpgc2018.medmeeting.org/en
ICPGC Research
- MacLennan AH, Kruer MC, Baynam G, Moreno-De-Luca A, Wilson YA, Zhu C, Wintle RF, Gecz J; members of the International Cerebral Palsy Genomics Consortium. Cerebral palsy and genomics: an international consortium. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2018 Feb;60(2):209-210. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.13643.
ICPGC Research Opportunities
Clinical Data Working Group
Develop information models used to describe the clinical phenotype of individuals with CP for use in genomic medicine.
CONTACT: info@icpgc.org
Bioinformatics Working Group
Develop statistical models, pipeline standards, and bioinformatics tools to help the consortium achieve its goals.
CONTACT: info@icpgc.org
Functional Validation Working Group
Streamlining functional validation workflows for molecular or biological assay.
CONTACT: info@icpgc.org