ICPGC Membership
Become a member
Please register your personal details to activate your membership to the International Cerebral Palsy Genomics Consortium. Membership is free.
ICPGC Working Group Activities
Panel App Australia – Cerebral Palsy
A crowdsourcing tool to allow panels to be shared, downloaded, viewed and evaluated by the greater scientific and medical community. All ICPGC are welcome to participate in curating genes associated with CP.
Version 1.36 is available here.
CP ClinGen Gene Curation Expert Panel
This group are reviewing genes associated with CP. All members of the ICPGC are welcome to join, and the group is keen for more biocurators, so please reach out if interested: clingen@clinicalgenome.org. Or head to the CP GCEP Home Page for more information.
Bioinformatics Working Group
The ICPGC Bioinformatics groups is currently working on ICPGC exome and genome pipeline standards.
ICPGC Meetings
ICPGC meetings are open to all those interested in CP genetics. These meetings offer researchers and clinicians to discuss their research with others in the field. For 2024, in lieu of a traditional single ICPGC meeting, we have several smaller satellite meetings on offer that are available in person or virtually.
2024 Meetings
ESHG 2024 (Berlin, Germany – Hybrid format)
Date: Sunday 2nd June, 2024, 2:15-3:45pm CEST
Workshop: Diagnosing cerebral palsy – who to test and how to manage a clinical vs genetic diagnosis.
Presenters: Dr Clare van Eyk (Chair), Prof Jozef Gecz (Co-chair), Dr Sid Srivastava, Prof Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann, and Dr Heather Pierce
Register here
AusACPDM 2024 (Cairns, Australia – Hybrid format)
Date: Thursday 1st August, 9:30am-11:00 AEST
Workshop: Genetic Causal Pathways to Cerebral Palsy: Insights and Implications
Presenters: Prof Gareth Baynam (Chair), Prof Jozef Gecz (Chair), Dr Clare van Eyk, Mr Dylan Gration, Dr Esther Tantsis, Prof Michael Fahey
Register here
AACPDM 2024 (Quebec, Canada – in person only)
Date: October 26th 2024,
Workshop: Recent Advances in the Genetic Architecture of Cerebral Palsy: What is a Clinician to Do?
Presenters: Dr Maryam Oskoui, Prof Darcy Fehling, Dr Richard Wintle, Prof Michael Kruer
Register here
Past Meetings
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: https://icpgc2018.medmeeting.org/en
2022 Virtual Meeting
There is a pre-conference workshop dedicated to International Genomics at the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and the International Alliance of Academies on Childhood Disabilities. This virtual meeting will be held on Tuesday 1 March, 2022 (AEDT Time: 8:00am – 12:30pm), with many speakers from the ICPGC.
For more information and registration details, please visit: https://bettertogether2022.org/
2019 Meeting
The next ICPGC meeting will be held in Anaheim, California, USA on the 17th-18th September 2019, hosted by The American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
For more information and registration details, please visit: https://www.aacpdm.org/meetings/2019/attendee/registration
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.