• HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Ethics, Law and Society Sequencing of individual Genomes: Impact on Society and Ethics, 1st - 3rd November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
  Soon an individual’s genome can be sequenced at accessible cost.  Like the availability of books provided by the printing press, the ease of communications by cell phones, and the access to information by the internet, access to information that is broad, deep, and personally significant changes society, its laws, and its sensibilities.  Complete sequence information of individual genomes raises questions about identity, privacy, genetic determinism, genetic sovereignty, and genetic pride. The concept of open source genetic information is a reality that will tax the legal framework just as much as internet freedom challenges legal tenets. Direct to Consumer genomics where a physician opinion is bypassed will be more common. The sequencing of genomes provides the substrate for synthetic biology in which entire organisms can be created de novo through stitching DNA together into entire genomes.
  This symposium explores the ethical, societal, and legal issues involving the accessibility of fast, inexpensive, and complete genomic sequencing.

• HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Bioeconomy, January 2010, Mexico City, Mexico

• HUGO Human Genome Meeting 2010, 18th - 21st May 2010, Montpellier, France
  HGM was first held in Heidelberg, in 1996, since then traveled to Toronto, HGM was first held in Heidelberg, in 1996, since then traveled to Toronto, Turin, Brisbane, Vancouver, Edinburgh, Shanghai, Cancun, Berlin, Kyoto, Helsinki, Montreal, Hyderabad and Montpellier, France this year.  The attendance is mainly drawn from the international scientific community – from academia & research laboratories to industries. A commercial exhibition will be held in conjunction with the scientific meetings which provides an excellent opportunity for new product launch as well as networking.

• 8th Human Genome Organization-Pacific Meeting and 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics, September/October 2010, Hong Kong, SAR China

• HUGO Symposium on Genomics and Hereditable Disorders, September/October 2010, Dubai, UAE

• 27th Congress of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research, October 2010, Singapore

Past Conference

• Genetics and Genomics of Infectious Diseases, 21st - 24th March 2009, Singapore
  More information at http://www.nature.com/natureconferences/ggid2009/index.html
• HUGO Human Genome Meeting 2008, Hyderabad India, 27th - 30th September 2008
  More information at http://hgm2008.hugo-international.org/
  
• IX Mutation Detection Symposium, 23 - 27 September 2007, Xiamen, China
  More information at http://www.genomic.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/xiamen/