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Bologna – Bejing Genome Institute Meeting - June 2, 2012 1988 SESTRI LEVANTE – FIRST COURSE IN MEDICAL GENETICS

Workshop Sestri - Levante Medical Genetics 1988

Workshop in Ronzano - Medical Genetics 2010

Excursion through the Cinque Terre -1988

Ronzano- Medical Genetics 2010 Ronzano - Medical Genetics 2011 HYBRID COURSES The network of RemoteTraining Centers in 2005

MTC – Main Training Center: Bertinoro (Italy) RTC – Remote Training Centers: Valladolid (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Rabat (Morocco), Tunis (Tunisia), Msida (Malta), Cairo (Egypt), Nicosia (Cyprus), Rama-Gan (Israel), Teheran (Iran)

ESGM Students (2000-2011) by Geographic Areas

ASIA; 1% AFRICA; 1% NORTH AMERICA; 1% OCEANIA; 0,2%

MIDDLE EAST; 15%

LATIN AMERICA; EUROPE; 67% 0,6%

EUROPE 3983 “SOUTHERN “SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEA MEDITERRANEAN N RIM “; 15% RIM” 868 LATIN AMERICA 33 MIDDLE EAST 883 NORTH AMERICA 60 ASIA 56 AFRICA 36 OCEANIA 10 TOTAL 5929 ESGM Students (2000-2011) - Europe Belgium Bosnia Herzegovina United Kingdom 2% 0,1% Czech 4% Republic Ukraine Albania Bulgaria Croatia Austria 2% 0,1% 0,4% 3% Switzerland 0,1% 1% 2% Denmark Sweden Estonia Slovenia 3% 1% 1% 4% Spain 7% Finland 3% France Serbia 2% Russia 0,5% 1% Romania 1% Portugal Germany 3% Poland 10% 1% Norway 2% Greece 2% Hungary 0,2% Netherlands 9% Iceland 0,1% Macedonia Ireland 0,1% 1% Lithuania 0,2% Latvia 0,2% Italy 35% Albania 3 Latvia 8 Austria 31 Lithuania 6 Belgium 94 Macedonia 1 Bosnia and Netherlands Herzegovina 2 374 Bulgaria 16 Norway 90 Croatia 105 Poland 44 Czech Republic 84 Portugal 104 Denmark 126 Romania 28 Estonia 29 Russia 41 Finland 100 Serbia 18 France 84 Slovenia 56 Germany 389 Spain 259 Greece 82 Sweden 156 Hungary 9 Switzerland 64 Iceland 5 Ukraine 4 Ireland 20 United Kingdom 172 Italy 1379 ESGM Students (2000-2011) - Middle East and “Southern Mediterranean Armenia 10 Rim” Bahrain 1 Bahrain Armenia Iran 448 Tunisia 0,1% 1% Israel 81 10% Jordan 3 Morocco Iran Kuwait 5 3% 26% Oman 5 Malta Pakistan 12 8% Palestine 11 Qatar 5 Libya Saudi Arabia 7 0,1% Syria 8 Lebanon Turkey 285 1% United Arab Emirates 2 Israel Algeria 2 5% Cyprus 129 Jordan Egypt 0,3% 350 Lebanon 17 Kuwait Libya 2 0,3% Egypt Malta 137 20% Pakistan Morocco 57 1% Tunisia 174 Qatar Oman Palestine 0,3% 0,3% Cyprus 1% 7% Turkey Syria Saudi Arabia 16% 0,5% 0,4% United Arab Emirates Algeria 0,2% 0,1% Cameroon 4 Ivory Coast 1 Nigeria 12 South Africa 17 Sudan 1 Tanzania 1 Australia 8 New Zeland 2 Bangladesh 3 China 9 Hong Kong 6 India 19 Indonesia 3 Japan 2 Korea South 1 Korea, Republic of 1 Malaysia 5 Singapore 3 South Korea 2 Sri Lanka 1 Taiwan 1 Canada 22 USA 38 Argentina 6 Brazil 9 Chile 1 Cuba 11 Mexico 2 Peru 1 Venezuela 3 ESGM Students (2000-2011) - Hybrid Courses Croatia 92 Cyprus 61 Croatia Turkey Czech 10% 7% 20 Cyprus Republic 5% Czech Republic Egypt 203 Tunisia 2% France 3 9% Greece 8 Iran 407 Malta 79 Morocco 12 Egypt Portugal 22 Spain 16% Spain 114 9% Tunisia 107 Portugal Turkey 125 2% Greece Total 1253 1% Morocco 1% France 0,2% Malta 6%

Iran 32% MEDICAL GENETICS 2007 ESGM ventesimo corso in Genetica Medica, Bertinoro (Italia), Maggio 2007. Al centro della foto Victor McKusick, vicino a Mr. Khatami, ex presidente dell’Iran, con alcuni studenti e faculty. Mario Capecchi, Premio Nobel per la Medicina nel 2007, bordo destro della foto.

Giuseppe Levi Trieste 1872 – Torino 1965

Salvador Luria Torino 1912 – Renato Dulbecco Lexington 1991 Catanzaro 1914 – Nobel Laureate La Jolla 2012 1969 Nobel Laureate 1975

Rita Levi Montalcini Torino 1909 Nobel Laureate 1986

James D. Watson Mario Capecchi Chicago 1928 Verona 1937 Nobel Laureate Nobel Laureate 1969 2007

Country Nationality th Azerbaijan 1 25 Course in Medical Genetics Belgium 1 Canada 1 Czech Republic 2 Azerbaijan Denmark 3 Belgium Estonia 1 Uk 2% 2% 2% France 3 Canada Czech Germany 5 Turkey 2% Republic 4% Greece 1 2% Iran 1 Denmark 6% Italy 4 Kuwait 2 Estonia 2% Norway 3 the Oman 1 Netherlands France Portugal 2 23% 6% South Africa 1 Germany 10% Spain 1 Sudan 1 Sweden 8% Sweden 4 the Netherlands 12 Turkey 1 Italy 8% Uk 1 TOTAL 52 Greece Sudan 2% 2% Spain 2% Iran 2% South Africa Norway 6% Kuwait 4% 2% Portugal 4% Oman 2%

Collaborative genomics for human health and cooperation in the Mediterranean region Ozcelik T, Kanaan M, Avraham KB, Yannoukakos D, Megarbane A, Ghazi O.Tadmouri, Middleton L, Romeo G, King MC, Levy-Lahad E . Nature Genetics 42: 641-645, 2010

Editorial of Nature Genetics 42: 639, 2010

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSANGUINITY

Towards the Discovery of Genes Predisposing to and Protecting from Disease

March 17-19, 2012, Al-Bustan Palace Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Course on Molecular and Statistical Genetics of Consanguinity

13-16 May, 2012

EuroMediterranean University Center of Ronzano Bologna (Italy)

Directors: L. L. Cavalli-Sforza (Milan, Italy), C. Cannings (Sheffield, UK), G. Romeo (Bologna, Italy)

(visit: www.eurogene.org)

Family Name! Name! Affiliation! Nationality! e-mail! Abu Rayyan! Amal! Bethlehem University! Palestinian! [email protected]! Ajaz! Mubasshir! University of Bedfordshire! Canadian! [email protected]! Al Rashdi! Samiya! Sultan Qaboos University! Omani! [email protected]! Alabri! Abdulrahim! Sultan Qaboos University! Omani! [email protected]! Kuwait Medical Genetic center, Alkanderi! Sumaya! Ministry of Health! Kuwaiti! [email protected]! Alkhayat AlShehi! Aisha! Sultan Qaboos University! Omani! [email protected]! Al-Muftah! Wadha! Imperial College London! Qatari! [email protected]! Al-Saud! Haya! Imperial of ! Saudi ! [email protected]! Al-Shekaili! Hilal! Omani! [email protected]! Alwadaani! Amal! Clinical geneticist! Kuwaiti! [email protected]! Aslam! Muhammad! Technical University Munich! Pakistani! [email protected]! Baptista! Julia! University of Bologna! Portuguese! [email protected]! Beccani! Caterina! University of Pisa! Italian! [email protected]! Belelli! Matteo! University of Florence! Italian! [email protected]! Human Genetics Foundation Fiorito! Giovanni! Turin! Italian! giovanni_fi[email protected]! Hoffman! Joe! Bielefeld University! English! [email protected]! Karstensen! Helena! Univeristy of ! Danish! [email protected]! Kelmemi! Wided! University of Tunis! Tunisian! [email protected]! Melotte! Cindy! University of Leuven! Belgian! [email protected]!

M'rad! Ridha! University of ! Tunisian! [email protected]! Nõukas! Margit! Estonian! [email protected]! King Khalid National Guard Shawli! Aiman! Hospital! Saudi ! [email protected]! Tattini! Lorenzo! University of Florence! Italian! [email protected]! Vuckovic! Dragana! Italian! [email protected]! Weinberg! Ariella! The Hebrew University! Israeli! [email protected]! GIUSEPPE LEVI (1872 – 1965)

Albero genealogico-culturale di Capecchi

Giuseppe Levi Trieste 1872 – Torino 1965

Salvador Luria Torino 1912 – Renato Dulbecco Lexington 1991 Catanzaro 1914 – Nobel Laureate in La Jolla 2012 1969 Nobel Laureate in 1975

Rita Levi Montalcini Torino 1909 Nobel Laureate in 1986

Mario Capecchi Verona 1937 James D. Watson Nobel Laureate in Chicago 1928 2007 Nobel Laureate in 1969