During the training courses the main topics of the meeting and the practical parts were presented by the stuff of the university in collaboration of Imagine Institute, including: Prof. Alain Hovnanian, Dr. Valerie Cormier, Dr. Jeanne Amiel, Dr. Tania Atie-Bitach, Dr. Véronique Pingault, Dr. Laurence Jonard, Dr. Giulia Barcia, Dr. Christine Bole, and Dr. Patrick Nitschke.

The summary of the main activities were: 

- the guided tour in the out-patient clinical departments of Imagine Institute as part of the UPD and in the genetic diagnostic department of the Necker Hospital as the biggest child hospital in Europe,

- participation in genetic counseling, clinical examination, genetic diagnostics and  treatment activity of clinical cases with

> intellectual disability,

> autism,

> mitochondrial disorders,

> epilepsy,

> congenital malformations,

> skeletal dysplasias, and

> developmental abnormalities caused by neural crest defects,

- introduction of genomic and bioinformatics platforms for gene panel, whole exome and whole genome sequencing,

- participation and discussion in next generation sequencing approaches for diagnostic and research purposes at Imagine Institute,

- introduction and discussion of prenatal and preimplantation diagnostic methods and approaches applied in the Necker Hospital.

Training Agenda