Cytogenomics

A graduate of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, Germany, Thomas Liehr became head of the Molecular Cytogenetic group at the Institute of Human Genetics in Jena in 1998. He is a molecular cytogeneticist with a research interest and more than 800 publications on inherited and acquired marker and derivative chromosomes, karyotype evolution, epigenetics including uniparental disomy, interphase architecture, heterochromatin, and probe set developments. In addition to being in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Dr. Liehr is on the Editorial Board of 16 other journals including the European Journal of Medical Genetics (EJMG) and Oncology Letters. Also, he is the Editor of the online journal Molecular Cytogenetics and has edited seven special issues for different journals. He is a past recipient of the Research Award for Young Scientists of the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, invited professor and honorary doctor at Yerevan State University, Armenia, and invited professor at Belgrade Medical School, Serbia. Also, he received the Golden Medal of the Yerevan State University in 2014, Golden Medal of the Research Center for Medical Genetics in 2019, and Medal in memory of Prof. Yuri Yurov in 2019 (see also http://cs-tl.de/TL.html).

1. A Definition for Cytogenomics – also may be called Chromosomics

SECTION 1: Technical Aspects 2. Overview of yet available approaches used in Cytogenomics 3. Cytogenetics 4. Molecular Cytogenetics 5. Molecular Combing solutions to characterize replication kinetics and genome rearrangements 6. Molecular Karyotyping 7. Sequencing approaches 8. Optical mapping and karyo-mapping 9. Application of CRISPR/Cas9 to visualize defined genomic sequences in fixed chromosomes and nuclei 10. Approaches for studying epigenetic aspects of the human genome

SECTION 2: Current Cytogenomic Research 11. Chromoanagenesis phenomena and their formation mechanisms 12. Topologically associated domains and other gene regulatory elements 13. Multilayer organization of chromosomes 14. Nuclear architecture 15. Nuclear stability in early embryo. Chromosomal aberrations 16. Cytogenomic landscape of the human brain 17. Interchromosomal interactions with meaning for disease 18. Shaping of genome by long non-coding RNAs 19. Repetitive elements, heteromorphisms and copy number variants 20. Epigenetics