title: Summaries of plenary, symposia, and oral sessions at the XXII World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-16 October 2014.
abstract: The XXII World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, sponsored by the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics, took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12-16 October 2014. A total of 883 participants gathered to discuss the latest findings in the field. The following report was written by student and postdoctoral attendees. Each was assigned one or more sessions as a rapporteur. This manuscript represents topics covered in most, but not all of the oral presentations during the conference, and contains some of the major notable new findings reported.
authors.affiliation: aNORMENT, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway bPsychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Department of Psychiatry/Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston cStanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge dHarvard Medical School, Brockton VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, Massachusetts eCenter of Excellence in Neuroscience, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas fVirginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, Virginia gInstitute of Psychiatric Research, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA hMRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff iDivision of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh jWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton kDivision of Psychiatry, University College London lMolecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Division of Psychiatry, University College London mMRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK nDepartment of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong oH. Lundbeck A/S, Department of Synaptic Transmission, In Vitro, Valby, Denmark pDepartment of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg qDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, JW Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany rNational Institute of Mental Health and NeuroSciences, Bangalore, India sDepartment of Psychiatry, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SA MRC Centre for TB Research, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa tDepartment of Biosciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental
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