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The FECC meeting is accredited by the Italian “Educazione Continua in Medicina” (ECM) ,Continuing Medical Education (CME). An overall of 23  credits will be offered to MD and PhD post-doc, while 21 credits will be given to technicians of the biomedical laboratory. No extra application fee is needed. Credits will only be given to those who have registered to attend the FECC meeting. Those who wish to achieve the credits should register on site signing up in advance of each session and get the materials. They should give back the filled up multiple choice tests  at the completion of the meeting.

Program Objective

The sessions will present recent advances on discoveries and investigations in cytogenetics specialty areas such as cancer cytogenetics including genomic instability and mutagenesis, clinical cytogenetics, including prenatal and preimplantation cytogenetics and chromosomally caused sterility and reproduction defects. Animal and plant cytogenetics and karyotype evolution will be also covered. Special focus will be addressed to genomic sites preferentially involved in chromosome rearrangements, chromosomal mosaicism, chromosomal structure and nuclear domains, imprinting and epigenetics, emerging biotechnologies and laboratory services and management.

Target Audience

This meeting is intended for all professionals involved in research and teaching in  cytogenetics and diagnostic tests in the different subfields of human cytogenetics (prenatal, postnatal and preimplantantion, cancer)