Invited Speakers
(in alphabetical order)
Scientific sessions
- Stephan Beck
Professor of Medical Genomics
UCL Cancer Institute
University College London
72 Huntley Street, London, UK.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cancer/research-groups/medical-genomics
Title: Reverse Phenotyping: Towards an integrated (epi)genomic approach to complex phenotypes and common disease
- Michael Brudno
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in Computational Biology
University of Toronto, Canada
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~brudno/
Title: Discovering INDEL and Copy Number genomic variation from short reads
- Carlos Bustamante
Professor of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology & Statistical Sciences
Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology
Cornell University, (Ithaca) NY, USA
http://bustamantelab.cb.bscb.cornell.edu/
Provisional title: Population Genomics in the Personal Genome Era
- Andrew Clark
Professor of Population Genetics
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University, (Ithaca) NY, USA
http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/clark.cfm
Title: Using short-read sequencing to dissect allele-specific expression
- Frank Oliver Gloeckner
Professor
Head of Microbial Genomics Group
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Celsius Str. 1. D-28359 Bremen, Germany
http://www.microbial-genomics.de
Title: Next generation sequencing in marine ecological genomics: tools and applications
- Philip Green
Professor of Genome Sciences
Department of Genome Sciences
University of Washington, WA, USA
http://www.phrap.org/index.html
Title: Next-generation data analysis
- Martien Groenen
Professor
Animal Breeding and Genomics Center
Wageningen Agricultural University, Holland
http://www.abg.wur.nl/UK/Research/Molecular/
Title: SNP discovery and analysis of selective sweeps using massive parallel short-read sequencing
- Roderic Guigó
Senior Group Leader
Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)
Grup de Recerca en Informàtica Biomèdica (IMIM and UPF)
Dr. Aiguader 88 Barcelona. Spain
http://genome.imim.es
Title: The transcriptional complexity of the human genome: Insights from Next Generation Technologies
- Heinz Himmelbauer
Head of Sequencing Unit
Center for Genomic Regulation
Aiguader 88
Barcelona, 08003 Spain
http://seq.crg.es/main/bin/view/Home/WebHome
Title: Plant genomics in the era of high-throughput sequencing: the case of the sugar beet
- Michael Lynch
Distinguished Professor
Dept. of Biology
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
http://www.bio.indiana.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/Lynch.html
Title: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Population-Genetic Parameters from High-Throughput Sequencing Data
- Gabor Marth
Assistant Professor of Biology
Washington University
Higgins Hall, Room 415
Boston College, MA, USA
http://bioinformatics.bc.edu/marthlab/Gabor_Marth
Title: Informatics tools for next-generation sequencing analysis
- Gil McVean
Professor of Statistical Genetics
Department of Statistics
1 South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3TG. UK
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~mcvean/
Title: The 1000 Genomes Project
- Cedric Notredame
Group Leader
Comparative Bioinformatics Group
Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
Dr. Aiguader 88 Barcelona. Spain
http://www.tcoffee.org/homepage.html
Title: Upcoming challenges for Multiple Sequence Alignment Methods
- Douglas B. Rusch
Senior Computational Scientist
J. Craig Venter Institute
9704 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850, USA
http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/platforms/informatics/
Title: Metagenomics versus Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
- Henk Stunnenberg
Professor
Head of Dept. of Molecular Biology
Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences
Holland
http://www.ncmls.nl/NCMLS/MenuStructures/PI/theme3/HenkStunnenberg.asp
Title: A systems biology view at transcription regulation networks
- Bernd Timmermmann
Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Service Group - Next Generation Sequencing
Ihnerstr. 63-73.14195 Berlin
Germany
http://www.molgen.mpg.de/
Title: Advanced data analysis in targeted resequencing projects
- Francisco M. De la Vega
Vice President, SOLID Applications and Bioinformatics
Genomic Analysis R&D
Applied Biosystems
850 Lincoln Centre Dr. Foster City, CA 94404
Title: Understanding human genetic variation at the personal and population level through massively-parallel whole-genome sequencing
- Richard K. Wilson
Director of the Genome Sequencing Center
Professor of Genetics
Washington University MO, USA
http://genome.wustl.edu/people/wilson_richard
Inaugural Speech: Sequencing the Cancer Genome
Technology sessions
- James Knight
Director of Bioinformatics Development
454 Life Sciences Corporation. A Roche Company
20 Commercial Street. Brandford, CT, 06405. USA
Title: Sequencing Solutions for Small and Large Genomes
- Richard Dixon
Senior Specialist Support Bioinformatics
Applied Biosystems Europe
Title: Introducing BioScopeT for SOLID system Data Analysis
- Mark T. Ross
Senior Staff Manager, Scientific Research
Illumina Cambridge Ltd.,
Chesterford Research Park. Little Chesterford. Saffron Walden. Essex CB10 1XL, UK
Title: Sequencing Human Genomes using the Genome Analyzer