Next generation sequencing

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8:30 welcome address
  Guillame Smits (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
 
Session 1 TECHNICAL ADVANCES
  chair : Jan Hellemans (Ghent University, Belgium)
 
8:40 Sequencing applications for the Illumina Genome Analyzer
  Dan Turner (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
9:05 Challenges for the data management and analysis of large-scale human genome sequencing
  Paul Flicek (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
9:30   Generating thousands of complete human genome sequences for basic and clinical research
  Stephen Lincoln (Complete Genomics, Mountain View, CA, USA)
9:55 Automated nucleic acid fractionation for Next Generation Sequencing
  Elaine Wong-Ho (Caliper Life Sciences, Hopkinton, MA, USA)
 
10:15   coffee break
 
Session 2 BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
  chair : Guillame Smits (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
 
10:45   Next-generation genetics and epigenetics
  Edwin Cuppen (Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
11:10 Plant genome de novo assembly based on next-generation sequencing data
  Heinz Himmelbauer (Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain)
11:35   De novo sequencing and SNP discovery using the 454 FLX sequencing platform
  Neil Hall (Center for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool, UK)
12:00   Integrating high-throughput sequencing into AFLP genome scans of non-model organisms
  Heidi Lischer (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland)
12:15 Ancient DNA research without PCR : the power of single-molecule sequencing
  Michiel van Galen (Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands)
 
12:30   lunch + poster session
 
Session 3 TARGETED RESEQUENCING
  chair : Jo Vandesompele (Ghent University, Belgium)
 
14:00   Targeted Resequencing using sequence capture
  Alison Coffey (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
14:25   Separating wheat from chaff : molecular elucidation of genetic factors underlying mental retardation by genome partitioning and large scale NGS
  Wei Chen (BIMSB Max-Delbrück - Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany)
14:50   Targeted capturing and subsequent next generation for the identification of causal mutations in mendelian diseases
  Delfien Syx (Ghent University, Belgium)
15:05   GS Junior : new sequencing technology for discovery in clinical research
  Marcus Droege (Roche Diagnostics, Penzberg, Germany
 
15:25   coffee break
 
Session 4 WGS MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
  chair : Gilber Vassart (Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium)
 
16:05 Application of next-generation sequencing in a medical setting
  Johan den Dunnen (Leinden Genome Technology Center, the Netherlands)
16:30   From genome-wide genome association to whole genome sequencing
  Ivo Gut (Centre de Genotypage, Evry, France)
16:55 Cancer transcriptome sequencing
  Martin Hirst (BC Cander Research Center, Vancouver, Canada)
 
17:20   awards and closure of the meeting
  Hakim El Housni (Erasme, University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium)
  Jo Vandesompele (Ghent University, Belgium)
  Guillaume Smits (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
 
17:30   drinks