NBIC: Programme

Programme NGS User meeting, July 6, 2010


9.00	Registration

9.30	Plenary session I
9.30	NGS around the world; where are NGS laboratories, and what do they do?
	James Hadfield, Genomics Core Facility, Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge (UK)
9.45	NGS at Max Planck Institute; organization and collaboration
	Bernd Timmermann, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin (GE)

11.00	Coffee break

11.30	Parallel Session A
	1. Bioinformatic solutions, Chair: Marc van Driel
	a. PRICAT: a web-tool for the analysis of plant ChIP-seq experiments
	Marlous Hoogstraat
	b. Pattern finding in ChIP-seq data using CATCH (Clustering and Alignment of ChIP profiles)
	Fiona Nielsen
	c. Integrating genome assemblies with MAIA Motivation
	Jurgen Nijkamp
	d. SSPACE: a new scaffolding tool
	Walter Pirovano

	2. Experimental workflow, Chair: Matthew Hestand
	a. Large scale exome resequencing on the SOLiD platform
	Christian Gilissen
	b. Monitoring strain diversity in metagenomics data using meta-MLST SNP profiling
	Victor de Jager
	c. Detecting alterations in genome structure from paired tags
	Victor Guryev
	d. Advanced Nucleic Acid Fractionation for Next Generation Sequencing Sample Preparation
	Hannes Arnold

13.00	Lunch

14.00	Parallel Session B
	3. Clinical applications, Chair: Joris Veltman
	a. Multiplexing in a diagnostic setting
	Magdalena Harakalova
	b. Unprecedented resolution for the detection of inherited and de novo structural variation by mate-pair sequencing of a family trio
	Wigard Kloosterman
	c. BRCA1 screening using 454 sequencing
	Koos Kranenburg
	d. Design and validation of a NGS approach for hereditary blindness in diagnostics
	Kornelia Neveling

	4. Fundamental research applications, Chair: Edwin Cuppen
	a. Globin reduction in blood samples for next generation sequencing gene expression studies
	A. Mastrokolias
	b. Pol II chromatin immunoprecipitation and sequencing (ChIP-seq) as a measure of transcription rate
	Michal Mokry
	c. De Novo Genome Sequencing and Annotation of the Basal Flatworm Macrostomum Lignano
	Daniil Simanov
	d. 4C-seq: capturing the 3D-organization of the mammalian genome
	Elzo de Wit

15.15	Tea break

15.45	Plenary session II
15.45	Understanding the Genome with NGS; notes on genomics and bioinformatics
	Melissa Fullwood, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School/Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

17.00	Drinks

18.30	End program