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Course in Next Generation Sequencing for rare and common genetic disorders

 
  January 07, 2011  
     
 
European Genetics Foundation, EuroMediterranean University Center of Bologna
14 - 17 April 2011


Thursday, 14 April 2011

Morning Session: General Introduction

9.00 – 9.15        Registration to the course

9.15 – 9.30        Introduction to the course
                        G. Romeo

9.30 – 10.30      Introduction in Next Generation Sequencing technologies and applications
                        J. Veltman

10.30 – 11.00    Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.00    The power of population based genome sequencing
                        M. Hurles

12.00 – 13.00    Next generation sequencing in rare genetic disorders
                        P. Robinson   

13.00 – 14.30    Lunch Break and tour of the Eremo di Ronzano


Afternoon Session: Learning NGS details part 1

14.30 – 16.00    Workshop: 1-2  instructors will discuss details of the different NGS technologies and explain different approaches such as targeted sequencing and detection of structural genomic variation.
Goal: to learn how to differentiate technologies (short vs long reads, targeted versus whole genome sequencing, single molecule sequencing)

16.00 – 16.30     Coffee Break

16.30 – 18.00     Workshop: Data-analysis hands-on  using data from 454, solid, Illumina; learning to identify variants, discriminate true variants from noise




Friday, 15 April 2011

Morning Session: Applications

9.00 – 09.50    Rare Genetic Variants in Health and Disease (UK10k: http://www.uk10k.org/) also to discuss                                    1000 genomes project.
                      M. Hurles

09.50 – 10.40   Predicting the pathogenicity of genetic variation (bioinformatics)
                       R. Casadio

10.40 – 11.10   Coffee Break

11.10 – 12.00   Problems, pitfalls and limits
                       P. Robinson

12.00 – 12.50   What’s next: High-throughput functional follow-up of genetic variation
                       M. Dermitzakis

12.50 – 14.00   Lunch Break


Afternoon Session: Learning NGS details part 2

14.00 – 15.30         Workshops
15.30 – 16.00         Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30         Workshops
17.30 – 18.00         Plenary Discussion

Workshops: Data-analysis hands-on workshop using data from 454, solid, Illumina focusing more on prioritizing variants for pathogenicity using control data, various genomic features and prediction tools, followed by discussion on the validity of these predictions, the importance of control data etc.




Saturday, 16 April 2011

Morning Session: Diagnosing genetic disorders

9.00 – 10.10    Impact of next generation sequencing on clinical diagnostic practice
                      G. Matthijs


10.10 – 11.20      Targeted versus whole genome sequencing in the clinic
                          J. Veltman

11.20 – 11.50      Coffee Break

11.50 – 13.00      The changing role of clinical geneticists in the NGS era
                          R. Hennekam 
   
13.00 – 14.00      Lunch Break


Afternoon Session: Other NGS  approaches/applications

14.00 – 15.30         Workshop on Consanguinity and NGS
                             Workshop NGS for structural variation

15.30 – 16.00         Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.30         Poster Session

17.30 – 18.00         Plenary Discussion




Sunday, 17 April 2011

Morning Session: Ethics and discussion

9.00 – 10.10    The personal genome project
                      J. Lunshof


10.10 – 11.20  Ethical and legal frameworks applying for personal genome data
                      A. Cambon-Thomsen

11.20 – 11.50  Coffee Break

11.50 – 13.00   Presentation of the best students posters and wrap up session organized by students
       
13.00 – 14.00   Lunch Break and Departure
 
 
Organized by: European Genetics Foundation
Invited Speakers:

J. Veltman (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

P. Robinson (Berlin, Germany)

M. Hurles (Cambridge, UK)

R. Casadio (Bologna, Italy)

E. Dermitzakis (Geneva, Switzerland)

G. Matthijs (Leuven, Belgium)

J. Lunshof (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

A. Cambon-Thomsen (Toulose, France)

R. Hennekam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

 

 
Deadline for Abstracts: -
 
Registration:

REGISTRATION FEE: € 650,00 + VAT (20%)  = € 780,00

The fee includes tuition, course material, lunch, coffee break and shuttle bus from Porta San Mamolo (meeting point) to the course venue and back.

ACCOMMODATION: The fee doesn’t include the hotel accommodation.

For more information please visit the section: ACCOMMODATION INFO

 

FELLOWSHIP

The European Society of Human Genetics (www.eshg.org) offers 5 fellowships covering the registration fee.
Applicants for fellowships should submit their request together with C.V. and a reference letter to esgm.fellowship@eshg.org (please put giuseppina.digiglio@eurogene.it in cc).

Deadline for sending cv: 11th March 2011, at 18.00 (Bruxelles time)

 

CME

The accreditation procedure for Continuing Medical Education (CME) has been activated in collaboration with Menarini International Foundation.

 

 

E-mail: giuseppina.digiglio@eurogene.it ; massimo.donno@eurogene.it
 
   
 
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