3rd Annual Next Generation Sequencing Asia Congress 2013

To be confirmed:

2012:

THE EVENT

In keeping with Oxford Global’s highly successful life sciences series, an expert panel of 45 speakers will present a full conference programme covering the following key topics including:

Day One Stream 1 – Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
•    Comparison of NGS platforms and methods
•    New 2nd  & 3rd generation technologies & future perspectives
•    Single molecule technology
•    Standardisation
•    NGS Protocols
•    Clinical and diagnostic case studies
•    Personalised medicine applications

Day One Stream 2 – Innovations in Epigenetics, Analytical Genomics & Copy Number Variation
•    Epigenetics
•    DNA methylation
•    Non Coding RNA
•    ChIP-Seq
•    Copy number variation
•    Analytical genomics

Day One Stream 3  – NGS Application Case Studies
•    NGS Application Case Studies in:-
•    Infectious diseases
•    Immunology
•    Diabetes
•    Rare diseases
•    Human metagenomics
•    Genetic & human evolution

Day Two Stream 1  – NGS Application Case Studies in Oncology
•    Oncology Case Studies
•    Personalised Medicine in Oncology
•    Oncology Biomarker Discovery

RNA Seq                               Whole Genome Seq           Exome Seq
Transcriptome Seq             miRNA- Seq                         Resequencing
Targeted Sequencing / Sequence enrichment

Day Two Stream 2  – Data Analysis, Storage & Management
•    Data Analysis, Handling &  Data Management
•    Bioinformatics Challenges & workflows
•    Data Archiving challenges
•    Storage Improvement Strategies & Cloud Computing
•    Error rates
•    Bioinformatics for non bioinformaticians

2013 - to be confirmed

Speakers 2012

• Touati Benoukraf
  Research Fellow, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Centre for Translational Medicine National University of Singapore
• Shawn Burgess
  Developmental Genomics Section, Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
• Raffaele Calogero
  Professor, Bioinformatics and Genomics Unit, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino
• Ian Campbell
  Associate Professor, Head, VBCRC Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Centre for Cancer Genomics and Predictive Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Swaine Chen
  Senior Research Scientist, Infectious Diseases Group, National University of Singapore and GIS
• Jung Kyoon Choi
  Professor, Dept. Bio and Brain Engineering, Computational Genomics Laboratory, KAIST, Korea & Principal Investigator, GIS
• Edwin Chong-Wing Cheung
  Senior Research Scientist, GIS
• Birajalaxmi Das
  Scientific Officer, Low Level Radiation Studies Section, Radiation Biology & Health Sciences Division, Bio Medical Group, Bhabha Atomic Reserch Centre, India
• Jeannine Diesch
  PhD Student, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Chunming Ding
  Director and Principal Investigator Epigenetics Centre, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences
• Alexander Dobrovic
  Head, Molecular Pathology R&D, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Melissa Jane Fullwood
  Genome Institute of Singapore
• Sayak Ganguli
  R.A. and Staff Researcher, DBT-Centre for Bioinformatics Presidency University, Kolkata
• Slaven Garaj
  Research Associate, Harvard Nanopore Group, Harvard University
• Robin Gasser
  Professor & Director, Parasite Genomics and Genetics Program, University of Melbourne
• Yoichi Gondo
  Team Leader, Mutagenesis and Genomics Team, RIKEN BioResource Center
• Sean Grimmond
  Professor, Expression Genomics, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
• Huili Guo
  Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
• Yoshihide Hayashizaki
  Director, Omics Science Center, RIKEN
• Axel Hillmer
  Senior Research Scientist, Genome Technology & Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore
• Kazuho Ikeo
  Associate Professor, Laboratory for DNA Data Analysis, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
• R. Krishna Murthy Karuturi
  Senior Research Scientist, Computational & Systems Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore
• Thomas Klemm
  Software Engineer, Duke NUS
• Thangaraj Kumarasamy
  Group Leader, Evolutionary and Medical Genetics Laboratory, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
• Vladimir A. Kuznetsov
  Deputy Director, Graduate Studies, Senior Principal Investigator, Head Division of Genome and Gene Expression Analysis, Bioinformatics Institute Singapore
• Dennis Lo
  Director, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
  Principal Investigator, Programme Director Human Infectious Diseases, Bioinformatics Institute Singapore
• Makiko Ono
  Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, National Cancer Center Research Institute
• Jurg Ott
  Visiting Professor, Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing & Professor Emeritus and Head of Lab, Rockefeller University, New York
• Dominic O’Neil
  Senior Scientist Research & Development, QIAGEN GmbH
• Beena Pillai
  Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
• Michael Poidinger
  Principal Investigator, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)
• Shyam Prabhakar
  Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
• Ming Qi
  Professor & Director, Center for Genetic & Genomic Medicine, Zhejiang University Medical School 1st Affiliated Hospital
• Peter Rainer Preiser
  Professor, Division of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, Nanyang Unveristy, Singapore
• Deepa Selvi Rani
  Evolutionary and Medical Genetics Laboratory, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
• Senior Representative
  Perkin Elmer
• Senior Representative
  Agilent Technologies
• Senior Representative
  BIO-RAD
• Senior Representative
  Illumina
• October Sessions
  Research Fellow, Program on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
• Richie Soong
  Senior Principal Investigator, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Research Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, National University of Singapore
• Elia Stupka
  Co-Director, Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics, San Raffaele Biomedical Science Park
• Wing-Kin Sung
  Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Senior Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
• Ryan Taft
  Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland
• Patrick Tan
  Associate Professor, Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore, Program Leader (Genomic Oncology), Cancer Sciences Institute of Singapore, Principal Investigator, National Cancer Centre (Singapore)
• Vivek Tanavde
  Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*STAR), Singapore
• Richard Tothill
  Head of Molecular Genomics Facility, Ian Potter Centre for Cancer Genomics and Predictive Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
• Fatima Valdes Mora
  Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
• Xiujie Wang
  Professor and Head of Laboratory, Director for Center of Molecular Systems Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Nick Wong
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer and Disease Epigenetics, Early Development and Disease, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Henry Yang
  Principal Investigator, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN)
• Louxin Zhang
  Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, and Adjunct Associate Prof., Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore