Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Genomics Congress 2014

In keeping with Oxford Global’s highly successful life sciences series, an expert panel of 40 speakers will present a full conference programme covering the topics outlined below.

Day 1 Stream 1 – NGS Applications in Agriculture
•    Next generation sequencing technologies
o    Whole genome sequencing
o    Genome silencing technology
•    Next generation sequencing: poultry, pigs & crops
•    DNA & RNA sequencing
•    Epigenetic analysis
•    High throughput genome sequencing

Day 1 Stream 2 – NGS & Metagenomics in Nutrition and Health
•    Next generation sequencing technologies; food & gut microbes
•    Next generation sequencing data analysis platforms
•    DNA & RNA sequencing
•    Metagenomic analysis approaches in gut research
•    High throughput genome sequencing

Day 2 Stream 1 – Plant Genomics and Crop Science
•    Case studies in plant genomics
•    Epigenetics in plant genomics
•    Bioinformatics and data analysis approaches
•    Transcriptomics in disease resistance
•    Plant genome sequencing

Day 2 Stream 2 – Nutrition: Microbial Genomics and Personalised Nutrition
•    Human gut microbiota research
•    Latest insights into microbial genomics
•    Personalised nutrition for the future
•    Diet-genome interactions: implications for health
•    Nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics & nutritional epigenomics

Day 2 Stream 3 – Animal Genomics for the Agriculture Industry
•    Case studies in animal genomics
•    Future of animal genomics
•    ‘Omics applications for better meat production
•    Marker assisted selection in animal breeding
•    Bioinformatics and data analysis approaches

• Paolo Ajmone Marsan
  Institute Director, Professor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
• Manimozhiyan Arumugam
  Associate Professor and Group Leader, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen
• Adam Baker
  Head of HND Discovery, Health and Nutrition, Chr. Hansen A/S
• Guy Barker
  Director of the Genomics Resource Centre, University of Warwick
• Henrik Bjørn Nielsen
  Associate Professor, Denmark Technical University
• Patrizia Brigidi
  Professor, University of Bologna
• David Burt
  Professor, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh
• Donald Carey Walker
  Director Global Microbiology Operations, Abbott Nutrition
• Paul Cotter
  Principal Research Officer, Teagasc Food Research Centre
• Geert De Meyer
  Head of Biometrics, Bayer Crop Science