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| Day 1 : Tuesday 4th September (No parallel sessions). Conference Theatre. |
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10:30 - 12:00
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Registration
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12:00 - 12:45
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Registration and Lunch
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12:45 - 14:30
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Welcome and Keynote Speakers Chaired by Matt Loose
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12:45 - 13:00
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Matt Loose
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Welcome and Housekeeping
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13:00 - 13:45
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Keynote Speaker 1: Sergey Koren (NIH/NHGRI)
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Title: Genome assembly for the long-read era.
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13:45 - 14:30
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Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Ewan Birney (EBI)
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Title: Big Data in Biology and Medicine (working title)
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14:30 - 15:00
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Coffee Break
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15:00 - 16:35
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Evolving Technologies Part1 Chaired By Mike Quail. Conference Theatre.
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15:00 - 15:25
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Mark Akeson (UCSC)
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Title: There and Back Again: Sequencing RNA with Nanopores.
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15:25 - 15:55
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Niall Gormley (Illumina)
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Title: Sample preparation for NGS on a surface.
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15:55 - 16:15
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Lia Chappell (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
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Title: Methods for sequencing thousands of cells in parallel.
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16:15 - 16:35
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Barry Merriman (Roswell Biotechnologies)
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Title: The Final Disruption: Molecular Electronics for DNA sequencing.
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16:35 - 16:50
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Coffee Break
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16:50 - 18:05
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Evolving Technologies Part2 Chaired By Mike Quail
Conference Theatre
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16:50 - 17:10
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Cameron Frayling (Base4)
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Title: An Introduction to the Base4 Sequencing Platform.
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17:10 17:28
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Deyra Rodriguez (New England Biolabs)
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Title: Novel Approaches to Address Challenges in Sample Preparation.
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17:28 - 17:40
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Andy Higgs (Advanced Analytical)
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Title: Automating QC of large DNA with the FEMTO Pulse.
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17:40 - 18:05
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Clive Brown (Oxford Nanopore Technologies)
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Title: The latest from nanopore sequencing
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18:05 - 19:30
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Poster Session (split into two poster attending times)
(18:20 - 19:20) 'Meet the Editor' with Andrew Cosgrove, Senior Editor of Genome Biology.
Drinks and canapes sponsored by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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| Day 2 : Wednesday 5th September |
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08:30 - 09:00
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Registration
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09:00 - 10:40 Parallel Session 1a : Animal and Plant Genomics Chaired by Mick Watson. Conference Theatre.
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09:00 - 09:30
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Federica Di Palma (Earlham Institute)
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Title: Evolution of gene regulatory networks controlling traits under natural selection in cichlids.
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09:30 - 09:50
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Daniel Mead (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
Title: The 25 Genomes Project, sequencing a broad taxonomic assortment of UK species. |
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09:50- 10:10
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Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham) |
Title: Lineage segregation, X chromosome dynamics and regulation of pluripotencyduring pig embryogenesis revealed by single cell RNA-seq.
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10:10 - 10:28
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Seyhan Yazar (University of Edinburgh)
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Title: De novo Genome and Transcriptome Assemblies of the Bare-nosed Wombat.
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10:28 - 10:40
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Jon Rock (Lexogen)
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Title: QuantSeq: Gene expression profiling with all the trimmings.
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09:00 - 10:40 Parallel Session 1b: Microbial Genomics Chaired by Emily Richardson Conference Suite 3.
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09:00 - 09:25
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Pedro Oliveira (Mt Sinai Hospital, New York) |
Title: The chromosomal organisation of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.
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09:25 - 09:50
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Gemma Langridge (University of East Anglia)
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Title: Metabolic signatures of host adaptation in Salmonella enterica.
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09:50- 10:10
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James McInerney (University of Nottingham)
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Title: Why Prokaryotes Have Pangenomes.
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10:10 - 10:28
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William Rowe (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
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Title: Indexed variation graphs for efficient and accurate resistome profiling.
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10:28 - 10:40
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Ralph Vogelsang (PacBio)
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Title: See bacterial genomes in high resolution with SMRT Sequencing.
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10:40 - 11:15
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Coffee Break
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11:15 - 13:15 Parallel Session 2a : Clinical Genetics Chaired by Saskia Sanderson. Conference Theatre.
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11:15 - 11:40
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Cathryn Lewis (King's College London)
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Title: Applying polygenic risk scores to psychiatric disorders - hype and hope.
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11:40 - 12:05
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D.Gareth R Evans (The University of Manchester)
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Title: Breast cancer pathology and stage are better predicted by risk stratification models that include mammographic density and common genetic variants.
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12:05 - 12:20
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Steve Pullan (Public Health England)
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Title: Nanopore sequencing for viral clinical sample investigation; In-field metagenomics from the largest ever recorded Lassa fever outbreak.
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12:20 - 12:35
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Greg Elgar (Genomics England)
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Title: The End of the Beginning - the Genomics England 100,000 Genomes Project.
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12:35 - 12:53
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Kathryn Woodfine (Product Specialist, Agilent Technologies)
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Title: The Agilent NGS workflow.
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12:53 - 13:11
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Danielle Folkard (Qiagen)
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Title: QIAGEN solutions for clinical genomics.
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11:15 - 13:15 Parallel Session 2b : Eukaryotic Microbe Genomics Chaired by Christiane Hertz-Fowler. Conference Suite 3.
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11:15 - 11:40
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Rachel M. Chalmers (Public Health Wales)
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Title: Cryptosporidium genomics: where have we come from and where are we going?
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11:40 - 12:05
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Matt Berriman (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
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Title: Comparative genomics insights into the evolutionary history of malaria.
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12:05 - 12:30
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Matthew Fisher (Imperial College London)
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Title: Big Genomics approaches to addressing Big Fungal Problems.
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12:30 - 12:45
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Amber Leckenby (University of Liverpool)
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Title: Genomic analyses of Entamoeba histolytica using third-generation sequencing.
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12:45 - 13:00
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Rajan Pandey (University of Nottingham)
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Title: Deciphering Plasmodium Condensin during atypical cell divisionand proliferation.
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13:00 - 13:15
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Rahila Sardar (Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi)
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Title: Genome wide in silico analysis of Plasmodium species transcription factorsand regulators for novel drug discovery.
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13:15 - 14:15 : Lunch
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14:15 - 16:00 Parallel Session 3a : Microbial Populations Chaired by Nick Loman Conference Theatre.
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14:15 - 14:40 |
Alan Walker (Rowett Institute, Aberdeen) |
Title: The human gut microbiome: myths and truths. |
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14:40 - 15:05 |
Lesley Hoyles (Nottingham Trent University) |
Title: Towards understanding the role of the gut microbiome in fatty liver disease. |
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15:05 - 15:20 |
Josh Quick (University of Birmingham) |
Title: Assessing ultra-deep, long-read metagenomics on Oxford Nanopore PromethION. |
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15:20 - 15:35 |
Benjamin Thomas (Aberystwyth University) |
Title: Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches: Using AMPLY for computational novel antibiotic discovery in really strange places. |
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15:35 - 15:47 |
Katherine Brown (University of Cambridge) |
Title: Identification of viral transcripts in RNA-seq datasets from bees, mites and ants. |
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15:47 - 15:59 |
Sarah Hemmasi (Cambridge Bioscience) |
Title: Standardizing Microbiomics – Removing Bias in Collection, Purification and Analyses |
| 14:15 - 16:00 Parallel Session 3b : Developmental Biology Chaired by Aziz Aboobaker. Conference Suite 3. |
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14:15 - 14:40 |
Dario Riccardo Valenzano (Max Planck Institute For Biology Of Ageing) |
Title: The genomic phylogeny of African killifishes reveals pervasive genome-wide relaxation of selection upon adaptation to annual environments |
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14:40 - 15:05 |
Bertie Gottgens (University of Cambridge) |
Title: A single-cell resolution roadmap from mouse gastrulation to early organogenesis |
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15:05 - 15:20 |
Anish Dattani (University of Oxford) |
Title: Epigenetic analyses of planarian stem cells demonstrate conservation of bivalent histone modifications in animal stem cells. |
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15:20 - 15:35 |
Abdulkadir Abakir (University of Nottingham) |
Title: N6-methyladenosine regulates cell cycle dynamics of RNA:DNA hybrids. |
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15:35 - 15:47 |
Alysha Taylor (University of Leeds) |
Title: A Comparative Genomics Approach to Identify microRNAs Specific to PlacentalMammals. |
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15:47 - 15:59 |
Meena Anissi (Twist Bioscience) |
Title: Improving the Performance, Efficiency and Flexibility of Targeted Sequencing |
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| 16:00 - 16:20 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:20 - 18:10 : Parallel Session 4a : SIngle Cell Genomics Chaired by Lia Chappell Conference Theatre. |
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16:20 - 16:50 |
Viginia Howick (Wellcome Sanger Institute) |
Title: A Malaria Cell Atlas: Understanding transcriptional variation across the Plasmodium life-cycle using single-cell RNA-seq |
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16:50 - 17:20 |
Wolf Reik (The Babraham Institute) |
Title: Single cell epigenome landscape of development and ageing |
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17:20 - 17:40 |
Peter Vegh (Newcastle University) |
Title: Discovering the diversity of human skin immune cells using single-cell RNA-seq
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17:40 - 17:52 |
Daniel Liber (TakaraBio) |
Title: ICELL8 cx: The Open Platform for Single-Cell Genomics |
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17:52 - 18:10 |
Stephen Hague (10X Genomics) |
Title: Chromium System, recent and future advances. |
| 16:20 - 18:10 : Parallel Session 4b : Evolutionary Genomics Chaired by James McInerney. Conference Suite 3. |
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16:20 - 16:45 |
William F. Martin (Dusseldorf University) |
Title: In search of genome number 1: Uncovering the genome of the first microbe. |
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16:45 - 17:10 |
Jordi Paps (University of Essex) |
Title: Reconstruction of the first animal genome reveals a burst of genomic novelty |
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17:10 - 17:20 |
Fiona Whelan (University of Nottingham) |
Title: The co-occurrence and co-exclusion of evolving objects in prokaryotes. |
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17:20 - 17:40 |
Silvia Busoms (John Innes Centre, Norwich) |
Title: Ecological and population genomics reveals fluctuating selection on migrant adaptive sodium transporter alleles in coastal Arabidopsis thaliana. |
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17:40 - 17:55 |
Peter Mulhair (University of Leeds) |
Title: Gene fusion events in Metazoa – patterns of emergence and potential use asphylogenetic markers. |
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17:55 - 18:10 |
Gabriel Rech (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE-CSIC)) |
Title: Unravelling transposable element diversity using long-read sequencing. |
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18:10 - late
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Conference Dinner Sponsored by Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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| Day 3 : Thursday 6th September |
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08:30 - 09:15
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Registration with extended Coffee Break
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09:15 - 11:05
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Computational Biology. Chaired by Richard Emes. Conference Theatre.
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09:15 - 09:35
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Chris Ponting (Edinburgh)
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Title: Identifying causal variants in complex disease that alter transcription factor binding
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09:35 - 09:55
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Devika Agarwal (University of Oxford) |
Title: A meta-analysis of microglial transcriptomic datasets to prioritize disease related targets and mechanisms in neuro-inflammation and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease.
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09:55 - 10:15
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Mirjana Efremova (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
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Title: Decoding cell-cell interactions at the maternal-fetal interface using single cell transcriptomics
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10:15 - 10:25
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Martin Fahrenberger (University of Regensburg)
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Title: Exploring Spatial Transcriptomics: From tissue sections to gene expression patterns.
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10:25 - 10:35
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Sarah Bastkowski (Earlham Institute)
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Title: Networks to catch the difference: Construction and analysis of Regulatory Networks applied to East African Lake Cichlids.
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10:35 - 10:47
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Ivan K. Lukić (Partek)
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Title: Single cell RNA-Seq data analysis with Partek® Flow®
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10:47 - 11:05
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Wil Wellington (Product Director, Verne Global)
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Title: Computational biology in the cloud. How high performance computing (HPC) within the cloud is accelerating our ability to analyse complex biological compute workloads efficiently.
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11:05 - 11:35
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Coffee Break
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11:35 - 13:30
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Closing Keynote Speakers Chaired by Matt Loose
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11:35 - 12:20
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Keynote 1: Dr Kathie Grant (Public Health England)
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Title: Exploiting genomics for investigating gastrointestinal infectious disease.
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12:20 - 13:05
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Keynote 2: Kevin Davies
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Title: Observations on the Road to the $1,000 Genome.
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13:05 - 13:30
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Matt Loose
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Prizes and Closing Business
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13:30 - 14:30
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Lunch (with packed lunch options)
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| 14:30 | Conference Ends |
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