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Following the success of the UK NGS I & UK NGS II meetings, we are pleased to announce registration is open for...
The UK Next Gen Sequencing Meeting Part Trois 2012!
This year's meeting will be held at the The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus on the 28-30th of August.
Meeting Sessions
Model Species & NGS, Agrifood, Metagenomics, Evolutionary Genomics, Human Genomics & Clinical Applications, Bioinformatics, Pathogens, and Company Presentations on the latest developments.
Confirmed Speakers
Dr Mike Quail, Sequencing R&D Team Leader, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.
Dr Andrew Slatter, Senior Scientific Officer, Population Genetics, Cambridge.
Professor Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, UNICORN Genome Projects, Institute de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC) Barcelona.
Confirmed Speakers for Human Genomics and Clinical Applications
Jane Greatorex, Senior Postdoctoral Scientist HPA - Public Health Laboratory, Cambridge: "HIV diagnostics with Ion Torrent PGM".
Lyn Chitty, Honorary Professor, Institute of Child Health UCL: "Trisomy detection in free-foetal DNA with NGS".
Sceeram Ramgopalan ("Ram"), Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry: "Genomics and epigenomics of multiple sclerosis".
Thierry Voet, Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven & The Sanger Institute: "Reproductive genomics and the development of single cell genomic technologies".
Confirmed Speakers for Evolutionary Genomics
Davide Pisani, NUI Maynooth: "Metazoan phylogenomics".
Kanchon Dasmahapatra, University of York: "Adaptive introgression in butterfiles".
Georgios Koutsovoulos, University of Edinburgh: "Pylogenomics of Nematoda".
(List to be updated regularly)
Organisers
Dr Aziz Aboobaker, The Centre for Genetics and Genomics/DeepSeq, University of Nottingham.
Professor Mark Blaxter, GenePool, University of Edinburgh.
Dr David Buck, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.
Dr Mario Caccamo, The Genomics Analysis Centre (TGAC), Norwich.
Professor Neil Hall, Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool.
Dr Nick Loman, The Centre for Systems Biology, University of Birmingham (and Twitter, @pathogenomenick).
Professor Ed Louis, The Centre for Genetics and Genomics/DeepSeq, Nottingham.
Professor Chris Ponting, The MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford.
Dr Anthony Rogers, EASIH, University of Cambridge.
Dr Mick Watson, ARK-Genomics, Edinburgh.
Conference Dinner
The conference evening dinner will be held at the Nottingham Contemporary on the 29th of August.
Registration
To register please download a Registration Form and a Card Payment Form.
Completed registration and payment forms can be returned by:
email: UKNGS-meeting@nottingham.ac.uk
Post: addressed to Helen Woodward (address details are on the registration form).
Fax: 01158 230338
NGS Meeting Poster
Help us increase awareness of the meeting by putting up the meeting poster in your place of work.
We look forward to seeing you in August!