International Conference on Genomics in Europe June 25th -28th, 2013, Ghent Belgium

Speakers

Pascal Borry
Assistant professor
Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law..
Pascal Borry's research is focused on fundamental and applied research in bioethics.
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Boo Edgar
Associate Professor
University of Gothenburg
Boo is at present part of three research grant’s supported by the European Commission.
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Bjoern Textor
New England Biolabs GmbH

Next Generation Sequencing application specialist for New England Biolabs GmbH.
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Hui Wang
NERC (Natural Environmental Research..
UK
Principal Scientific Officer in NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council) Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
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Henrik Ditzel
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
Dr. Ditzel is also Head of Department of Cancer and inflammation at University of Southern Denmark.
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Anders Børglum

Director of Centre for Integrated Sequencing, iSEQ, a cross-faculty initiative on next generation sequencing and bioinfo..
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Nils Brunner
Aarhus University
Denmark
Director of the Sino-Danish Breast Cancer Research Centre which aims at identification and clinical validation of predic..
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Ruth E. Ley
Cornell University
USA
Her awards include a Packard Foundation Fellowship, a Hartwell Foundation Fellowship, a Beckman Foundation Fellowship, a..
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Shaoliang Peng
National University of Defense Techn..
China
Associate professor in National University of Defense Technology (Changsha, China) and an adjunct professor of BGI-Shenz..
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Ramneek Gupta
The Technical University of Denmark
Denmark
His interests are in translating systems biology impact to the clinic and making progress on the promise of personalised..
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Hartmut Wekerle
LMU (University of Munich)
Germany
He is Honorary Professor at the LMU (University of Munich) and member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina).
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Jeremy K. Nicholson
Imperial College London.
UK
Head of the Department of Surgery and Cancer
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Jenny Wei
R&D Information China
AstraZeneca global R&D
Head of R&D Information China Hub, AstraZeneca global R&D
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Radoje Drmanac
Complete Genomics, Inc.
Mountain View, California, U.S.A.
One of the founders of the field of Genomics. Currently he serves as Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Complete Genomics..
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Carlos Simón Vallés
University of Valencia
Spain
Prof. Carlos Simon is Board Certified and Full Professor of Obstetrics andGynecology at the University of Valencia, Scie..
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Thierry Voet
University of Leuven
UK
Prof. Thierry Voet is developing methods to determine all classes of genetic variants in the genome of a single cell usi..
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Vince Gao
BGI
China
Dr. Gao joined BGI in 2012 to lead a professional team for the development of clinical trans-omics approaches for diseas..
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Lynnette Fernandez Cuesta
University of Cologne
Germany

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Karsten Kristiansen
University of Copenhagen
Danmark
Dr. Karsten Kristiansen is Professor of Molecular Biology and Head of the Department of Biology, University of Copenhage..
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Maurizio Ferrari
University Vita-Salute San Raffaele
Italy
Head of Genomic Unit for the Diagnosis of Human Pathologies, Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics, IRCCS..
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Attila Lorincz
Queen Mary University of London
UK
Dr Lorincz is Director of the Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.
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Mario Caccamo
Genome Analysis Centre
UK
Acting Director at The Genome Analysis Centre and has over 15 years’ experience on algorithms research
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Han Brunner
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical ..
Netherlands
Han Brunner is professor of medical genetics and head of the department of human genetics at the Radboud University Nijm..
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Tao Dong
MRC Human Immunology Unit, Universit..
UK

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Mike Bevan
John Innes Centre
UK
Deputy Director of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK. He received his PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University ..
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Encarnación Bibiana Gómez García
Maastricht University Medical Centre
Netherlands
Head of the Oncogenetics (Familial Tumours) section at Maastricht University Hospital. Clinical interests include the di..
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Atocha Romero
Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Spain

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Diether Lambrechts
University of Leuven
Belgium
VIB Group leader since January 2008, research focus on model systems to perform functional genetic studies
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Rajeev K Varshney
ICRISAT
India
Rajeev Varshney is a Director-Center of Excellence in Genomics at ICRISAT, Hyderabad and Theme Leader for the CGIAR Gene..
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Lars Bullinger
University of Ulm
Germany

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Søren Møller
Novo Seeds
Denmark
Søren Møller joined Novo A/S in October 2011 as Managing Investment Director of Novo Seeds.
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Ian Campbell
National Health and Medical Research..
Australia
A/Prof Campbell is a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Principal Research Fellow and focuses on ..
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Diana Margaret Eccles
University of Southampton
UK
Main research interests on Genetic predisposition to cancer – diagnosis and management, Cancer prevention, surveillan..
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Tomas Marques-Bonet
Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC
Spain
PhD in Biology. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Dissertation Topic: “On the association between chromosomal rearrangements an..
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Nathaniel Street
Umeå University
Sweden
Dr. Street leads the aspen genome project, contributes to the spruce genome project and his group develop the PopGenIE.o..
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Lone Frank
Weekendavisen,
Denmark
Lone Frank is a journalist and author with a Ph.D. in neurobiology and a background in research.
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Michael E. Talkowski
Harvard Medical School
USA
Dr. Talkowski’s research is focused on understanding the genetic etiology of complex neurodevelopmental and neuropsychi..
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Patrick Van Beneden
Gimv Partner
Belgium
Patrick Van Beneden has worked at Gimv since 1985 and has built a track record in life sciences, both in early stage and..
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Huanming Yang
BGI
China
Prof. Yang earned his Ph.D. Yang earned from Copenhagen...
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Lars Bolund
Aarhus University
Denmark
Lars Bolund is Professor of Clinical Genetics at Aarhus University ..
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Jun Wang
BGI
China
Dr. Wang is the Executive Director of the BGI. He was instrumental ..
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Jeroen Raes
VIB
Belgium
Prof. Dr. Jeroen Raes was Scientific Collaborator
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Wigard Kloosterman
University Medical Center Utrecht
The Netherlands
Wigard Kloosterman received his MSc in Biotechnology...
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Rob Knight
University of Colorado
U.S.
Rob Knight is an Associate Professor with the Biofrontiers Institute, in the...
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Martin Bonde
Danish Association of Biotech Compan..
Denmark
Engaged as board member in Orphazyme ApS and...
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Sofie Van Landeghem
VIB
Belgium
Dr. Sofie Van Landeghem holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, both obtained at Ghent U..
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Johan Cardoen
VIB
Belgium
Johan Cardoen is managing director of VIB. In this responsibility...
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Ann De Beuckelaer
FlandersBio
Belgium
Ann De Beuckelaer is Managing Director FlandersBio since March 2012...
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Stein Aerts
University of Leuven
Belgium
Prof. Dr. Ir. Stein Aerts is heading the Laboratory of Computational Biology
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Main Sessions

Plenary Session 1 Omics and the future of manJun 26 9:00
Plenary Session 2Jun 26 11:00
Plenary Session 3Plant and Animal Genomics Jun 26 13:30
WorkshopInnovation-Entrepreneurship and Venture creation..Jun 26 14:30-15:35
Session 4Cancer Genomics and transcriptional regulationJun 26 16:00
WorkshopInnovation-Entrepreneurship in Venture Creation-..Jun 26 16:00-18:00
Session 5Human Disease - Structural genomic variation and..Jun 27 9:00
Session 6Metagenomics Jun 27 11:00
Session 7Human Disease Jun 27 11:00
Session 8Health and translational medicine-1Jun 27 13:30
Session 9Human diseaseJun 27 13:30

Scientific Committee

Hans Galjaard, Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Hans Galjaard is professor emeritus and chairman of the Department of Clinical Genetics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands. >>readmore

Huanming Yang, BGI, China

Prof. Yang earned his Ph.D. from Copenhagen University in 1988, and received his postdoctoral trainings in France (1988–1990) and USA (1990–1994) >>readmore

Marc van Montagu, IPBO, Belgium

Em. Prof. Marc Van Montagu is a pioneer in plant molecular biology. He is well known (with J. Schell) as the discoverer of the Ti-plasmid and the inventor of Agrobacterium tumefaci.. >>readmore

Lars Bolund, Aarhus University, Denmark

Lars Bolund is Professor of Clinical Genetics at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Adjunct Professor of Human Genetics at Copenhagen University >>readmore

Yves-Jean Bignon, France

Upon completion of my M.D. in medical oncology in 1984 and my Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1991 at the University of Auvergne (France) >>readmore

Jun Wang, BGI, China

Dr. Wang is the Executive Director of the BGI. He was instrumental in the 1999 founding and the growth of the BGI Bioinformatics Department >>readmore

Edwin Cuppen, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands

Edwin Cuppen obtained his masters in molecular sciences at the Agricultural University Wageningen in 1994 (cum laude) and his PhD degree in 1999 at the Radboud University in Nijmeg.. >>readmore