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Past ICG-Europe Video

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24th May, 2012
Plenary Session
Huanming Yang (BGI, China) 
Welcome Speech
Lars Bolund (Aarhus University, Denmark) 
Chronic Diseases versus Healthy Aging Towards a Major Shake-up in the History of Medicine 
Rolf Müller (Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany) 
Impact of microbial genomics on natural product research
Lennart Hammarström (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) 
Genetics of primary immunodeficiency disorders
Jun Wang (BGI, China) 
Sequencing, Sequencing, and Sequencing: M&M&M projects
Chair: Harold Swerdlow (WellcomeTrust Sanger Institute, UK) 
Next-Generation and 3rd-Generation platforms at Sanger: Lessons and Outlook.
Jörn Kalinowski (CeBiTec Bielefeld University, Germany)  
Transcriptome Sequencing of Bacteria with Biotechnological or Medical Relevance
Johan den Dunnen (Leiden Genome Technology Center, the Netherlands) 
New NGS-applications in the Leiden Genome Technology Center
Geoffrey Berguet (Diagenode,Germany) 
Automated System for epigenetic applications
Session 2: Data/ Bio Cloud Computing
Chair: Søren Brunak (Technical university of Denmark, Denmark)
Interfacing disease phenotypes from electronic patient records to the underlying network biology
Scott Edmunds (GigaScience/BGI Shenzhen, China)
Data Dissemination in the Era of “Big-Data”
Christian Schlötterer (Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria)
Pool-Seq: from data analysis to biological inference
Yan Li (BGI-Shenzhen, China)
Hecate and Gaea – Flexible Cloud Computing Frameworks for Genome de novo Assembly and Re-sequencing Analysis
Session 3: Human Disease (I)
Chair: Eric Metzger (University of Freiburg Medical Center, Germany)
Function of histone demethylases in human disease
Lachlan Coin (Imperial College London, UK)
Assessing the impact of rare and common copy number variation on disease risk
Joris Veltman (RUNMC, the Netherlands)
Diagnostic exome sequencing
Oluf Borbye Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Exploring variation in the human genome and the gut microbiome in relation to the pathogenesis of common metabolic disorders
Tina Buchholz (TU Munich & Centre for Reproductive Genetics, Gyn-Gen-Lehel,  Germany)
Reproductive genetics: testing strategies for diagnostics and treatment
Caroline Adelfalk (Reproductive Genetics, Gyn-Gen-Lehel, Germany )
Meiotic mouse models instigate the genetic analysis in women with repetitive aneuploid conceptuses
Manel Esteller (IDIBELL, Spain)
Cancer Epigenomics: From DNA Methylation to Non-coding RNA
Session 4: Microbial & Meta Sequencing
Fredrik Bäckhed (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
The intestinal microbiota: A key player in obesity and related disorders?
Wang Hui (NERC, UK)
Viromes in the environment
Lisa Crossman (The Genome Analysis Center, UK)
Crowdsourcing the Outbreak E.coli 2011
Jeroen Raes (VIB ,Belgium)
Getting more out of your metagenome: methods for studying the human microbiota in health and disease
Michiel Kleerebezem (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
Functional metagenomics of the small intestine microbiota in humans
Chair: Karsten Kristiansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
The mouse gut metagenome
25th May, 2012
Session 5: Human Disease (II)
Chair: Stephan Beck (UCL Cancer Institute, UK)
EWAS: the new kid on the block for epigenome-wide association studies
Mark McCarthy (University of Oxford, UK)
Sequence-based risk variant discovery in type 2 diabetes
Norbert Hübner (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine)
Genomics approaches to cardiovascular and metabolic phenotypes
Bodo M.H. Lange (MPI-molecular genetics, Germany)
Systems Biology Modelling for Developing New Approaches in Cancer Research, Treatment and Biomarker Discovery
Tapio Visakorpi (University of Tampere, Finland)
Tim Spector (King’s College London, UK)
Large Scale Epigenomics for Common Diseases - The EpiTWINStudy
Ming Qi (BGI, China)
Research and Clinical Testing of Inherited Eye Diseases by Targeted Capture Gene Panel and Exome Sequencing
Session 6: Plant and Animal Genomics
Chair: Alan Schulman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Map-based cloning of a major resistance gene for stripe rust in wheat
Martien Groenen (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)
Genome evolution in the pig and related Studies
Mikkel Heide Schierup (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Population genomics of the great apes and their ancestral species
Shuxun Yu (Cotton Research Institute -Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China)
The genome of a diploid cotton Gossypiumraimondii
Sanne Nygaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Evolutionary transitions in fungus-farming ants: A whole-genome sequencing approach
Mick Watson (Roslin/Ark Genomics, UK)
Sequence assembly, visualization and analysis of animal genomes
Riccardo Velasco (Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy)
Genomic based apple breeding
Session 7: Diagnosis and Clinical Sequencing
Chair: William Newman (University of Manchester, UK)
Benefits and pitfalls of next generation sequencing in the diagnosis of single gene disorders
Hui Jiang (BGI, China)
Massively Parallel Sequencing for Human Blastocyst Trophectoderm Cells Chromosomal Abnormality Screening
Adrián Llerena (Extremadura University Hospital, Spain)
Pharmacogenetics in hispanics:Clinical relevance for antidepressant drugs response and suicide
Video
András Falus (Semmelweis University, Hungary)
Asthma endophenotypes and polymorphisms in the histamine receptor HRH4 gene
Hans Lehrach (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany)
The Future of Medicine
Fredrik Dahl (Agilent)
HaloPlex PCR, a simple and high-performing approach for targeted re-sequencing
Session 8: Bio-banking
Chair: Cisca Wijmenga (University Medical Centre Groning, the Netherlands)
Genome of the Netherlands: family-based whole genome sequencing of 250 Dutch trio families
Zhengming Chen (Oxford University, UK)
Unveiling the genetic and non-genetic causes of chronic diseases in China: the Kadoorie Biobank study
Mark Divers (Karolinska Institute Biobank, Sweden)
Building a modern Biobank in Sweden for new and future needs
Rita Lawlor (ARC-NET Cancer Research Centre, Italy)
Thorkild I.A. Sørensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Large-scale molecular genetic epidemiology: the challenges of combining with environmental exposures
Workshop on ELSIs
26th May, 2012
Workshop: Improving Biotech Collaboration