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Hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Next-generation sequencing conference covers a broad range of topics in genome sequencing and analysis. Our particular focus areas in 2017 are structural variation and population genomics.
New sequencing technologies have opened up the possibility to sequence genomes at a previously unprecedented scale. The sequencing of whole genomes from large number of individuals representing multiple populations allows the extent of genetic diversity, of both at the single nucleotide level, and of larger structural variants, to be catalogued. Using such data the genetic basis of evolutionary and disease processes can be explored. The meeting will draw together researchers from diverse backgrounds who develop and apply novel tools to sequencing data. Topics covered will include, but are not limited to, genome assembly, variant characterization and analysis, gene expression, population history, disease, and more!
The conference program will be a combination of keynote talks from renown scientists with research focusing on structural variation and population genomics, a selection of thought-provoking submitted abstract talks, technology and applications talks, as well as posters.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
JAUME BERTRANPETIT, PhD Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain |
DEANNA CHURCH, PhD 10x Genomics California, USA |
JAN KORBEL, PhD European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany |
NICOLE SORANZO, PhD University of Cambridge United Kingdom |
JAUME BERTRANPETIT, PhD Group Leader Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems Program Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain Unveiling the information in the variation in the human genome: from ancestry to adaptation http://biologiaevolutiva.org/jbertranpetit/ > Click here for biography < |
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DEANNA CHURCH, PhD Senior Director of Applications 10x Genomics California, USA Advancing genomics drop by drop > Click here for biography < |
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JAN KORBEL, PhD Genome Biology Unit European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany From genomic variation to molecular mechanism www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/korbel/ |
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NICOLE SORANZO, PhD Group Leader Human Genetics Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) Professor of Human Genetics University of Cambridge United Kingdom Genetic and epigenetic variation in population-based cohorts informs cardiometabolic and immune disease risk > Click here for biography < |
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JAUME BERTRANPETIT, PhD Professor of Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Group leader in the Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems Program in this University. Promoter of the Institute for Evolutionary Biology, IBE (UPF-CSIC). His research field is in different aspects on the study of the human genome variation and diversity: human population genetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics and the interaction between human evolutionary biology and other fields, including medicine, genetic of complex diseases, statistical genetics and others. Recent publications are mainly on the footprint of natural selection in the human genome and the emerging field of Evolutionary Systems Biology, with the relationship of molecular networks and adaptation in genome-wide perspective. He has published over 300 research papers, most of them since his major dedication to genome studies (since 1992). Director of ICREA (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) till 2015. |
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DEANNA CHURCH, PhD Dr. Deanna Church is currently the Senior Director of Applications at 10x Genomics. In this role, she leads a diverse group of scientists who are developing approaches for improved genome analysis, using Linked-Reads, as well as expanding the application space of single cell transcriptome profiling. Previously, she was Senior Director of Genomics and Content at Personalis, where she helped advance the field of genomics based clinical diagnostics. Prior to that, she was a staff scientist at NCBI, where she oversaw several projects concerning managing and displaying genomic data, including dbVar, a database of structural variation, the NCBI Variation Viewer, the NCBI Map Viewer, the Clone database and the NCBI Remap service. Dr. Church was also a founding member of the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC), an international group charged with improving the reference assembly for humans and other model organisms and was an author on the two seminal manuscripts describing the human and mouse genome sequences. She has experience in molecular biology, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1990 and received her doctoral degree in the Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine with Dr. John Wasmuth. She did post-doctoral training in developmental biology with Dr. Janet Rossant at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. |
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NICOLE SORANZO, PhD Prof. Soranzo is a human geneticist working in the field of human complex trait genetics. Her research focuses on the application of large-scale genomic analysis to unravel the spectrum of human genetic variation associated with cardiometabolic and immune diseases, and its interaction with non-genetic and environmental cues. Prof. Soranzo graduated in biological sciences at the University of Milano, Italy, with a dissertation on population and evolutionary genetics. She later obtained a PhD in genetics from the University of Dundee, and undertook post-doctoral training in human population and statistical genetics at University College London, conducting applied and methodological work in evolutionary genetics and association studies. In 2005 Prof. Soranzo joined the Pharmacogenomics Department at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development (Raritan, USA). In 2007 she joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and since 2009 she has led her own team. In 2015 she was additionally appointed as Professor of Human Genetics at the School of Clinical Medicine of the University of Cambridge. Furthermore, Prof. Soranzo is a member of the Cambridge University Platelet Biology and Cardiovascular groups, the NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics and the EU BLUEPRINT and EpiGeneSys projects. She serves in several steering committees and scientific advisory boards, and is on the editorial board for the European Journal of Human Genetics, Genome Medicine, Trends in Genetics, and Molecular Biology and Evolution. |
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MONDAY, 3 APRIL | ||
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08:00 | 08:30 | Registration |
08:30 | 09:00 | Opening by Alfonso VALENCIA (ISCB) |
09:00 | 09:45 | Keynote Deanna CHURCH, 10x Genomics California, USA Advancing genomics drop by drop |
Session 1: Methods (chair: Stephan Ossowski) |
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09:45 | 10:03 | OP1 Mapping and phasing of structural variation in patient genomes using nanopore sequencing Wigard KLOOSTERMAN, UMC Utrecht NL |
10:03 | 10:21 | OP2 GemBS – fast and efficient WGBS data processing pipeline Angelika MERKEL, Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), Barcelona ES |
10:21 | 10:50 | Coffee Break |
10:50 | 11:08 | OP3 High-Throughput Data Analysis Workflow for Large Scale Epigenome Profiling Povilas GIBAS, Department of Biological DNA Modification, Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University LT |
11:08 | 11:26 | OP4 GRIDSS: sensitive and specific genomic rearrangement detection using positional de Bruijn graph assembly Daniel CAMERON, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria AU |
11:26 | 11:44 | OP5 Count-based Probabilistic PCA for single-cell data analysis Ghislain DURIF, CNRS, FR |
11:44 | 12:02 | OP6 Approaches to building spatio-temporal models of splicing regulation that include RNA structure Dmitri PERVOUCHINE, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona ES |
12:02 | 12:20 | OP7 OrthoFiller — identifying missing annotations for evolutionarily conserved genes Michael DUNNE, University of Oxford UK |
12:20 | 12:38 | OP8 Bi-CoPaM: an automated method to identify clusters of consistently co-expressed genes from multiple heterogeneous transcriptomic datasets Basel ABU-JAMOUS, University of Oxford UK |
12:38 | 14:00 | Lunch and Poster viewing |
14:00 | 14:05 | Introduction by Cedric NOTREDAME (CRG) |
14:05 | 14:50 | Keynote Jan KORBEL, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg DE From genomic variation to molecular mechanism |
Session 2: Population Genomics (chair: Mario Cáceres) |
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14:50 | 15:08 | OP9 Genetic variants of 1,011 natural yeast genomes provide a deep insight into the multiplicity of the genetic basis of phenotypic diversity Anne FRIEDRICK, University of Strasbourg FR |
15:08 | 15:26 | OP10 Population Genomics of Transposable Elements in Drosophila Maite G. BARRÓN ADURIZ, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Barcelona ES |
15:26 | 15:44 | OP11 Genome-wide scans between two geographically isolated honeybee subpopulations reveal putative signatures of human-mediated selection Melanie PAREJO, Swiss Bee Research Center, Agroscope and Institute of Bee Health, University of Bern CH |
15:44 | 16:00 | Tech Talk 1: BaseSpace Sequence Hub: Software suite for high throughput sequencing technology and NGS data management Kevin MIRANDA, EMEA Bioinformatics Specialist, Illumina |
16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30 | 16:48 | OP12 Exploiting NGS data to quantify within-host viral evolution Christopher ILLINGWORTH, University of Cambridge UK |
16:48 | 17:06 | OP13 Studying miRNA and isomiR populations in Norwegian rheumatoid arthritis patients Fatima HEINICKE and XiangFu ZHONG, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Oslo, University Hospital NO |
17:06 | 17:24 | OP14 Insights into gorilla speciation and current genetic health with structural variant analysis Andrey GRIGORIEV, Rutgers University USA |
17:24 | 17:39 | Tech Talk 2: A One-stop Shop for Finding and Accessing Genomics Data Manuel CORPAS, Scientific Lead at Repositive |
17:39 | 19:30 | Poster Session |
20:00 | Conference Dinner will be held at the Marina Bay restaurant (Calle Marina, 19-21) – Ticket required | |
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TUESDAY, 4 APRIL | ||
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08:45 | 09:00 | Morning welcome and Introduction |
09:00 | 09:05 | Introduction by Janet KELSO (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) |
09:05 | 09:50 | Keynote Jaume BERTRANPETIT Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain Unveiling the information in the variation in the human genome: from ancestry to adaptation |
Session 3: Human Variation (chair: Janet Kelso) |
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09:50 | 10:08 | OP15 “Evolutionarily ancient genes accumulate intronic deletions in human populations” Maria RIGAU, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University UK |
10:08 | 10:26 | OP16 Life beyond NGS: Overcoming current limitations in the study of human inversions with new high-throughput methods to validate and genotype them in multiple individuals Mario CACERES, ICREA and Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ES |
10:26 | 11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00 | 11:18 | OP17 eDGAR: a webserver for analysing the relationship among genes and polygenic diseases Giulia BABBI, University of Bologna IT |
11:18 | 11:36 | OP18 Where did you come from, where did you go: Integrating SV Detection Methods for Horizontal Gene Transfer Detection from NGS Data Kathrin TRAPPE, Robert Koch Institute DE |
11:36 | 11:54 | OP19 RNA editing heterogeneity in human brain revealed by Single Cell RNAseq Ernesto PICARDI, University of Bari & IBBE-CNR, IT |
11:54 | 12:12 | OP20 A Real-time Approach for Privacy Protection in Next Generation Sequencing Tobias P. LOKA, Robert Koch Insitute, DE |
12:12 | 12:30 | OP21 Analysis of copy-number variations from whole-exome sequencing data using the CANOES software reveals rare genomic rearrangements involved in neuropsychiatric disorders Olivier QUENEZ, Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, Inserm U1245, Normandy Centre for Genomic and Personalized Medicine, CNR-MAJ, Rouen FR |
12:30 | 12:48 | OP22 Genetic stratification in a cohort of patients with familiar dilated cardiomyopathy Lenka PIHEROVA, Institute of Inherited Metabolic Disorders, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University CZ |
12:48 | 13:03 | Tech Talk 3: End-2-End Infrastructure for NGS Wolfgang MERTZ, CTO Life Sciences and Healthcare, Dell EMC Isilon |
13:03 | 14:30 | Poster Session |
Session 4: Genomics (chair: Cedric Notredame) |
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14:30 | 14:48 | OP23 Characterization of Vaccinium vitis-idaea genetic diversity and its association with environmental and biochemical variables Lourdes PENA-CASTILLO, Memorial University of Newfoundland CA |
14:48 | 15:06 | OP24 Findings from the Fourth Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, a community experiment to evaluate phenotype prediction Gaia ANDREOLETTI, University of California, Berkeley USA pending |
15:06 | 15:24 | OP25 Genome variation in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida glabrata Laia CARRETÉ, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona ES |
15:24 | 15:42 | OP26 Integrative analysis of genetic, transcriptomic and epigenetic data to decipher and model gene regulatory networks in drosophila embryos Swann FLOC’HLAY, IBEns (UMR CNRS 8197 - INSERM 1024), FR |
15:42 | 16:10 | Coffee break |
16:10 | 16:28 | OP27 Evolution of Proboscidea genomes illustrated by variant analysis Andrey GRIGORIEV, Rutgers University USA |
16:28 | 16:46 | OP28 Real time pathogen identification from metagenomic Illumina datasets Simon H. TAUSCH, Robert Koch Institute DE |
16:46 | 16:50 | Introduction by Stephan OSSOWSKI (CRG) |
16:50 | 17:35 | Keynote Nicole SORANZO, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge UK Genetic and epigenetic variation in population-based cohorts informs cardiometabolic and immune disease risk |
17:35 | Awards and closing remarks | |
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WEDNESDAY, 5 APRIL | ||
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Hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Next-generation sequencing conference covers a broad range of topics in genome sequencing and analysis. Our particular focus areas in 2017 are structural variation and population genomics.
New sequencing technologies have opened up the possibility to sequence genomes at a previously unprecedented scale. The sequencing of whole genomes from large number of individuals representing multiple populations allows the extent of genetic diversity, of both at the single nucleotide level, and of larger structural variants, to be catalogued. Using such data the genetic basis of evolutionary and disease processes can be explored. The meeting will draw together researchers from diverse backgrounds who develop and apply novel tools to sequencing data. Topics covered will include, but are not limited to, genome assembly, variant characterization and analysis, gene expression, population history, disease, and more!
The conference program will be a combination of keynote talks from renown scientists with research focusing on structural variation and population genomics, a selection of thought-provoking submitted abstract talks, technology and applications talks, as well as posters.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
JAUME BERTRANPETIT, PhD Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain |
DEANNA CHURCH, PhD 10x Genomics California, USA |
JAN KORBEL, PhD European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Germany |
NICOLE SORANZO, PhD University of Cambridge United Kingdom |
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