Agendas
NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING CONGRESS
18th – 19th November 2013, London
THE EVENT
In keeping with Oxford Global’s highly successful life sciences series, an expert panel of 60 speakers will present a full conference programme covering the following key topics including:
NGS Congress
Day One
Day 1 Stream1 –Human Genome & Genetics Research –Next Generation Sequencing Technologies, Data Analysis and Platforms
- Sequencing platforms, and generating biological senses out of NGS data
- Comparison of NGS Platforms and Methods
- RNA Sequencing
- Whole Genome Sequencing
- miRNA- Sequencing
- DNA Sequencing
- Targeted Sequencing / Sequence Enrichment
- Data Analysis
Day 1 Stream 2 – Innovations in Epigenetics, Analytical Genomics & Applications of NGS in Food, Nutrition and Agriculture
- Comparative Genomics
- Epigenetics
- DNA methylation
- Human Metagenomics in Gut / Skin bacteria/ Metagenome
- Generating & Analysing data
- Pathogen genomics
- Bacteria & human health interactions
- Nutrigenomics
Day Two
Day 2 Stream 1 – NGS and Applications in Drug Discovery & Drug Development
- Application of NGS in therapeutic antibody discovery
- NGS & Pharmacogenetics in cardiology
- Gene discovery in Alzheimer’s disease
- Viral discovery
- Next-Generation Sequencing for Identification of microRNAs as Biomarkers
Day 2 Stream 2 – NGS Applications Case Studies – Personalised Medicine, Clinical & Molecular Diagnostics Development
- NGS Applications in Cancer, Biomarkers, Clinical Development/ Diagnostics
- Personalised Medicine Applications
- NGS in clinical applications
- Clinical validation of NGS for targeted sequencing for clinical applications
- Work Flow Management
CO- LOCATED WITH SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS CONGRESS
Day 1 Stream 3 –& Single Cell Genomics and Transcriptomics
- Whole genome amplification
- Isolation methods
- FACS
- Genome sequencing in single cells
- Single cell proteomics & metabolomics
- Challenges of integrating information
- Epigenetic analysis of single cells
Day 2 – Single Cell Genomics and Transcriptomics
- Applications in therapeutic areas: rare diseases, oncology, pre natal etc.
- Applications & implications in clinical and diagnostic development
- Quantitative imaging in single cells
- Novel analysis platforms
- Transcriptome analysis of single cells
- Managing & validating data for diagnostic use
