Who is speaking
Our carefully researched speaker programmes are further enhanced by the opportunity for the delegates and speakers to discuss topics of interest in more detail during panel and round table discussions. This means that the attendees not only benefit from the expertise of the high level speaker panel but also that of the other delegates.
If you have a cutting edge case study or a presentation and would like to join the speaker panel at one of our events, please contact Mike Burden at m.burden@oxfordglobal.co.uk
Our 2011 Speakers:
- Irina Abnizova
Senior Computer Biologist, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Tim Aitman
Professor of Clinical and Molecular Genetics, Imperial College London - Adam Ameur
Bioinformatician, Uppsala Genome Center, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University - Wilhelm Ansorge
Professor, EPFL, ETH Lausanne - Guy Barker
Director of the Genomics Resource Centre, Warwick University - Susanne Bauerschmidt
Head Molecular Profiling EU, Molecular Design and Informatics, Merck - Bhushan Bonde
Investigator, Computational Biology, QSci, Medicines Discovery and Development, GlaxoSmithKline R&D - James Bonfield
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - James Bradford
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, Oncology iMED R&D, AstraZeneca - Stine Büchmann-Møller
Genome Technologies, Biomarker Development, Novartis Pharma AG - John Castle
Computational Medicine & Medical Genomics, TRON - Translational Oncology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz - Marcus Claesson
Senior Bioinformatician, Dept Microbiology & Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork - Guy Cochrane
Team Leader European Nucleotide Archive team, EBI - Lachlan Coin
Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genomics, Imperial College - Adam Corner
Senior Field Application Scientist, RainDance Technologies - Paul Coupland
Project Manager, PacBio Instrument Development Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Harry Cuppens
Professor, Center for Human Genetics, Campus Gasthuisberg, KULeuven - Mark D. Robinson
Assistant Professor of Statistical Genomics, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich - Prof. Jurgen Del-Favero
Chief Technology Officer, Multiplicon - Patrick Descombes
Head of Functional Genomics Core, Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) - Joaquin Dopazo
Director of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Department, Príncipe Felipe Research Centre (CIPF) - James Flanagan
Research Fellow, Department of Surgery and Oncology. the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College - Slaven Garaj
Research Associate, Harvard Nanopore Group, Harvard University - Marco Gerlinger
Clinician Scientist, Cancer Research UK - Theo H. M. Smits
Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil ACW, Wädenswil (CH) - James Hadfield
Head of Genomics Core Facility, Cancer Research UK - Neil Hall
Professor and CGR co-Director, University of Liverpool - Jacques Izard
Principal Research Investigator, Molecular Biology, The Forsythe Institute - Edward J. Oakeley
Genome Technologies / Genome Sequencing Lab, Biomarker Development (BMD) - Human Genetics and Genomics (HGG), Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) - Steven Jones
Professor, Associate Director & Head, Bioinformatics, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency - Gurdip Kalley
Business Development Manager, S3 - Misha Kapushesky
Functional Genomics Team Leader, EBI - Sean Kennedy
National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) - Per Kraulis
Systems Architect Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm - Marzanna Künzli-Gontarczyk
Systems Expert Genomics/Transcriptomics – Next Generation Sequencing, Functional Genomics Center Zurich - Vladimir Lazar
Head of Functional Genomics, Head of Integrated Biology Platform and R&D, Institut Gustave Roussy - Kip Lord Bodi Jr.
Genomics Core Director, Tufts University School of Medicine - Suzanne M. Leal
Professor, Director, Center for Statistical Genetics Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine - Julian R. Marchesi
School of Biosciences, Department of Microbiology, Cardiff University - Genevieve Michils
Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics, Center for Human Genetics, University of Leuven - Anna Middleton
Ethics Researcher, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Professor Kalim Mir
Principal Investigator/ Research Fellow, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford - Makedonka Mitrev
Assistant Director of The Genome Institute & Research Assistant Professor of Genetics, The Genome Institute at Washington University - Richard Moore
Sequencing Group Leader, Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency - Ville Mustonen
Group Leader, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Florian Pauler
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Barlow Group, CEMM, Research Center for Molecular Medicine, of the Austrian Academy of Sciences - Anoja Perera
Senior Laboratory Manager, Stowers Institute & Chair of the DNA Sequencing Research Group (DSRG) of Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) - Matthias Prucha
Business Development & Support Manager Europe, Partek Incorporated - Mike Quail
Team Leader Sequencing R&D, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Jeroen Raes
Professor and Group Leader VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB - Senior Representative
Illumina - Senior Representative
Genedata - Senior Representative
Panasas - Senior Representative
Agilent Technologies - Senior Representative
Geneomatrix - Senior Representative
LGC Genomics - Senior Representative
RainDance Technologies - Peter Robinson
Institute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics Director - Computational Biology Group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - Tamas Rujan
Product Manager, Genedata Expressionist - Sascha Sauer
Max Planck Group Leader Nutrigenomics and Gene Regulation Group, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics - Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten
Associate Professor & Head of Metagenomics, Technical University of Denmark - Deepak Singh
Sr. Director Sales, Pacific Biosciences Europe - Lori Snyder
Senior Lecturer, Kingston University - Karim Sorefan
Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia - Tim Spector
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Kings College London - Elia Stupka
Co-Director and Head of Unit, Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute - Thomas Svensson
Facility Manager, Genome Bioinformatics, Science for Life Laboratory and Head, Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institute - Graham Taylor
Professor, Head of Genetics Development and Innovation Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine - Simon Thornber
IT Strategic Business Manager, GSK & Project Lead Pistoia Alliance - Jörg Tost
Groupleader Epigenetics, Centre National de Génotypage, Evry, Paris - Jessica Vamathevan
Principal Scientist, Computational Biology, GSK - Antoine van Kampen
Professor, Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (KEBB) Academic Medical Center (AMC) University of Amsterdam - Peter Verhasselt
Research Manager VIB - MAF - Neil Ward
European Sequencing Specialist, Illumina - Mick Watson
Director of ARK-Genomics, Division of Genetics and Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh - Gareth Wilson
Project Leader, University College London Cancer Institute - Huiqing Wu
Staff Pathologist and Assistant Professor Dept. of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute
