Tuesday 3rd September 2019
| Start | End | Who | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:30 | 12:20 | Registration and lunch | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Mick Watson | Introduction and Welcome |
| 12:30 | 13:20 | Keynote: Wendy Bickmore | Understanding function in the non-coding genome |
| 13:20 | 14:10 | Keynote: Sarah Teichmann | Immunogenomics one cell at a time |
| 14:10 | 14:40 | Coffee | |
| 14:40 | 16:00 | Evolving Technologies 1 | |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Clive Brown (Oxford Nanopore) | The latest from Nanopore sequencing |
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Vince Smith (Illumina) | Advances in sequencing technology that are transforming genomics |
| 15:20 | 15:35 | Louise Williams (New England BioLabs) | New England BioLabs |
| 15:35 | 15:50 | Matt Loose | Long Read Club - the future is very long reads indeed |
| 15:50 | 16:00 | Yannick Delpu (BioNano) | Next-Generation Cytogenomics: High-throughput Mapping of Structural Variation in Genetic Disease and Clinical Oncology |
| 16:00 | 16:25 | Coffee | |
| 16:25 | 18:10 | Evolving Technologies 2 | |
| 16:25 | 16:50 | Omer Bayraktar | The Rise of Spatial Genomics |
| 16:50 | 17:10 | Rade Drmanac (BGI/Complete): | A new generation of NGS: PCR free DNBseq + CoolNGS chemistry with unlabeled nucleotides + Single-tube unique cobarcoding (stLFR). |
| 17:10 | 17:25 | Marie Just Mikkelsen (Samplix) | Xdrop™ - Targeted Sequencing into the Dark and Unknown |
| 17:25 | 17:45 | Tuval Ben Yehezkel (LoopSeq): | LoopSeq Synthetic Long Read Sequencing and Its Applications: from Microbiome to Transcriptome and Beyond |
| 17:45 | 17:55 | Klaus Hentrich (TTP LabTech) | Cost-effective miniaturised NGS library preparation using positive-displacement liquid handling technology |
| 17:55 | 18:10 | Mike Quail | PacBio comes of age |
| 18:10 | 19:30 | Wine, snacks, and posters |
Wednesday 4th September 2019
Parallel sessions
| Time | A | B |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:40 | Plant and Animal Genomics | Evolutionary Genomics |
| 11:15 - 13:15 | Clinical Genomics | Microbes I |
| 14:15 - 16:00 | Developmental Biology | Microbes II |
| 16:20 - 18:00 | Bioinformatics and software | Genome Engineering |
Session A
| Start | End | Who | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 10:40 | Plant and animal genomics | |
| 09:00 | 09:25 | Emily Humble | Scimitar-horned oryx conservation genomics |
| 09:25 | 09:50 | Rachel Gilroy | The broiler chicken intestinal microbiome: interventions to improve health and welfare |
| 09:50 | 10:05 | Jon Rock (Lexogen) | Improving the quality of your RNA Next Generation Sequencing with Lexogen |
| 10:05 | 10:20 | Matthew Parker | Direct RNA Sequencing of the Arabidopsis transcriptome with Nanopores |
| 10:20 | 10:35 | Miriam Schreiber | Increasing recombination in the barley (Hordeum vulgare) by manipulating meiotic genes |
| 10:40 | 11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | 13:15 | Clinical Genomics | |
| 11:15 | 11:40 | Sian Ellard | Application of genomic sequencing technology to the diagnosis of rare diseases: from the 100,000 Genomes Project to a nationally commissioned Genomic Medicine Service |
| 11:40 | 11:55 | Ben Harvey (Agilent) | Agilent’s workflow solutions for the clinical genomics laboratory |
| 11:55 | 12:20 | Mike Inouye | The utility of polygenic risk scores for cardiovascular disease |
| 12:20 | 12:35 | Nick Jordan (Fluidigm) | The Juno System: Automated and cost-effective NGS workflows leveraging Fluidigm microfluidic technology |
| 12:35 | 12:50 | Sergey Koren | Telomere-to-telomere assembly of complete human chromosomes |
| 12:50 | 13:05 | Giordano Bottà | Integration of Polygenic Risk Score in CAD risk models for clinical use |
| 13:05 | 13:15 | Alexandra Martin (Stilla) | Crystal digital PCR™ – The next generation |
| 13:15 | 14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | 16:00 | Developmental Biology | |
| 14:15 | 14:40 | Alistair McGregor | Investigating the developmental consequences of whole genome duplication in arachnids |
| 14:40 | 15:05 | Mansi Srivastava | Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape for whole-body regeneration |
| 15:05 | 15:15 | Brennan Martin (Qiagen) | QIAGEN Solutions for Developmental Biology |
| 15:15 | 15:35 | Tamir Chandra | Mouse embryonic stem cells switch from naïve to formative state during transition through G2M |
| 15:35 | 15:55 | Laura Mincarelli | Combined short and long read single-cell sequencing identify aging related transcriptional profile and splicing landscape in hematopoietic stem cells and progenitors |
| 15:55 | 16:20 | Coffee | |
| 16:20 | 18:00 | Bioinformatics and Software | |
| 16:20 | 16:45 | Rachel Colquhoun | Nucleotide level analysis of genetic variation in the bacterial pan-genome with Pandora |
| 16:45 | 17:10 | Anton Korobeynikov | Tools for assembly graph analysis and more |
| 17:10 | 17:35 | Apurva Narechania | What do we gain when tolerating loss? The information bottleneck, lossy compression, and detecting horizontal gene transfer |
| 17:35 | 18:00 | Wenbin Guo | 3D RNA-seq - a powerful and flexible tool for rapid and accurate differential expression and alternative splicing analysis of RNA-seq data for biologists |
Session B
| Start | End | Who | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 10:40 | Evolutionary genomics | |
| 09:00 | 09:25 | Reuben Nowell | Genome evolution in the bdelloid rotifers: ancient asexuality and genome structure |
| 09:25 | 09:50 | Alejandro Sanchez-Flores | Omics of the fish-tongue-eating parasitic isopod Cymothoa exigua |
| 09:50 | 10:15 | Max Stammnitz | Tracing the evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils |
| 10:15 | 10:40 | Fiona Jane Whelan | The coincident (co-occurrence and avoidance) relationships of genes in prokaryote genomes |
| 10:40 | 11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | 13:15 | Microbes I | |
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Anna V. Protasio: | Parasites within parasites: transposable elements in platyhelminthes |
| 11:45 | 12:15 | Julie Segre: | Human skin microbiome: trans-kingdom, host-immune interactions |
| 12:15 | 12:40 | Emma Ainsworth | Long-Read Sequencing Determines Genome Structure in Salmonella Typhi |
| 12:40 | 13:05 | Leigh Monahan | Morphoseq enables closed circle bacterial genome assemblies from short read platforms |
| 13:05 | 13:15 | Ralph Vogelsang (PacBio) | PacBio HiFi Long Reads for Metagenomic Discoveries |
| 13:15 | 14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | 16:00 | Microbes II | |
| 14:15 | 14:40 | David Gally | Prophage-mediated chromosomal rearrangements in Escherichia coli O157 |
| 14:40 | 15:05 | Miren Iturriza-Gomara | Rotavirus vaccines and strain diversity |
| 15:05 | 15:30 | Max Stammnitiz | Scrutinising nanopore sequencing for freshwater microbiomes |
| 15:30 | 15:55 | Tania Duarte | Deep Sequencing of Microbial Communities in Cystic Fibrosis Airways |
| 15:55 | 16:20 | Coffee | |
| 16:20 | 18:00 | Genome Engineering | |
| 16:20 | 16:45 | Maria Paz Zafra Martin | Engineering the cancer genome at single base resolution |
| 16:45 | 17:10 | Julian Gruenewald | CRISPR DNA base editors with reduced rna off-target effects |
| 17:10 | 17:35 | Mike McGrew | Genome editing in chickens |
| 17:35 | 18:00 | Spring Tan | Genome Wide CRISPR Knockout Screen Identifies Host Factors Involved in Bovine Herpes Virus Type 1 Infection |
Conference Dinner on the evening of Weds 4th - ticketed
Thursday 5th September 2019
| Start | End | Who | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 11:00 | Single Cell Genomics | |
| 09:00 | 09:25 | Iain Macaulay | Isoform Sequencing in Single Cells |
| 09:25 | 09:40 | Stephen Hague (10X Genomics) | From Single Cell Genomics to Multi-Omics |
| 09:40 | 10:05 | Martin Hemberg | Searching large collections of single cell data using scfind |
| 10:05 | 10:20 | Daniel Liber (Takara) | What are you missing from your single cell RNA-seq? Go beyond gene expression with the ICELL8 Single-Cell System! |
| 10:20 | 10:35 | Kristina Kirschner | Single cell Sequencing reveals Notch mediated secondary senescence |
| 10:35 | 10:50 | Zhouchun Shang (MGI/BGI) | Dissecting cell heterogeneity using single-cell omics powered by DNBSEQ |
| 10:50 | 11:05 | Daniel Seaton | Mapping the functions of human disease risk alleles during neuronal development using multiplexed differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells |
| 11:05 | 11:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:30 | 12:20 | Keynote: Jane Carlton | Bringing genomics into malaria field studies in India |
| 12:20 | 13:10 | Keynote: Kirsten Bos | Genomic reconstructions of ancient pathogens |
| 13:10 | THE END | Packed lunch available |