Sessions are planned in the following areas:
- Sequencing technologies technologies
- Microbial genomics (including eukaryotic microbes)
- Microbial populations
- Plant and animal genomics
- Clinical genomics
- Developmental biology
- Single cell genomics
- Evolutionary genomics
- Bioinformatics/software
- Genome Engineering
Tuesday 3rd September 2019
| Start | End | What |
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| 11:00 | 12:30 | Registration and lunch |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Keynote: Prof Wendy Bickmore Understanding function in the non-coding genome |
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Keynote: Dr Sarah Teichmann Immunogenomics one cell at a time |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Coffee |
| 15:00 | 16:30 | Evolving Technologies 1 |
| Matt Loose (Long Read Club): Ultra-long reads with Oxford Nanopore |
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| Vince Smith (Illumina): Advances in sequencing technology that are transforming genomics |
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| Omer Bayraktar (Sanger): The Rise of Spatial Genomics |
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| 16:30 | 17:00 | Coffee |
| 17:00 | 18:00 | Evolving Technologies 2 |
| Rade Drmanac (BGI/Complete): A new generation of NGS: PCR free DNBseq + CoolNGS chemistry with unlabeled nucleotides + Single-tube unique cobarcoding (stLFR). |
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| Tuval Ben Yehezkel (LoopSeq): LoopSeq Synthetic Long Read Sequencing and Its Applications: from Microbiome to Transcriptome and Beyond |
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| Mike Quail (Sanger): PacBio Sequel II, 8M and tree of life |
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| 18:00 | 19:30 | Wine, snacks, posters |
Wednesday 4th September 2019
Parallel sessions A and B:
| Start | End | What | Start | End | What | |
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| 9:00 | 10:40 | Plant and animal genomics | 9:00 | 10:40 | Evolutionary Genomics | |
| Emily Humble: horned oryx conservation genomics (TBC) |
Reuben Nowell: Genome evolution in the bdelloid rotifers: ancient asexuality and genome structure |
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| Rachel Gilroy: The broiler chicken intestinal microbiome: interventions to improve health and welfare |
Laura Ross: Using genomic tools to study unusual insect reproduction and genetics |
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| 10:40 | 11:15 | Coffee | 10:40 | 11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | 13:15 | Clinical Genomics | 11:15 | 13:15 | Microbes I | |
| 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 |
Anna V. Protasio: Parasites within parasites: transposable elements in platyhelminthes |
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| Mike Inouye: The utility of polygenic risk scores for cardiovascular disease |
Julie Segre: Human skin microbiome: trans-kingdom, host-immune interactions |
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| 13:15 | 14:15 | Lunch | 13:15 | 14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | 16:00 | Developmental Biology | 14:15 | 16:00 | Microbes II | |
| Alistair McGregor: Investigating the developmental consequences of whole genome duplication in arachnids |
David Gally: Prophage-mediated chromosomal rearrangements in Escherichia coli O157 |
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| Mansi Srivastava: Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape for whole-body regeneration |
Miren Iturriza-Gomara: Rotavirus vaccines and strain diversity |
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| 16:00 | 16:20 | Coffee | 16:00 | 16:20 | Coffee | |
| 16:20 | 18:10 | Bioinformatics & Software | 16:20 | 18:10 | Genome Engineering | |
| Rachel Colquhoun: Nucleotide level analysis of genetic variation in the bacterial pan-genome with Pandora |
16:20 | 18:10 | Maria Paz Zafra Martin: Engineering the cancer genome at single base resolution |
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| Anton Koroneynikov: Tools for assembly graph analysis and more |
16:20 | 18:10 | TBC |
Conference Dinner on the evening of Weds 4th
Thursday 5th September 2019
| Start | End | What |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 11:00 | Single Cell Genomics |
| Iain Macaulay: Molecular biology, including long reads for scRNA-seq |
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| Martin Hemberg: Bioinformatics for scRNA-seq |
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| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Keynote: Prof Jane Carlton: Bringing genomics into malaria field studies in India |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Keynote: Dr Kirsten Bos: Genomic reconstructions of ancient pathogens |