Cambridge Healthtech Institute Announces its Fifth Annual NGx: Next-Generation Sequencing Conference

July 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute announces its Fifth Annual NGx: Next-Generation Sequencing Conference to be held on September 26-28, 2011 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Speaker Highlights Include:

• Toby Bloom (Broad Institute) – Toby is an outstanding authority on all things related to NGS data management, including data sharing in the Cloud.

• Isaac Kohane (Children’s Hospital, Boston) – Zak is director of the Children’s informatics program and one of the founders of The Gene Partnership, an exciting new effort to integrate genome data into pediatric medical care.

• David Smith (Mayo Clinic) – One of several speakers describing new applications in transcriptome analysis, David will discuss how transcriptome sequencing is becoming a fundamental clinical tool in understanding cancer development

• Keith Robison (Infinity Pharmaceuticals) – The author of the excellent “Omics! Omics!” blog, Keith talks with refreshing candor about the real-world challenges of leveraging NGS within a pharma operation.

• Amit Meller (Boston University) – one of the co-founders of NABsys, Amit will present in the closing ‘Next-Next Generation sequencing’ session, discussing the latest progress in nanopore sequencing.

• Mark DePristo (Broad Institute) – Talk about ‘big data,’ Mark will discuss the management of data from multiple sequencing platforms in the 1000 Genomes Project.

• Two speakers – Gholson Lyon (CHOP) and Yaniv Erlich (Whitehead Institute) – will discuss two of the most exciting NGS software tools around, the new VAAST algorithm for mutation detection and DNA Sudoku.

In addition, two pre-conference short courses will be held on Sunday, September 25, 2011. The afternoon short course titled “Gene Sequence to Gene Function”, and an evening short course titled “Developing and Managing Your NGS Pipeline”. For more information, please visit http://www.healthtech.com/sequencing

To register, or for more information please visit http://www.healthtech.com/sequencing. Those that register by July 29 will save up to $350.

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Contact:
Tracey Fielding
Marketing Manager
Cambridge Healthtech Institute
tfielding@healthtech.com

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Since 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) is the preeminent life science network for leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations.