Final Agenda for CHI’s 3rd Annual X-Gen Congress & Expo

Navigating the Future of Genomic Technologies. March 5-8, 2012 at the Hilton San Diego Resort
 
Nov. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- NEEDHAM, MASS. – November 15, 2012 – Cambridge Healthtech Institute is pleased to announce the final agenda for the third annual X-Gen Congress & Expo. This four day event, hosts 8 conferences that will explore the potential of established and emerging genomic technologies. The genomics revolution continues to present the following challenges and opportunities, along with exciting new applications:

• Extraordinary output of genomic data
• Therapeutic interventions as well as diagnostic and prognostic tools for disease
• Genetic diversity and genomic variation
• Biological insights into the “active genome”
• Linking mutations to human diseases
• Understanding how host-microbes interactions impact health and disease
• Data storage, transfer, and management
• Efficient workflow strategies

Discover why technology and data are the driving forces that enable genomic discoveries as you design a program based on your unique research needs. For more information, please visit http://www.xgencongress.com/.

Clinical Genomics Tracks (Concurrent Programs Running March 5-7)

Fourth Annual Epigentics
Exploring Effects * Environment * Expression

Fourth Annual Quantitative PCR
Discovery. . .Data. . .Diseases. . .Diagnostics

Targeting Non-Coding RNA
The Long and the Short of It

Genomic Data Analysis and Interpretation
Turning Data into Knowledge

Next-Gen Sequencing Tracks (Concurrent Programs Running March 7-8)

RNA-Seq
Insights into the Active Genome

DNA-Seq
Microbes to Man and Back Again

Successful Sequencing
Projects…Pipelines…Platforms…Progress

Sequencing Data Storage and Management
IT Infrastructures to Support Data Intensive Science

To view the full agendas, please visit http://www.xgencongress.com/.

Plenary Keynotes:

"Recent Advances in Cancer Genome Sequencing"
Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics & Director, The Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine

"Making a Definitive Diagnosis: Successful Clinical Application of Diagnostic Whole Genome Sequencing"
Samuel Levy, Ph.D., Director of Genomic Sciences, Scripps Translational Science Institute and ScrippsGenomic Medicine, Professor of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute

"Can Genomes Improve Medical Outcomes?"
Elizabeth A. Worthey, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Human and Molecular Genetics Center, Pediatrics, Bioinformatics, Medical College of Wisconsin

About Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) is the preeminent life science network for leading researchers and business experts from top pharmaceutical, biotech and academic organizations. CHI’s portfolio of products includes Cambridge Healthtech Institute Conferences, Insight Pharma Reports, Barnett International, Cambridge Marketing Consultants, Cambridge Meeting Planners and Cambridge Healthtech’s Media Group, which includes numerous e-newsletters as well as Bio-IT World magazine.

Founded in 1992, Cambridge Healthtech Institute strives to develop quality information sources that provide valuable new insights and competing points of view while offering balanced coverage of the latest developments. Basic research related to commercial implications is covered, with heavy emphasis placed on end-user insights into new products and technology as well as coverage on the strategy behind the business. www.chicorporate.com

For more information:
Tracey Fielding
Cambridge Healthtech Institute
(781) 972-5429
tfielding@healthtech.com

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