Final Agenda for CHI’s Fifth Annual NGx: Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Conference

PRLog (Press Release) - May 7, 2012 - NEEDHAM, MASS. – May 7, 2012 – Cambridge Healthtech Institute is pleased to announce the final agenda for the fifth annual NGx: Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis. This three day conference combines unique perspectives from a variety of researchers, engineers, biostatisticians, and software developers involved in NGS data analysis. Sequencing a genome is only the beginning. Several layers of analysis are necessary to convert raw sequence data into understanding of functional biology. First, error sources in the original raw data from multiple platforms and diverse applications must be accounted for. Then, as computational methods for assembly, alignment, and variation detection continue to advance, a broad range of genetic analysis applications including comparative genomics, high-throughput polymorphism detection, analysis of coding and non-coding RNAs, and identifying mutant genes in disease pathways can be addressed. Join us August 13-15, 2012 at the West Providence Hotel in Providence, RI. For more information, please visit http://www.healthtech.com/SequencingDataManagement

Speakers Include:  (partial listing)

- Mark Gerstein, Ph.D., Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Yale University

- Nancy J. Kelley, J.D., M.P.P., Founding Executive Director, New York Genome Center

- George Weinstock, Ph.D., Associate Director, The Genome Institute, Washington University

- Herve Tettelin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland

- Liliana Florea, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

- Michael J. Buck, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, The State University of New York at Buffalo

- May Dongmei Wang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

- Shrikant Mane, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Genetics; Senior Deputy Director, MBB Keck Biotech Services; Director, Microarray Resource, Yale University

- Matthew Ruffalo, Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University

- Yi Xing, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa

- Michelle Busby, Research Scientist in Marth Lab, Biology, Boston College

- Haiyan Huang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Statistics, University of California Berkeley

- Hugues Aschard, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Harvard University

- W. Richard McCombie, Ph.D., Resource Head, Cancer Center; Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

- Sheila Fisher, Assistant Director, Technology Development, Genome Sequencing Platform, The Broad Institute

- Vanessa M. Hayes, Ph.D., Professor, Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute

To view the full agenda, please visit
http://www.healthtech.com/SequencingDataManagement

Register by May 25, 2012 and save up to $350!

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