Beyond the Genome 2013

DAY 1 – October 1^st – Single cell Analyses

Overview and Cancer single cell work: Session chair also
Nicholas Navin -The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Cancer sequencing and evolution:
Sunney Xie – Harvard
Xu Xun – BGI
James Hicks -CSHL
RNA single cell sequencing:
Fuchou Tang – Peking
Itai Yanai – Israel
Human Variation and Disease:
Thierry Voet - Sanger
Jacob Kitzman – Plasma cell free DNA sequencing
Keynote:
Stephen Quake – Stanford and Fluidigm
Exhibitor Viewing and Drinks reception

DAY 2 – October 2^nd – Plant Genomics

Overview and plant genomics from a bioinformatics perspective:
Session chair
Mario Caccamo – Genome Analysis Centre
Epic project (epigenetics in plants)
Rob Martienssen – CSHL
Epigenomics in plants
Ryan Lister – University of Westerm Australia
Tomato genetics
Neelima Sinha – UC davis
1001 Arabidopsis project
Robert Schmitz (Salk) – 1001 Arabidopsis project and CHiP-Seq
GWAS in Arabidopsis
Magnus Nordborg
Flowering in wheat
Jorge Dubcovsky – UC Davis
Conference Dinner

DAY 3 – October 3^rd  - Informatics  

Chairs Alicia Oshlack, Yingrui Li and Michael Schatz to chair the bioinformatics challenge.
Keynote talk
David Haussler
Galaxy
James Taylor – Emory and Galaxy
‘Big data’
Chris Dagdigian – Bioteam
Computational approaches for studying evolutionary genetics
Janet Kelso – Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology