Final program - VIB Conference

Revolutionizing Next-Generation Sequencing
Tools And Technologies
15 & 16 January 2015
Kinepolis Leuven, Belgium
Day 1: Thursday 15 January 2015
08.45–09.20 Coffee/Registration
MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 1: Topic Population scale sequencing
Chair: Halina Novak
09.20–09.30 Welcome
09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Jan Korbel, EMBL, Germany: From genomic variation to
molecular mechanism
10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Radoje Drmanac, CSO Complete Genomics, USA:
Enabling large scale "perfect" personal genome sequencing
10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Mike Lelivelt, Director of Bioinformatics and Software
Products at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Life Technologies), USA: Performance Update for
Ion Torrent Semiconductor Sequencing
10.55–11.05 Sponsor Talk: Peter Schols, CEO Diploid, Belgium: Outsourcing human
genome interpretation
11.05–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.05 Invited Speaker: Xun Xu, BGI, China: Single Cell Sequencing Technology
and Applications
12.05–12.30 Company Speaker: Alex Dickinson, SVP Strategic Initiatives, Illumina, USA:
Geonomics: Sequencing at a Global Scale
12.30–12.40 Sponsor Talk: Jurgen Goudmaeker, Sales Specialist Eppendorf, Belgium:
Eppendorf and NGS Applications
12.40–14.00 Lunch & Poster session
MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 2: Topic: From complex/rare samples to rich data
Chair: Mark Veugelers
09.20–09.30 Welcome
09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Eske Willerslev, Copenhagen University, Denmark: What can
we learn from Ancient Genetics and Genomics
10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Marie Mikkelsen, CTO Samplix, Denmark: PINS – A New
Front-end for Next Generation Sequencing
10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Jeremy Gillespie, Business Development Enzymatics, UK:
NGS Library Construction-from Bench to Clinic
10.55–11.05: Sponsor Talk: Bjoern Textor, NGS Application Specialist, New England
Biolabs, USA: Repair of FFPE DNA sample to improve NGS library yield and quality
11.05–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.05 Invited Speaker: David Jaffe, Broad Institute, USA: Personal genome
assembly
12.05–12.30 Company Speaker: Max Van Min, CEO Cergentis, the Netherlands: Targeted
locus amplification for hypothesis neutral next generation sequencing and haplotyping
of selected genomic loci
12.30–12.40 Sponsor Talk: Paul Lomax, Strategic Business Development Leader - Genomics
& NGS, PerkinElmer, UK: Enabling NGS
12.40-14.00 Lunch & Poster session
AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 1: topic: Emerging DNA sequencing technologies
Chair: Peter Verhasselt
14.00–14.35 Invited Speaker: Evan Eichler, University of Washington, USA: Resolving the
structural variation complexity of genomes using single molecule real time sequencing
technology
14.35–15.00 Company Speaker: Paul Schaffer, Lifecycle Leader Sequencing Platforms
Roche Diagnostics, USA: Why long read, quick turn around time, single molecule
sequencing is fit for the clinic
15.00–15.25 Sponsor Talk: Johnsee Lee, CEO Personal Genomics Inc., Taiwan:
Optoelectronic Single-Molecule Sequencing: The Next Generation NGS for Clinical
Applications
15.25–15.35 Sponsor Talk: Tony Montoye, Head of marketing & applications Trinean,
Belgium: Improve input DNA/RNA sample QC using a standardized platform
15.35–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Mark Akeson, University of California Santa Cruz, USA:
Nanopore Sequencing Comes of Age
16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: Gordon Hamilton, CEO Picoseq, France: SIMDEQ – a
Novel Technology for Single-Molecule Genetic & Epigenetic Analysis
17.00–17.10 Sponsor Talk: Markus Tilmes, European Sales Manager, Advanced Analytical
Technologies Inc., USA: Using the Fragment Analyzer to simplify your NGS Library QC
17.10–17.20 Sponsor Talk: Audrey Coiffic, Business Development Manager, Sophia
Genetics, Switzerland: Sophia Genetics: Towards Data Driven Medicine
17.20–17.30 Sponsor Talk: Geoffrey Henno, Genomics Sales Agent Agilent, Belgium: NGS
workflows for small and large panels, exomes, genomes
17.30–17.40 Sponsor Talk: Marc Hahn, Product specialist Macrogen, Korea: Macrogen:
Advancing Through genomics Sequencing service Overview
17.40 –18.30 Closing drink
AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 2: topic: Single-cell genomics
Chair: Albena Jordanova
14.00–14.35 Invited Speaker: Fuchou Tang, Peking University, China: Dissecting gene
regulation network in human early embryos at single-cell and single-base resolution
14.35–15.10 Invited Speaker: Mats Nilsson, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of
Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden: In situ sequencing for
expression and mutation profiling of fixed cells and tissue sections
15.10–15.20 Sponsor Talk: François-Xavier Sicot, Senior Product Manager NGS, Takara
Clontech, France: The SMARTer way to low input RNA-Seq
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Ido Amit, Weizzman Institute, Israel: Shaping the blood:
Lessons from Chromatin and single cell RNA-seq dynamics
16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: Armin Schneider, Senior Vice President Research Sygnis,
Germany: TruePrime, a novel MDA method for DNA and RNA amplification based on
TthPrimPol
17.00–17.25 Company Speaker: Jay West, Senior Director Of Research & Development,
Fluidigm, USA: Biomarker Discovery and Validation Using Low Coverage Sequencing
of Single cells
17.25–17.35 Sponsor Talk: Svenja Debey-Pascher, Technical Support Scientist Nugen
Technologies Europe, the Netherlands: An end-to-end solution for strand-specific RNASeq using picogram amounts of total RNA or single cell lysates
17.35 –18.30 Closing drink
Day 2: Friday 16 January 2015
09.00-09.30 Coffee/Registration
MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 1: topic: Epigenomics
Chair: Albena Jordanova
09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Ryan Lister, University of Western Australia, Australia:
Global Epigenomic Reconfiguration During Mammalian Brain Development
10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Tobias Ost, R&D Manager, Cambridge Epigenetix, UK:
Oxidative Bisulfite - a new way to look at true methylation and hydroxymethylation
10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Sharon Squazzo, Applications and Business Development
Scientist, Diagenode, USA: Enabling Solutions for Reproducible ChIP-Seq and
Epigenetic Analyses
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–11.50 Selected Speaker: Tim De Meyer, Ghent University, Belgium: HardyWeinberg theorem based identification of imprinted loci from large-scale omics data
11.50–12.15 Company Speaker: Annabelle Gerard, Group leader Nucleic Acid Assays,
HiFiBio, France: Epigenetic characterization of rare cell populations using droplet based
microfluidics
12.30-14.00 Lunch & Poster session
MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 2: topic: Next-Gen Transcriptomics
Chair: Peter Verhasselt
09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Jin Billy Li, Stanford University, USA: Regulatory and
Functional Landscape of RNA Editing
10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Alexander Seitz, CEO, Lexogen, Austria: RNA-seq does
not need to be complicated
10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Gary Schroth, Senior Director R&D, Illumina, USA:
Advanced Topics in RNA Sequencing – FFPE, Fusions and Viruses
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–12.05 Invited Speaker: James Eberwine, University of Pennsylvania, USA: The
Theory of Cellular Deconstruction – Expression Variability, Translational Regulation
and Functional Genomics
12.05–12.40 Invited Speaker: Patrik Stahl, SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institute, Sweden:
Spatial Transcriptomics - Transcriptome Sequencing of Single Cells in a Spatial Tissue
Context
12.40-14.00 Lunch & Poster session
AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 1: topic: Long reads, genome structure and genome
mapping
Chair: Halina Novak
14.00–14.35 Selected Speaker: Adam Ameur, Uppsala Genome Center, Science for Life
Laboratory Uppsala, Sweden: NGS method development for infection and oncology
research
14.35–15.00 Company Speaker: Ralph Vogelsang, European Sales Manager Pacific
Biosciences, USA: Single-Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT™) DNA Sequencing: Technology
Update and Recent Applications
15.00–15.25 Company Speaker: Han Cao, CSO Bionano Genomics, USA: Mapping the
“Dark Matter” of Genome – Long repeats, Complex Structural Variations and Towards
True Contiguity of de novo Assembly with Nanochannel Technology
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Nick Loman, University of Birmingham, UK: What can we
do with real-time nanopore sequencing?
16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: John Oliver, Vice President Research Nabsys, USA:
Nanochannels and Electronic Detection for Single-Molecule Based Mapping of
Genomes
17.00–17.20 Selected Speaker: Matthew Hestand, Department of Human Genetics, KU
Leuven, Belgium: Polymerase specific error rates identified by single molecule
sequencing
17.30 –18.30 Closing drink
AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 2: topic: Bioinformatics and data analysis
Chair: Mark Veugelers
14.00–14.35 Invited Speaker: James Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, USA: Accessible
and Reproducible Genomics at Scale with Galaxy
14.35–15.00 Company Speaker: Mike Furness, Senior Account Manager DNAnexus, UK:
Genome-based Medicine – networking science
15.00–15.25 Company Speaker: Pieter van Rooyen, CEO Edico Genome, USA: The need
for a compact high speed processing in NGS
15.30–16.00 Coffee Break
16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Peter Van Loo, Cancer Research UK London Research
Institute / Francis Crick Institute, UK: Molecular archaeology of cancer
16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: Hans Karten, CEO/CTO Genalice, the Netherlands: Taking
definitive care of the NGS big data deluge
17.00–17.25 Company Speaker: Roald Forsberg, VP Research and Development CLCBio,
Denmark: QIAGEN Bioinformatics - a comprehensive informatics platform for analysis,
interpretation and services
17.30–18.30 Closing drink