CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Every month technological barriers are broken in the field of sequencing and several benefits derive from these new achievements. Amongst these, the availability of inexpensive and accessible technology for use in a variety of biology/health care research areas, as well as in environmental, safety and legal domains, is notable. There remain challenges to be solved, however, such as the management, the interpretation and beneficial use of the produced data. Nonetheless these new breakthroughs provide a clear path forward to sequencing paradigms that will make a huge impact even in everyday life.

This meeting aims to bring together worldwide experts in the field, with a particular focus on future technologies and applications. The talks will combine provider updates on coming improvements as well as presentations from scientific experts on recent discoveries and applications.

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Exhibitors - To see a floorplan and book a stand, click here.

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SPEAKERS PROGRAMME

Keynote Speaker -   Patrick Chain, LANL

Patrick is the Team Leader of Next Gen Sequencing and Metagenomics Applications within the Genome Science Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).   The team's primarily goals revolve around the development of bioinformatic methods to derive meaningful biological information from next gen technologies, particularly in the fields of microbial, single cell and metagenomics. He also serves as the DOE Joint Genome Institute-LANL lead working on microbial genome improvement and metagenome assembly.

We are very privileged to have Patrick as our Keynote Speaker. 

He has been in the microbial and metagenomics fields for >10yrs and is talking about 'Exploring the Microbial World - Using NGS'.

KEYNOTE 9.15 - 10.00	Patrick Chain, LANL	Exploring the Microbial World Using NGS
Roche Speakers 10.00 - 10.30	Kalvinder Kuar, Oxford Uni	Enhanced Diagnosis of Cardiomyopathy using Next Generation Sequencing
10.30 - 11.00	Dr Ilaria Fasanella, Sequencing Product Specialist	Overview of new products for oncology research and the future path for new sequencing technologies from 454 sequencing
Illumina Speakers 11.30 - 12.00	David Buck, Oxford Uni	Technological Options for Balancing the Speed, Cost and Breadth of Variant Discovery Through Sequencing
12.00 - 12.30	Neil Ward, R & D Illumina	The latest Illumina sequencing technology improvements
12.30 - 1.00	Toby Ost, Pacific Biosciences	Applications of the PacBio RS®
1.00 - 1.15 1.15 - 2.15	SNAPSHOTS LUNCH, EXHIBITORS, POSTER VIEWING
2.15 - 2.45	James Hadfield, CRI	Clinical sequencing workflows
2.45 - 3.15	Michael Quail, Sanger Institute	Welcome to the home of sequencing!
3.45 - 4.15	Paul Flicek, EBI	Lessons in informatics from the 1000 Genomes Project
4.15 - 4.45	Massimiliano Pagani, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Italy	Long intergenic non-coding RNAs landscape of human lymphocytes
4.45 - 5.00	PRIZE DRAW - CLOSE

EXHIBITORS:

AME Bioscience / Integenx

Beckman Coulter UK Ltd

Caliper a PerkinElmer Company

Corning Life Science / Axygen Biosciences

Diagenode

Fluidigm

Fluidx

Gilson UK

Hamamatsu Photonics UK Ltd

Illumina

Integrated DNA Technologies BVBA

LGC Genomics/KBioscience

Labtech International

PAA

Partek

Roche Applied Science

Sigma Aldrich

Takara BioEurope

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)

Trinean

HOTELS IN THE AREA

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How to Get There:

By car from the South: Leave the M11 at junction 9 and take the A1301 towards Cambridge. From the Stumps Cross roundabout system take the first left (about 800m). At the next small roundabout follow the signpost for 'Genome Campus'

By car from the North: Leave the M11 at junction 10 (note that M11 junction 9 is restricted and accessible from the South only). Travel a mile or so on the A505 in the direction of Saffron Walden to a roundabout and take the third exit (A1301 towards Saffron Waldron). Pass two turnings to Hinxton, and take the next right, a small roundabout, signposted to Genome Campus.

By Train: Cambridge is on the main line from London Kings Cross. Whittlesford, Great Chesterford and Audley End stations are on the line from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge. Journey time from London is under an hour.

Please note that Whittlesford and Great Chesterford stations do not have a taxi rank or telephone. Please use either Cambridge or Audley End stations if a taxi has not been pre-booked.

Timetables available from Railtrack

By air:
London Stansted is about a 30 minute drive to Hinxton.
London City and London Luton are approximately 1 hours drive.
London Heathrow and London Gatwick are about two hours drive.

Low cost airline "Go", Ryanair, KLMuk, Virgin Express, KLM's Buzz, and SAS all land in Stansted and fly from most of the larger European cities.

Web sites for no-frills airlines landing in Stansted:
http://www.ryanair.com
http://www.buzzaway.com
http://www.go-fly.com

For more travel information to and from the airports try gobycoach.com or railtrack.co.uk

 

Local Taxi Companies:
Phil's Taxi Services	Telephone: 01223 521918
Academy	Telephone: 08000 191022
Panther Taxis	Telephone: 01223 715715
Diamond Taxis	Telephone: 01223 523523
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Hinxton Hall:

Conference Centre Postal Address:

Hinxton Hall Conference Centre

Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

Hinxton

Cambridge

CB10 1RQ

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