Programme

Final Programme

The Workshop will take place at Uppsalas Uppsala Konsert & Kongress (http://www.ukk.se).

Morning

• 08:30-09:00 Registration and posters up.
• 09:00-09:10 Welcome speech by chair of the COST Action SeqAhead Dr. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
• 09:10-10:00 Keynote speaker Professor Mark Pallen: "High-throughput sequencing in microbiology: progress and promise"
• 10:00-10:30 Peter Glaus, Antti Honkela, Magnus Rattray: "Bayesian Inference of Transcript expression from Sequencing data"
• 10:30-11:00 Christoph Bock: "EpiExplorer: Interactive exploration and analysis of human reference epigenomes in real time"
• 11:00-11:30 Coffee and poster session
• 11:30-12:00 Ning Li, CEO of Beijing Genomics Institute-Europe: "The Culture in Genome Research: Open-Resource and Collaboration"
• 12:00-12:30 Jussi Vanhatalo, Life Technologies: "Introduction to SOLiD WildFire System"
• 12:30-12:50 Greg Tyrelle, Complete Genomics: "Whole genome sequencing in medical research"
• 12:50-14:30 Lunch and poster session

Afternoon

• 14:30-15:45 Keynote speaker Martin Kerick, "Integrative analysis of cancer (epi)genomes with next generation sequencing"
• 15:45-16:05 Ralph Vogelsang, Pacific Biosciences: "Single-Molecule, Real-Time (SMRTTM) Monitoring of Biomolecules: 3rd Generation DNA Sequencing and Beyond"
• 16:05-16:25 Gustav Karlberg: "Illumina Next Generation Sequencing - keeping it Real."
• 16:25-17:00 Coffee and poster session
• 17:00-17:20 Erik Söderbäck: "Ion torrent Next Generation Sequencing Technology: the revolution of the revolution"
• 17:20-17:40 Thomas Svensson: SciLife Lab
• 17:40-18:00 Poster session