NGS 2015 Glasgow will take place on 22nd & 23rd April and be preceded by a one day NGS Bioinformatics Workshop on 21st April. This event comes in partnership with the NHS West of Scotland Genetics Service and the University of Glasgow’s Polyomics research facility and will be held in the heart of Glasgow city centre.
This year will see a strong focus on Bioinformatics with an entire day dedicated to a workshop that will be run at the University of Glasgow and cover the steps from raw NGS data all the way to Assembly (eg, raw data, QC, mapping of reads, visualising DNAseq and RNAseq data, understanding the workflows).
+ show speakers and program
KEYNOTE – Prof Dame Janet Thornton – Director of EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge
Nicola Williams – Head of Lab, West of Scotland Genetic Services
KEYNOTE – Prof Sean Grimmond – Institute of Cancer Services, Glasgow
KEYNOTE - Prof David Porteous – Human Molecular Genetics & Medicine, Edinburgh
Dr Eran Elhaik – Bioinformatics Hub, University of Sheffield
Dr Steve Abbs – Director, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
Rachel Butler – Cardiff & Vale University Health Board
Dr Chris Ponting – MRC Functional Genomic Unit, University of Oxford
Dr Bhupinder Bhullar – Head of Lab, Novartis, Basel
Dr Sarah Leigh-Brown – Deputy Head, Genetic Service, CR UK, Cambridge
Dr Oliver Hofmann, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Dr Mick Watson, Director of ARK-Genomics, University of Edinburgh
