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Rendez-Vous Génome Québec 2012 - Two events (archives)

Locations: Presentations:
Thursday, December 6th 2012
McGill University New Residence Hall
3625 Avenue du Parc, Montreal
Workshops:
Friday, December 7th 2012
McGill University Trottier Building
3630 University street, Montreal
Date: December 6-7, 2012
Registration:
  • To register online for the presentations please follow this link.
  • To register online for the workshops please follow this link.
Présentations - December 6th

The growth in genomic technologies has opened the doors to a wide range of applications, making this a very exciting time for scientists. Come find out what researchers are working on today.


Keynote Speaker: Dr. Terry-Lynn Young, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland


Title: A clan genomics approach to understanding human disorders: The Newfoundland experience and prospects
Keynote Speakere: Dr. Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario


Title: Next-generation Sequencing technologies to study biological diversity from genes to ecosystems

This one-day event will take place at the McGill University New Residence Hall
New Residence Hall, 3625 Avenue du Parc, Montréal

Thursday, December 6th 2012

Talks and workshops on both days will be given in English.
Registration, lunch and refreshments are free.

Final Program
Thursday, December 6th 2012
08h00 Registration and breakfast
08h25 Welcome Address
Marc LePage,
président-directeur général,
Génome Québec
08h30 Keynote Speaker
A clan genomics approach to understanding human disorders: The Newfoundland experience and prospects
Terry-Lynn Young, Ph.D.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
09h15 TBD
Stéphanie Roumy, Illumina
09h30 Ion Proton - Single day workflows enabling an array of applications; from transcriptome profiling and characterization to whole genome sequencing.
Alexander Robertson, Life Technologies
09h45 Improving fruit and wine: how genomics can help
Sean Myles, Ph.D.
Dalhousie University, Halifax
10h15 Coffee Break (Pacific Biosciences & Sequenom)
10h35 Axiom: Enabling the next wave of genotyping: Biobanks, INDELS and rare variants
Alex Forrest-Hay, Affymetrix
10h50 Single cell genomics using nano-fluidics
Dan Clutter, Fluidigm
11h05 New Developments Next-Generation Sequencing
Ken Dewar, Ph.D.
McGill University, Montréal
11h35 Lunch
13h15 Keynote Speaker
Next-generation Sequencing technologies to study biological diversity from genes to ecosystems
Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Ph.D.
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, Guelph
14h00 TBD
Willem Haagmans, Roche
14h15 FORGE Canada - A National Initiative to Characterize Rare Genetic Disorders
Mark Samuels, Ph.D.
Université de Montréal, Montréal
14h45 Closing remarks
Next-Generation sequencing analysis - December 7th

Speaker: Guillaume Bourque, Ph.D.
Director of Bioinformatics
McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre

This event will take place on the Campus of McGill University
Leacock Building Room 232, 855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest Montreal

Friday, December 7th 2012 - 9h00-10h00

Talk and workshops will be given in English.
Registration, lunch and refreshments are free.

These Workshops are intended for scientists interested in the processing and the interpretation of high-throughput "omics" data. The objective is to familiarize people with methods and tools to analyze and integrate large-scale data sets.

The hands-on workshops that will be given are:

Workshops - December 7th

Please note that registration is free but all cancellation must be done at least 48 hours before the event. Any cancellation done beyond this delay or the participant absence to the event will results in a $50 fee charged to the participant's Principal Investigator.

Workshop Next-generation sequencing data (whole genome/exome sequencing) - FULL


Talk topics:
  • Read trimming
  • Aligning the reads to the genome reference
  • Marking duplicates
  • Compute metrics and generating coverage track
  • Single Nucleotide Variant calling
  • Structural variant calling
  • Copy number variant calling

Location: McGill University Trottier Building
Date: December 7th 2012
Time: 10h30 to 12h30
>> Presentation Material

Workshop Next-generation sequencing data (RNA-Seq, Methyl-Seq, ChIP-Seq) - FULL

This workshop is geared towards biologists or bioinformaticians working with next generation sequencing datasets. Minimal unix knowledge is recommended, but step by step computational procedures will be performed live with support. Pipelines will be running on the Mammouth2 compute canada cluster with scaled down datasets using temporary accounts.

Talk topics:
  • RNA-Seq - De novo isoform discovery and differential transcript expression analysis
  • Methylation-Seq - Reduced region bisulfite sequencing and differential methylation region analysis
  • ChIP-Seq - Narrow (transcription factor) vs wide (histone marks) peak calling. Peak statistics, annotation and motif discovery.

Location: McGill University Trottier Building
Date: December 7th 2012
Time: 10h30 to 12h30
>> Presentation Material
For more information

Please contact:

Frédérick Robidoux
frobidoux@genomequebec.com
Tel: 514 398-7211 #3
Fax: 514 398-1790

 

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