Utilization of New DNA Sequencing Technologies: An AGBT Tutorial Workshop

Workshop Organizers:
Colin Collins (UCSF), George Grills (Cornell University), and Michael Zody (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)

Location:
Island Ballroom

Agenda:

1:30 p.m. – 1:35 p.m.

Opening Remarks
Michael Zody, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

1:35 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Overview of New Sequencing Technologies
Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine and Gabor Marth, Boston College

2:15 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.

Evaluation, Validation, and Scale-Up of Next Generation Sequencing Platforms
Patrick Cahill, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

2:35 p.m. – 2:55 p.m.

Identification of Acquired Structural Rearrangements in Cancer Genomes using Paired-End Sequencing on the Illumina Genome Analyzer
Phil Stephens, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

2:55 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Coffee break
(Sponsored by Roche Applied Sciences)

3:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.

Targeting Specific Regions of the Genome for Directed Re-Sequencing
Emily Hodges, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

3:35 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

The Next Generation of DNA Sequencing Core Facilities
Agnes Viale, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

3:55 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Transcriptome Sequencing using the Roche 454 GS-FLX
Roderick Jensen, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

Summary Panel Discussion
Moderator: Richard Gibbs, Baylor College of Medicine