Plenary Session: Cancer Genomics and Technology

Chair:
Andre Marziali, University of British Columbia

Location:
Island Ballroom

Agenda:

9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.

Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Trent, Translational Genomics Research Institute
Genomic Approaches for Novel Molecular Target Identification and Translation

9:40 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

Gad Getz, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard                       
Copy Number Analysis of Cancer Samples using Solexa

10:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.

Carl Hansen, University of British Columbia
High-Density Microfluidic qPCR Applied to Profiling miRNA in Single Cells

10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 

Coffee Break – Capri Ballroom
(Sponsored by Roche Applied Science)

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Yijun Ruan, Genome Institute of Singapore
Whole Genome Long Range Chromatin Interaction Analysis using Paired End diTag Sequencing (ChIA-PET)

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

David Craig, Translational Genomics Research Institute
Multiplexed Sequencing using Barcoded Sequences on Illumina 1G