Concurrent Session: Advances in Genomic Technologies

Chair:
Michael Metzker, Baylor College of Medicine

Location:
Island Ballroom

Agenda:

7:00 p.m. – 7:20 p.m.

Thomas Albert, Roche NimbleGen, Inc.           
Development of an Optimized Oligonucleotide Microarray for Capturing 150,000 Human Exons for High Throughput Sequencing

7:20 p.m. – 7:40 p.m. 

David Bentley, Illumina, Inc.
Detecting Human Genetic Variation using High-Throughput Paired End Sequencing

7:40 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 

William Efcavitch, Helicos BioSciences, Corp.
The HeliScope™ Single Molecule Sequencer: An Integrated Genetic Analyzer for True Single Molecule Sequencing™

8:00 p.m. – 8:20 p.m.

Andre Marziali, University of British Columbia
A SCODA-Based Instrument for Nucleic Acid Extraction from Challenging Samples

8:20 p.m. – 8:40 p.m.   

Carsten Russ, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard           
Capturing Exons with Synthetic Oligonucleotide Baits for Next-Generation Sequencing

8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 

Hongcang Gu, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Analysis Along a Mouse Cell Lineage using Solexa Bisulfite Sequencing