VIB and BGI organize joint genomics meeting, Feb. 15, 2012, Belgium
Both organizations are already collaborating on several projects, including the mapping of the genomes of more than 1,000 species of gut bacteria, compiled from 577 billion base pairs of sequence data. The leading scientific journal Science selected this work as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2011. Large-scale genome sequencing is becoming ever more important in life sciences, healthcare and agricultural research.
Henry Yang, Executive Managemer of BGI, will start the meeting with an overview and introduction to BGI's sequencing and computing infrastructure. Other talks, by BGI and VIB scientists, will tackle large-scale analysis of human genomes, metagenomics and microbiology, the genomics of model organisms and the computational analysis of the data generated in genomics experiments.
Attending the meeting is free, but registration is obligatory.
BGI (http://en.genomics.cn), the world's premier genomics sequencing company and VIB (www.vib.be), a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, announce a joint genomics meeting, taking place on February 15, 2012. The meeting will feature several talks on BGI's sequencing and computing infrastructure as well as VIB research in human, animal and microbial genomics and collaborative VIB-BGI projects. Both organizations are already collaborating on several projects, including the mapping of the genomes of more than 1,000 species of gut bacteria, compiled from 577 billion base pairs of sequence data. The leading scientific journal Science selected this work as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2011. Large-scale genome sequencing is becoming ever more important in life sciences, healthcare and agricultural research.
Henry Yang, Executive Managemer of BGI, will start the meeting with an overview and introduction to BGI's sequencing and computing infrastructure. Other talks, by BGI and VIB scientists, will tackle large-scale analysis of human genomes, metagenomics and microbiology, the genomics of model organisms and the computational analysis of the data generated in genomics experiments.
Attending the meeting is free, but registration is obligatory
Register at http://www.vib.be/vib-bgi-genomics
Detailed program
Date: 15 February 2012, 09.00-18.00 CET
Location: Provinciehuis Leuven (Route description pdf)
Program
09.00 – 09.30
Registration/coffee
09.30 - 10.30
Henry Yang, Executive Managemer of BGI
Overview and introduction to BGI's sequencing and computing infrastructure
Session 1: Large scale analysis of human genomes
10.30 – 10.50
Stein Aerts, Center for Human Genetics, K.U.Leuven
Exome sequencing in leukemia
10.50 – 11.10
Adrian Liston, VIB Autoimmune Genetics Laboratory, K.U.Leuven
Exome sequencing in immune-phenotype patients
11.10 – 11 30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.00
Lars Bolund, Department of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, Denmark and BGI Europe
BGI and full human genome/exome sequencing in the Danish population
12.00 – 12.30 Jiang Hui, BGI scientist/Principal investigator
Canceromics and target region sequencing
12.30 - 13.30
Lunch
Session 2: Metagenomics and microbiology
13.30 – 13.50
Jeroen Raes, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sequencing the human gut
13.50 – 14.20
Ni Peixiang, Director of BGI Microbial department
Metagenomics at BGI
14.20 – 14.40
Kevin Verstrepen, VIB Laboratory of Systems Biology, KU Leuven
Yeast de novo sequencing
14.40 – 15.00
Jean-Paul Meijnen, VIB Department of Molecular Microbiology, KU Leuven
Yeast bulked segregant analysis
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break
Session 3: Model-organism genomics and computational analysis
15.30- 16.00
Zhang Guojie, BGI scientist/Principal investigator
Genomics of non-model organisms at BGI
16.00 – 16.30
Du Yutao, BGI scientist/Principal investigator
Genomics of Model Organisms at BGI
16.30 – 17.00
Fang Lin, Head of BGI cloud computing department
Cloud Computational platform at BGI
17.00 - 17.30
Li Ning, CEO of BGI Europe
BGI and Genomics in Europe
17.30 –18.00
Reception and networking
Provided by VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)
