Please note that the schedule may still change.
Saturday
8:30 ***Breakfast, onsite
registration***
9:00 Ron Davis, Director, Stanford Genome Technology Center,
New
Technology for Yeast in Clinical Medicine
10:00 Michael Metzker, Baylor College of Medicine,
Development of a Novel DNA Sequencing Technology
10:30 Stevan Jovanovich, President/CEO Microchip Biotechnologies,
Inc,
Harnessing the Power of Nanofluidics: Development of the NanoBioProcessorTM Platform for DNA Sequencing
11:00 ***Break***
11:10 Arif Anwar, Vice President, Synamatix,
Applications of a Novel Structured Network Database Platform in High-throughput Genomics
11:40 Christie Robertson, Geospiza Inc,
Guiding Assembly with
Optical Mapping
12:00 Andreas Sundquist, Stanford University,
Short Read Assembly
12:20 ***Lunch***
1:30 Mihai Pop, TIGR,
A Modular Framework for Developing Assembly Algorithms
2:00 Paul Havlak, Baylor College of Medicine
The Atlas System and Modular Aspects of Genome Assembly
2:30 Manfred Grabherr,
Strategies to Assemble Repetitive Regions in Genomes
3:00 Granger Sutton, Venter Institute,
A Tool for Analyzing Mate Pairs in Assemblies (TAMPA)
3:30 ***Coffee Break***
3:50 Jared Roach, Institute for Systems Biology,
Optimization of Fragment Length in Pairwise End Sequencing
4:20 Michael Roberts, James Yorke, University of Maryland,
Trimming Vector from Reads
4:40 Suzanne Sindi, James Yorke, University of Maryland,
Structure of Repeat Strings in a genome
5:00 Cevat Ustun, University of Maryland,
Finding
Errors in Genome Assemblies
5:20 ***End of first day***
Sunday
8:30 ***Breakfast***
9:00 Chuck Hasel, Genome Canada,
Supporting Research From the Laboratory to the Marketplace
9:30 Kent Lohman, 454,
A novel Picoliter-Scale Technology for Genome-Scale Sequencing
10:00 Tim Harris, Helicos BioSciences Corporation,
Single Molecule Sequencing by Synthesis
10:30
Mostafa Ronaghi, Stanford Genome Technology Center,
Enabling Genome Sequencing at Any Laboratory
11:00 ***Break***
11:15 Aaron Halpern, Venter Institute,
Assembling Environmental Shotgun Sequences
11:45 Aleks Milosavljevic, Baylor College of Medicine,
Pooled
Genomic Indexing and Comparative Assembly of Rhesus Macaque
12:15 ***Lunch***
1:30 Andre Marziali, University of British Columbia,
Nanopore-Based Single Molecule Sequence Detection
2:00 Stephen Turner, CTO, Nanofluidics Inc,
Enabling the $1,000 Genome
2:30 Baback Gharizadeh, Stanford Genome Technology Center,
Multiples one-base DNA Sequencing for Multiple Pathogen Typing by Pyrosequencing
2:50 ***Coffee Break***
3:20 Sreedevi Thiyagarajan, Stanford Genome Technology
Center,
Viral Probe Mining through Heuristics
3:40 Aaron Tenney, Washington University,
Basecalling for Traces
Derived from Multiple Templates
4:00 Helmy Eltoukhy, Stanford Genome Technology Center,
An MLSD Algorithm for Base-calling in Pyrosequencing
4:20 Yipin Zhan, University of Massachusetts,
Model-P: A basecalling method for resequencing microarrays of diploid samples
4:40 ***End of second day***