Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing

An Introduction to the issues of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is planned on 28th and 29th May 2010.


The topics are:
Speakers and corresponding talks:
1. Basics: Technology and Biology
Michael L. Metzker - Next generation technologies - Basics and applications (pdf) (talk-slides)
2. The data: Preprocessing and quality control
Laura Clarke - 1000 Genomes, a large data problem:
Ensuring data quality and consistency (pdf) (talk-slides)
 
M. Gonzalo Claros - SeqTrim: Sequence pre-processing
in next-generation sequencing era (pdf) (talk-slides)
 
3. The data: Statistical analyses
Suzanne Leal - Study designs for the analysis of
complex traits and testing for rare variants associations:
Application to the analysis of sequence data (pdf)
 
(talk-slides)
 
Bo Madsen - The Weighted-Sum Method:
Identifying rare disease-associated mutations (pdf)  (talk-slides)
 
Eleftheria Zeggini - Rare variant analysis in large-scale association and
sequencing studies (pdf) 
(talk-slides)
4. Applications
Gerd Pluschke - the emerging pathogen mycrobacterium uclerans: reductive evolution and clonal complexes (pdf) (talk-slides)
 
Ekkehard Schütz - NGS as tool for discovery disease related differences in circulating nucleicacids (CNA) (pdf)  (talk-slides)

Here you can find a detailed schedule of the NGS-Workshop programme.
  
 
Social Programme
On Friday afternoon there will be a guided tour through the beautiful Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
Afterwards, we will meet for dinner at the traditional restaurant “Kartoffelkeller”.
 
 
Location
Innovations Zentrum Lübeck
Breite Straße 6-8
23552 Lübeck
www.iz-luebeck.de
 
 
Registration
Registration has already been closed on the 12th of April 2010. Participants get detailed information until 16th April
2010. If you have any questions please send an e-Mail to Carmen Dering at carmen.dering@imbs.uni-luebeck.de.
 
 
Fees
There is no registration fee for the workshop. Participation in the social programme will be
charged separately.
 
 
 
Organising Committee
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Ziegler
Dr. rer. hum. biol. Claudia Hemmelmann
Maren Vens, M. Sc.
Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Math. Carmen Dering
 
 
Resumed information you can also find in the flyer