| Monday, September 21, 2009 | ||
| 07:00:00 | Conference Registration and Morning Coffee | |
| 07:05:00 | PLENARY KEYNOTE SESSION – SEQUENCING: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE | |
| 08:15:00 | Chairperson’s Remarks | |
| 08:25:00 | Moore’s Law and Sequencing: Where Are We Now, Where Will it Lead, and How Will We Get There? | Jonathan Rothberg |
| 09:05:00 | Diagnostic Applications of Next-Generation Sequencing: High-Throughput, High Resolution HLA Typing | Henry Erlich |
| 09:45:00 | Networking Coffee Break | |
| 10:15:00 | So My Genome Costs Less Than My Bike: What’s the Big Deal? | Robert Cook-Deegan |
| 10:55:00 | The Future of NGS from a Medical Practice Perspective | Dietrich Stephan |
| 11:35:00 | Interactive Panel Discussion with Keynote Speakers | |
| 12:00:00 | Close of Session | |
| 12:15:00 | Luncheon Technology Workshop (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Lunch on Your Own | |
| 12:20:00 | SEQUENCING TECH EXPO | |
| 14:00:00 | Chairperson’s Remarks | Kevin Davies |
| 14:05:00 | Sponsored Seminars:Hosted by Roche | |
| 14:10:00 | Sequencing the Whole Human Exome with the 454 GS FLX: From Mendelian Disease to Cancer Studies Roche/454 | Timothy Harkins |
| 14:35:00 | SOLiD™ 3 System – The Ultra High Throughput Sequencing System Applied Biosystems | Michael D. Rhodes |
| 15:05:00 | Illumina | |
| 15:35:00 | Networking Refreshment Break | |
| 16:00:00 | Helicos Helicos | |
| 16:30:00 | Platform Provider (Opportunity Available) | |
| 17:00:00 | Panel Discussion with Platform Providers | Kevin Davies |
| 17:30:00 | Welcoming Reception and Grand Opening of Exhibit Hall | |
| 19:00:00 | Close of Day | |
| Tuesday, September 22, 2009 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast Presentation (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) | |
| 08:15:00 | Successful Sequencing Discussion Groups | |
| 08:50:00 | KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS | |
| 09:00:00 | Chairperson’s Remarks | |
| 09:10:00 | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 1 | John Quackenbush |
| 09:50:00 | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 2 | Eric E. Schadt |
| 10:30:00 | Networking Coffee Break, Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 10:35:00 | DATA GENERATION AND BEYOND | |
| 11:15:00 | Beyond Data Generation: Challenges Inherent in Designing and Analyzing Experiments Using Next-Generation Sequencing | Ghia Euskirchen |
| 11:45:00 | Epigenomic Analysis Using Massively-Parallel Sequencing | Masako Suzuki |
| 12:15:00 | Close of Session | |
| 12:30:00 | Luncheon Technology Workshop (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Lunch on Your Own | |
| 12:35:00 | I’ve Bought my Sequencer – Now What the Heck Do I Do with the Data? | |
| 13:55:00 | Chairperson’s Remarks | |
| 14:00:00 | Software Solution Co-Presentation | Tom Schwei |
| 14:30:00 | Software Solution Co-Presentation Measuring the Level of Individual Transcripts Using mRNA-seq Within Partek Genomics Suite | Michael Lelivelt |
| 15:00:00 | Software Solution Co-Presentation Comprehensive Methods for Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis in Epigenetics | Martin Seifert |
| 15:30:00 | Networking Refreshment Break, Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 16:00:00 | Software Solution Co-Presentation (Opportunity Available) | |
| 16:30:00 | Software Solution Co-Presentation (Opportunity Available) | |
| 17:00:00 | Close of Day | |
| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | ||
| 07:30:00 | Breakfast Presentation Sponsored by JMP Software | |
| 07:35:00 | DATA INTEGRATION LEADS TO PERSONALIZED MEDICINE | |
| 08:15:00 | Chairperson’s Remarks | |
| 08:20:00 | Sequencing in the Study of Psychiatric Diseases | Chunyu Liu |
| 08:50:00 | The Path to Personalized Cancer Treatment Utilizing the Molecular Gateway | Jae K. Lee |
| 09:20:00 | Information-Theoretic Identification and Modeling of Gene-Gene, Environment-Environment and Gene-Environment Interactions | Murali Ramanathan |
| 09:50:00 | Statistical Model for Whole Genome Sequencing and its Application to Minimally Invasive Diagnosis of Fetal Genetic Disease | David G. Peters |
| 10:20:00 | Technology Spotlight (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) | |
| 10:35:00 | Networking Coffee Break, Exhibit & Poster Viewing | |
| 11:15:00 | A Geometric Approach For Classification And Comparison Of Structural Variants | Ben Raphael |
| 11:45:00 | Exploring the Human Microbiome with Next-Generation Sequencing | Rob Knight |
| 12:15:00 | Luncheon Presentation (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Lunch on Your Own | |
| 12:25:00 | CASE STUDIES (combined session) | |
| 14:00:00 | Chairperson’s Remarks | |
| 14:05:00 | Observations of the Most Abundant and Active Genes in the Biosphere—The Ecology of Viral Genes | K. Eric Wommack |
| 14:45:00 | Transcriptome-Guided Characterization of Genomic Alterations | Qi Zhao |
| 15:15:00 | Networking Refreshment Break and Final Exhibit and Poster Viewing | |
| 15:45:00 | Detecting Signatures of Domestication in the Chicken Genome | Michael Zody |
| 16:15:00 | A Core Gut Microbiome in Obese and Lean Twins | Rob Knight |
| 17:00:00 | Close of Meeting | |
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