_meeting NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING
APPLICATIONS IN GENETIC AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
_Lisboa, 5th November 2012
_Recent years have witnessed the emergence of new sequencing technologies that are
revolutionizing the approach to public health problems. These “next-generation”
technologies greatly facilitate and speed the identification of new mutations in
undiagnosed genetic diseases and the characterization of microbial agents at high risk to
public health. Moreover, because of the constantly decreasing costs of genome
sequencing, next-generation technologies will likely become in the near future an
integral part of the diagnostic setting of genetic and infectious diseases. This meeting will
present work carried out by various groups in the diagnosis and research of human
diseases as well as novel developments in sequencing platforms and their applications in
public health.
_information
_venue:
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, I.P. - INSA
Avenida Padre Cruz, 1649-016 Lisboa, Portugal
_registration: http://www.insa.pt
Registration fee €80,00 (includes meeting documentation, coffee-breaks and lunch)
_contacts:
email: [email protected]
Tel.: +351 217 508 132
_organizing committee
_Luís Vieira, Sónia Pedro, Ana Cardoso, Catarina Silva, Paulo Gonçalves
INSA, Lisboa
_meeting NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING
APPLICATIONS IN GENETIC AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
_Lisboa, 5th November 2012
_programme
08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome Message
José Pereira Miguel (President of INSA)
Luís Vieira (Organizing Committee)
_opening session
09:10 - Chair: Helena Rebelo de Andrade (INSA, Lisboa)
An overview of large scale genome and
transcriptome analysis: from DNA microarrays to
next-generation technologies
Margarida Gama Carvalho (University of Lisboa)
Targeted next-generation sequencing: technical
aspects and applications in medical research
Wim Dorlijn (Agilent Technologies, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
_Updates in Next-Generation
Sequencing Platforms and Applications
14:30 - Chair: Sónia Pedro (INSA, Lisboa)
illumina
Caroline Thureau (France)
Roche
Daniela Pinto (Portugal)
Life Technologies
João Caldeira (Portugal)
10:10 Coffee-break
15:40 Coffee-break
_Genetic Disorders
_Infectious Diseases
10:30 - Chairs: Paula Gameiro (IPOFG, Lisboa)
João Gonçalves (INSA, Lisboa)
16:00 - Chairs: Henrique Silveira (IHMT, Lisboa)
João Paulo Gomes (INSA, Lisboa)
Novel molecular insights into acute myeloid
leukemia using amplicon next-generation deepsequencing
Vera Grossmann (MLL Münchner Leukämielabor GmbH,
München, Germany)
Non-optical massive parallel DNA sequencing:
towards the diagnostic setting
José Carlos Machado (IPATIMUP, Porto)
Exome sequencing of Portuguese patients with
familial hypercholesterolaemia
Mafalda Bourbon (INSA, Lisboa)
12:00 - Chair: Peter Jordan (INSA, Lisboa)
Next-generation sequencing in aging research:
emerging applications and pitfalls
Genomic variations among clinical isolates of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pedro Santos (University of Minho, Braga)
Next-generation sequencing for bacterial
molecular epidemiology studies: promises and
challenges
João Carriço (IMM, Lisboa)
Small non-coding RNAs: a possible role in HIV
infection
Andreia J. Amaral (University of Lisboa)
17:15 End of the meeting
[This programme is subject to change without prior notice]
João Pedro de Magalhães (Institute of Integrative Biology,
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Next-generation sequencing technologies applied to
microRNA discovery and profiling
Ana Raquel Soares (University of Aveiro)
13:00 Lunch
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