• Medical_Professionals
• Medical_students
• Nurses

NGS 2015 Glasgow, the fourth biannual UK Next Generation Sequencing Conference from Biotexcel, will take place on 22nd & 23rd April and be preceded by a one day NGS Bioinformatics Workshop on 21st April.  This event comes in partnership with the NHS West of Scotland Genetics Service and the University of Glasgow’s Polyomics research facility and will be held in the heart of Glasgow city centre.

As with previous events we will again bring together key opinion leaders from NGS clinical diagnostic labs as well as those from research backgrounds so that our virtual ideas hub continues to flourish and act as a catalyst to help develop collaborations.  This year will see a strong focus on Bioinformatics with an entire day dedicated to a workshop that will be run at the University of Glasgow and cover the steps from raw NGS data all the way to Assembly (eg, raw data, QC, mapping of reads, visualising DNAseq and RNAseq data, understanding the workflows).

In addition to bioinformatics we will take a look at wet lab QC issues involving the variable parts of the workflows as well as the newer application areas that are being performed or trickling through to diagnostic labs.  Panel debates will allow our experts and attendees to interactively discuss many issues of interest such as the benefits of exome sequencing versus whole genome sequencing and more.

POSTER SUBMISSION:  We welcome poster presentation at our events.  If you have some material to present, please send us an abstract by 3rd April. This will be reviewed by our scientific committee and if approved you will receive a 15% discount off the registration fee.

If you would like to submit a poster, please send us an abstract using our CONTACT US FORM

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS NGS EVENT?

• All NGS users, researchers and students
• Bioinformaticians
• NHS & Private Labs, Biotech Companies, CRO’s, Service Providers

NICOLA WILLIAMS

Head of Lab, West of Scotland Genetic Services, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

DR CHRIS PONTING

MRC Functional Genomics, University of Oxford

DR OLIVER HOFMANN

Harvard School of Public Health, USA

DR STEVE ABBS

Director, East Anglian Medical Genetics Service, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

DR BHUPINDER BHULLAR

Novartis

DR NICOLA WOLSTENHOLME

European Molecular Genetics Quality Network (EMQN)

DR ERAN ELHAIK

Bioinformatics Hub, University of Sheffield

DR SARAH LEIGH BROWN

Cambridge Institute Genomics Core, Cancer Research

DR MICK WATSON

Director of ARK-Genomics, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh

RACHEL BUTLER

Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust

GBP

Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

IET GLASGOW: TEACHER BUILDING

14 St Enoch Square
Glasgow 
G1 4DB

Tel:  +44 (0)141 530 9931
www.teacherbuilding.theiet.org

The IET Teachers Building is located in the heart of Glasgow city Centre so is fully accessible by all major transport links.  St Enoch Underground station is only 2-3 minutes walk away.  Glasgow Central railway Station is just 5 minutes walk and Queens Street Station 10 minutes walk from the venue

Submission Info

We encourage dialogue and interaction amongst all participants and we welcome the presence of sponsors to highlight new technologies, services and solutions within the relevant areas.  We have many sponsoring opportunities to suit all budgets, but we can also tailor specific packages to suit your needs. Some examples of sponsorship ideas are below, but please feel free to contact us and we’ll be happy to give you more details and talk about your requirements:

• Gold Sponsor
• Silver Sponsor
• Exhibitor
• Drinks reception
• Event Documentation

For more information please contact us.

SPONSORS

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