AGTA conference
’Omics for all
Genomic technology conference The AGTA conference, Australia’s foremost genomic technology conference, is an essential event for researchers and industry representatives who work with genomic technologies in a variety of contexts including platform development, medical genomics, functional genomics, non-model systems, epigenomics and plant genomics.
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The session organisers have invited scientists at the cutting edge of integrative -omics research to present keynote lectures at the conference who will cover topics such as crowdfunded genomics, space missions, cancer, brain development, undiagnosed genetic disorders and the metagenomics of New Keynote speakers include:
• Associate Professor Beth Shapiro — University of California Santa Cruz, USA • Associate Professor Christopher Mason —
he conference also offers an important
to new and evolving technologies, and to hear
opportunity for computational biologists,
how those technologies are being applied to
bioinformaticians and data visualisation
genomics research.
Cornell University, USA • Associate Professor Huaijun Zhou — University of California, USA
specialists to interact with technologists and
AGTA/NZ NGS 2016 will showcase dynamic
biologists. This unique mix is one of the reasons
cross-discipline-omics research and uniquely
that the Australian genomics community has
allow genomics and bioinformatics researchers,
a dynamic cross-disciplinary and innovative
as well as industry, to interact over a wide range
approach to genomic analysis, and is at the
of topics; these will include technologies focused
forefront of analysis tools for new types of
on genome regulation: biology, phenotype
‘omics’ data.
and utility, genomics and agriculture, genome
AGTA/NZ NGS 2016 will attract staff and
diversity and evolution, human disease and
clients from all genomics core service providers
clinical genomics, plant genomics, microbial
in the region, and beyond, eager to be exposed
and single cell genomics and transcriptomics.
• Associate Professor Lance Miller — Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA • Dr Richard Edward Green — University of California Santa Cruz, USA • Professor Gregory Gibson — Georgia Institute of Technology, USA • Professor Piero Carninci — RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Japan
Preconference workshops Two preconference workshops will be held on Sunday, 9 October: • Bisulfite sequencing: Genomewide methylation sequencing • Metagenomics: Understanding microbial communities with next-generation sequencing Delegates can register to attend these workshops when they register to attend the conference.
What: 16th annual conference of the Australasian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) and the 8th Annual New Zealand Next Generation Sequencing Conference (NZ NGS) When: 9–12 October 2016 Where: Pullman Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand Registration: www.agtaconference.org/registration More information: www.agtaconference.org
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