THE NGS DAY 2011 – The First Unimore Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing

Location: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia – Aula Congressi Comparto S. Geminiano – via San Geminiano, 3 - Modena, Italy
Date: February 22 2011
Link: http://www.ngsday2011.unimore.it

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies enable high-throughput sequencing for a multitude of applications, including de novo sequencing, re-sequencing of (subsets of) genomic DNA, whole transcriptome sequencing, tag-based transcript sequencing, and metagenomics sequencing. There has been active research in these and other NGS applications resulting in a rapidly developing field. While the second-generation technologies are being further improved, third-generation sequencing is already becoming available and utilized by pioneer researchers. However, because of the rapid developments, many scientists, some just considering the use of NGS technology, have a need for information and sharing of experiences. Furthermore, recent results show applications emerging in important fields including characterization of diseases, gene therapy, epigenomics, virology and agronomy.

THE NGS DAY 2011 is organized by:

CGR UniMORE – Center for Genome Research – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Program:

09:30 - Registrazione - Open Bar

10:00 - Benvenuto

Enrico Tagliafico (Direttore del Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Genomiche UniMORE)

Aldo Tomasi (Magnifico Rettore UniMORE)

Sergio Ferrari (Preside della Facoltà di Bioscienze e Biotecnologie UniMORE)

Gabriella Aggazzotti (Preside della Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia UniMORE)

Stefano Cencetti (Direttore Generale dell’Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico di Mo)

Gian Fedele Ferrari (Presidente della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Carpi)

Umberto Torelli (Presidente di AIL Modena ONLUS)

Next Generation Sequencing applications in biomedicine

Chairman: Enrico Tagliafico (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Genomiche, UniMORE)

10:30 - NGS Technology for Leukemia Charcterization

Vera Grossmann (MLL Munich Leukemia Laboratory, München, Germany)

11:00 - NGS for characterization of MODY Diabetes

Sabrina Rita Giglio (Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica U.O. Genetica Medica Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria "A.Meyer" Firenze)

11:30 - Serum profiling by high resolution analysis of open reading frames epitomes

Gianluca De Bellis (Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche del Consiglio Nazionale delle Rircerche, Milano)

12:00 - NGS for high definition mapping of retroviral integration sites in the human genome

Fulvio Mavilio (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Genomiche UniMORE)

12:30 - NGS for whole genome resequencing

Giorgio Valle (Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova)

13:00 – Lunch

Next Generation Sequencing applications in epigenomics, virology and agronomy

Chairman: Nicola Pecchioni (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Genomiche UniMORE)

14:30 - NGS application for epigenomics

Francesco Ferrari (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA)

15:00 - Applications of NGS to virology: quantitative deep sequencing of HIV-1 and HBV reveals hidden lineages and shifts of viral population along natural history and antiviral treatment

 Maria Rosaria Capobianchi (I.N.M.I. "L. Spallanzani" I.R.C.C.S. Roma)

15:30 - The impact of NGS technology on sequencing the 5.1 giga base barley genome

Nils Stein (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research IPK Gatersleben, Germany) 16:00 - Dealing with a high heterozygous genome: the apple case

Riccardo Velasco (Reseach & Innovation Centre IASMA S. Michele all’Adige, Trento)

16:30 - Conclusioni