VIB and BGI are organising a genomics meeting on 15 Feb 2012 in Leuven, Belgium. Executives and investigators from both institutions will share their expertise on large scale genomics and computational analysis.

Preliminary Program

​09.00 – 09.30 ​Registration/coffee ​

09.30 – 10.30 ​Henry Yang, Wang Jian, and Wang Jun, Executive Management of BGI
Overview and introduction to BGI’s sequencing and computing infrastructure​​

Session 1: Large scale analysis of human genomes

10.30 – 10.50 Stein Aerts, Center for Human Genetics, K.U.Leuven
Exome sequencing in leukemia

10.50 – 11.10 Adrian Liston, VIB Autoimmune Genetics Laboratory, K.U.Leuven
Exome sequencing in immune-phenotype patients​

11.10 – 11 30 Coffee break​

11.30 – 12.00 Lars Bolund, Department of Human Genetics, University of Aarhus, Denmark and BGI Europe
BGI and full human genome/exome sequencing in the Danish population

12.00 – 12.30 Jiang Hui, BGI scientist/Principal investigator
Canceromics and target region sequencing

​12.30 – 13.30​ Lunch​

Session 2: Metagenomics and microbiology​

13.30 – 13.50 Jeroen Raes, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sequencing the human gut​

13.50 – 14.20 ​Ni Peixiang, Director of BGI Microbial department
Metagenomics at BGI​

14.20 – 14.40 Kevin Verstrepen, VIB Laboratory of Systems Biology, KU Leuven
Yeast de novo sequencing​

14.40 – 15.00 ​Jean-Paul Meijnen, VIB Department of Molecular Microbiology, KU Leuven
Yeast bulked segregant analysis ​

15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break ​

Session 3: Model-organism genomics and computational analysis

15.30- 16.00 ​Zhang Guojie, BGI scientist/Principal investigator
Genomics of non-model organisms at BGI

16.00 – 16.30 ​Du Yutao, BGI scientist/Principal investigator
Genomics of Model Organisms at BGI​

16.30 – 17.00 ​Fang Lin, Head of BGI cloud computing department
Cloud Computational platform at BGI​

17.00 – 17.30​ Li Ning, CEO of BGI Europe
BGI and Genomics in Europe​

17.30 –18.00 Reception and networking

Meer info en registreren: website VIB