Speaker: Marco Gerlinger, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London. The Institute of Cancer Research.
Title: Reconstructing and Predicting Cancer Evolution.

Speaker: Kaitlin Samocha, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Title: Using large reference-population call-sets to prioritize found variation in autism patients.

Speaker: Guojie Zhang, Assistant Professor. China National Genebank, BGI-Shenzhen, China. Section of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen.                                                           
Title: Bird genome 10K project, tracing the micro&macro evolutionary history of bird.

Speaker: Nuria Lopez-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Title: Analyzing thousands of tumor genomes to identify cancer drivers and their targeted therapeutic opportunities.

Speaker: Vincent Pelechano, PhD, Staff Scientist. European Molecular Biology Laboratories.
Title: Deciphering gene expression with genomics: from transcriptional complexity to ribosome dynamics.

Speaker: Menachem Fromer, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
Title: Large-scale DNA and RNA sequencing of schizophrenia cases and controls to reveal associated gene pathways and networks.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss and develop scientific plans and the related activities in iSEQ, and enjoy scientific and social interactions.
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Speaker: Bjarni J Vilhjalmsson, Bioinformatics Research Center, AU.
Title: Predicting Disease Risk from Whole Genome Data.

Speaker: Kristian Andersen, Harvard University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Title: Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak.

Speaker: Jan Gorodkin, PhD, Professor, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, IKVH.
Title: Bioinformatic approaches to study high-throughput data in novel ways.

Speaker: Gill Bejerano, Associate Professor, Stanford University.
Title: Some basic principles of human gene regulation.

Speaker: Tune H. Pers, PhD, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
Title: Towards schizophrenia genes and pathways based on hypothesis-free analysis of GWAS data.

Speaker: Henrik Kaessmann, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Title: The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes.

Speaker: Dr. Wei Chen, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine.
Title: De Novo Full-Length Transcriptome Analysis by a Hybrid Sequencing Approach.

Speaker: Jim Crowley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Title: Pervasive Allelic Imbalance Revealed by Allele-Specific Gene Expression in Highly Divergent Mouse Crosses.

Speaker: Professor Chris Ponting, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford.
Title: A real-ome or an imagin-ome? Are lncRNAs functional?

Speaker: Jakob Hedegaard, Department of Molecular Medicine (MOMA), Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Aarhus University Hospital.
Title: Development of methods for NGS based RNA-Seq and DNA-Seq on FFPE materials.

Speaker: Anders Albrechtsen, Department of Biology, Bioinformatics, University of Copenhagen.
Title: Genome wide association studies in small and highly admixed populations.

Speakere: Professor Anders Børglum, Associate Professor Jane H. Christensen, Psychiatrist, PhD Fellow Anto Rajkumar, Institute of Biomedicine, Aarhus University.
Title: The BRD1 gene and interactome in psychiatric disorders.

Opening ceremony of the new Aarhus University interdisciplinary center iSEQ, Centre for Integrative Sequencing. The program features four international distinguished speakers.
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