Agenda

Posted on May 30, 2012

Time Session Speaker
Monday October 22
11:30 - 12:30 Registration and Lunch (provided)
12:30 - 12:45 Introduction and Greetings Neil Winegarden (OCI Genomics Centre)
12:45-13:00 FGED Overview John Quackenbush (Dana Farber)
Presentations by Large Organisations and Initiatives
13:00 - 13:20 The OICR and the International Cancer Genome Consortium Project Francis Ouellette (OICR)
13:25 - 13:45 The DOE Knowledge Base Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory; US Dept of Energy)
13:50 - 14:10 The Centre for Applied Genomics Richard Wintle (SickKids Hospital)
14:15 - 14:35 SEQ-Answers Joann Delenick (Intralogics/Patent Vision)
14:40 - 15:00 Break
Challenges for Smaller Groupss
15:05 - 15:25 The Donnely Centre Corey Nislow (University of Toronto)
15:30 - 15:50 The OCI Genomics Centre Carl Virtanen (OCIGC)
15:55 - 16:15 London Regional Genomics Centre John Robinson and David Carter (LRGC)
16:20-16:40 Open Slot TBD
16:45 - 17:00 Wrap up and departure for Day 1
Tuesday October 23
7:30 - 10:25 FGED Board Meeting Open to all registrants
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Application Specific Issues
10:45 - 11:05 Storing and Analyzing Patient Genomes and Phenotypes at the FORGE National Data Centre Mike Brudno (University of Toronto/Sick Kids)
11:10 - 11:30 RNA-Seq Alvis Brazma (European Bioinformatics Institute)
11:35 - 11:55 ChIP-Seq Mathieu Lupien (Ontario Cancer Institute)
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch
Software Tools
12:30 - 12:50 Software/Databases for Pathway and Network Analysis Gary Bader (University of Toronto)
12:55 - 13:15 Integrative Genomics Tools Michael Reich (Broad Institute)
13:20 - 13:40 Regulome Explorer Michael Miller (Institute for Systems Biology)
13:45 - 14:05 Database of Genomic Variants Jeff MacDonald (SickKids)
14:10 - 14:25 Break
Applied Genomics
14:30 - 14:50 Clinical Genomics John Quackenbush (Dana Farber)
14:55 - 15:15 Infectious Disease Chris Stoeckert (Penn Center for Bioinformatics)
15:20 - 15:40 Summary Neil Winegarden (OCI Genomics Centre)
15:45 - 16:45 Mediated Discussion on Data Standards and Data Sharing
16:45 Thank-yous and Departures