Please join us for the second annual Conference in Quantitative Genomics on September 23-25, 2008. The annual conference is hosted by the Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard School of Public Health, and is supported with a grant from the NCI and NHLBI.* The conference is co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the Biostatistics Program of Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and Harvard Medical School, as well as corporate sponsors, Applied Biosystems, Illumina Inc, Roche, and Helicos BioSciences Corporation.
The goal of the 2008 conference, "Emerging Quantitative Issues in Parallel Sequencing (EQuIP-Seq)" is to examine the interplay between emerging sequencing technologies, basic and population sciences, and data analysis methods. It seeks to engage geneticists, computational biologists, and statisticians, in discussions of technology, data, analysis and applications of massively parallel sequencing. We hope the conference will spur discussions and future developments in the field and generate a white-paper report.
The conference will focus on three important areas and aims at in-depth discussions of major quantitative issues in these three areas:
- Genomic and meta-genomic sequencing
- Phenotypes and Populations
- Transcriptome and transcription regulation
The conference consists of keynote and session presentations, along with panel discussions, roundtable discussions, and a technology forum.
For program, registration, and other information, please follow the links in the menu at left.
For scientific matters on the conference, please email the conference co-chairs Shirley Liu and Fritz Roth.
For logistic matters on the conference, please contact the conference coordinators:
Artemis Moore or at (617) 432-1088
Shaina Andelman or at (617) 432-7449
*Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by a Grant from the National Cancer Institute. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.