Keynote Speakers

George Church         Professor of Genetics
                                    Harvard Medical School 
                                    Director of the Center for Computational Genetics
                                    (confirmed)

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Steve Elledge            Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics
                                     Harvard Medical School 
                                     Howard Hughes Investigator
                                     Member, National Academy of Sciences 
                                     (confirmed)

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George Weinstock    Professor of Genetics
                                     Associate Director, Genome Sequencing Center    
                                     Washington University, St. Louis
                                     (confirmed)

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Wing Wong                Professor of Statistics and of Health Research and Policy
                                     Stanford University 
                                     (confirmed)

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Conference Speakers

Serafim Batzoglou  Assistant Professor of Computer Science
                          Stanford University
                          (confirmed)

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Brad Bernstein      Assistant Professor, Pathology
                          Harvard Medical School and 
                          Massachusetts General Hospital
                          Associate Member at the Broad Institute 
                          (confirmed)

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Chris Burge          Associate Professor of Biology
                          MIT
                          (confirmed)

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Elaine Mardis        Associate Professor, Genetics and Molecular Microbiology 
                          Washington University in St. Louis  
                          (confirmed)

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Fritz Roth             Associate Professor
                          Harvard Medical School
                          (confirmed)   

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Yijun Ruan            Senior Group Leader
                          Assoc Director, Genomic Technologies
                          Genome Institute of Singpore
                          (confirmed)

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Arend Sidow         Associate Professor of Pathology and Genetics
                          Member Bio-X
                          Stanford School of Medicine 
                          (confirmed)

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Stephan Schuster   Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
                          Center for infectious Disease Dynamics
                          Penn State
                          (confirmed)

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Panelists

Gina Costa            Director, R&D Projects
                           SOLiD Sequencing/ Applied Biosystems
                           (confirmed)

Timothy Harkins     Genome Sequencing
                           Roche Applied Science
                           (confirmed)

X. Shirley Liu         Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistical Science
                           Harvard School of Public Health, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
                           (confirmed)

Gabor Marth          Assistant Professor of Biology
                           Boston College
                           (confirmed)

Patrice Milos          Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
                           Helicos Bioscience Corporation
                           (confirmed)

Corey Nislow         Assistant Professor, Molecular Cell Biology
                           Banting and Best Department of Medical Research
                           Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
                           University of Toronto
                           (confirmed)

Chad Nusbaum       Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program
                           The Broad Institute
                           (confirmed)

John Quackenbush  Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
                           Harvard School of Public Health, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
                           (confirmed)     

Kevin Struhl          David Wesley Gaiser Professor
                           Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
                           Harvard Medical School
                           (confirmed)

Wing Wong            Professor of Statistics and of Health Research and Policy
                           Stanford University 
                           (confirmed)

Dale Yuzuki           Sequencing Segment Manager, NA-East
                           Illumina, Inc.
                           (confirmed)

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