Genomics meetings & conferences

NGS 2013 Manchester: Applications & Bottlenecks

5th – 6th November 2013 Manchester, United Kingdom

The aim of our NGS conferences is to address key issues being faced by laboratories that are implementing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) into their workflows. Whilst NGS is a very powerful technology that holds the promise of unlocking the secrets of DNA sequences on a large scale, its implementation has not been as smooth as anticipated.

Our previous co-organized event in this area – NGS2013 Oxford Workshop & Symposium – focussed on bioinformatics, but with the current NGS conference in Manchester we want to take the theme a step further by broadening the discussion areas

Whether your laboratory is working in the area of clinical genetics, animal, plant or microbial genetics you will be aware that there are common issues that unite researchers in all of these fields when it comes to establishing workflows for NGS. These issues which have become recognized bottlenecks across all areas of NGS based research include but are not limited to Library generation, Data analysis and Data storage. Whilst these issues are now being addressed by start-up as well as established biotech companies, they are being tackled in isolation of the entire NGS workflow.

The NGS 2013 Manchester conference will bring together leading experts from widely diverse backgrounds to tackle these issues by networking, discussing the common bottlenecks and working with biotech companies to try and mitigate these issues. We strive to keep our conferences informal and create a good personal atmosphere so as to facilitate dialogue and networking amongst all participants.

The result is an NGS conference that gather researchers from Pharma, Biotech, Hospitals and Universities who are working in areas and applications that benefit each other when discussed in the context of common NGS bottlenecks. Researchers working in the areas of micro RNA’s, Exome & Genomic sequencing, NGS panels, inherited diseases, expression analysis, viral genomics to name but a few areas can now listen to each other and find effective strategies and partners that will help in ironing out the bottlenecks.

Who should attend:

1. All NGS users, researchers and students

2. Bioinformaticians

3. NHS Labs and private companies, Pharma, Biotech and Agro Companies

Geneticists interested in the latest developments of:

• Bioinformatics

• Biomarkers

• Computational Biology

• Data Analysis

• Data interpretation

• DNA Sequencing

• Genetics/Genomics

• Infectious and inherited Diseases

• Informatics

• Molecular and Cell Biology

• Molecular Diagnostics

• Next Generation Sequencing

5th International Young Scientists School “Bioinformatics and Systems Biology” SBB-2013

23-26 June 2013 Novosibirsk, Russia

The science sections are:

1) Development biology and stem cells

2) Bioinformatics and analysis of genome sequencing data

3) Human origin and evolution. Paleogenomics

4) Analysis of genome sequencing data

Contacts

THE INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS
The Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
RUSSIAN FEDERATION

630090 Novosibirsk
Prospekt Lavrentyeva 10

Tel: +7(383) 363-49-80
Fax: +7(383) 333-12-78
E-mail: sbb2013@bionet.nsc.ru

2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013)

November 17–19, 2013 Houston, Texas

The 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS 2013) will be held in Houston during November 17-19, 2013. GENSIPS 2013 will provide a forum for signal processing researchers, bioinformaticians, computational biologists, biomedical engineers, and biostatisticians to exchange ideas and discuss the challenges confronting computational bioinformatics and systems biology communities due to the high modality of disparate high-throughput data, high variability of data acquisition, high dimensionality of biomedical data, and high complexity of genomics and proteomics. GENSIPS 2013 will feature prominent plenary speakers in biomedical research.

Contact

The workshop organizers may be contacted at info@gensips2013.org.

12th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD '13)

In conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'13)

August 11, 2013 Chicago, Illinois

The goal of this workshop is to encourage KDD researchers to take on the numerous challenges that Bioinformatics offers. This year, the workshop will feature the theme of building network and predictive models of biological processes and diseases using complex data. This field focuses on the use of computational approaches, especially from data mining and machine learning, and the large amount and variety of biological data being generated. The goal here is to build accurate predictive or descriptive network models of biological processes and diseases. These approaches have revolutionized the new age biology by enabling novel discoveries in basic biology and diseases like cancer and diabetes, as well as the development of therapeutics.

Global Health 2013, The Second International Conference on Global Health Challenges

November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

Colocated with other events part of DataSys 2013

Tracks:

FUNDAMENTALS
Foundations in global health informatics; Computational health; Software for health; Independent living technologies; ICT and health; Platform interoperability; Semantic interoperability; Diagnosis systems; Applied health informatics; User interfaces and visualization

TECHNOLOGY
Bio-medical semantics; Bio-medicine; Disease biomarker prediction; Applications of bio-nano technology; Body networks; Mobile healthcare; Ubiquitous healthcare

TRENDS
Clinical epigenetic; Long term health conditions; Ambient assisted; Genetics; Virtual reality in medicine surgery; Clinical trials; Computational and knowledge management on proteomics and genomics; Drug design, disease diagnosis and control

PRACTICE
Nursing; Patient-centered care; Personalized medicine; Pervasive health; Homecare; Pharmaceutical services

ALTERNATIVE
Biomedicine; Natural medicine; Preventive medicine; Chronic diseases following; Home surveillance

CHALLENGES
Security aspects and access control on medical data; Data management in pervasive context; Data quality assurance and provenance; Patient flow models in hospitals; Clinical data analysis; Information visualization of medical data

GLOBAL
eHealth initiatives; Social medicine; Health global accessibility; Epidemic spreading and control; Health Education; Providing health in remote areas; Decision support within healthcare; Ethical aspects in eHealth; Healthcare plans and patient benefits; Synchronization of federal regulations; Availability of medication; Community health services

Advances in Plasmodium vivax Malaria Research

May 28 - 29, 2013 Barcelona, Spain

Presented by The New York Academy of Sciences, the "la Caixa" Foundation, B-DEBATE, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), and the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB)

Malaria accounts for approximately 250 million clinical cases and nearly 1 million deaths annually, mostly in children, in 109 countries. There has been growing evidence that Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed malaria parasite, responsible for a significant burden of global disease and accounting for the majority of malaria cases in Latin America and Asia. Despite the increasing awareness that the overall burden, economic impact, and severity of P. vivax disease have been underestimated, this species remains underrepresented in the scientific literature and professional fora.

This 2-day conference will convene a global community of researchers to discuss P. vivax molecular biology and genomics, host–parasite interactions, novel research techniques (e.g., 'omics) to overcome barriers to in vitro, in vivo, and clinical study of P. vivax; drug resistance and drug discovery; and recent clinical trial and in-field efforts in P. vivax prevention, treatment, control, and elimination.

International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2013)

August 11-13, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing are synergistic disciplines that hold great promise for the advancement of biomedical research and development through the design of intelligent systems to solve engineering practical problems as well as translational science problems. Research and development in these areas impact science and technology, and synergies among these disciplines provide enormous potential. The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) aims to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of ideas and promotion of interdisciplinary collaborations. Keeping these objectives in mind, ICIBM solicits original contributions in the following non-exclusive lists of areas.

Bioinformatics

Functional genomics, personalized medicine, genetics and genomics, multi-dimensional data integration, next generation sequencing analysis (including algorithms, tools and data analysis), microarray based data analysis, biomedical data analysis, bio-molecular and phylogenetic databases, bio-languages, interoperability in bio-databases, bio-ontology and data mining, identification and classification of genes, sequence search and alignment, protein structure prediction and molecular simulation, molecular evolution and phylogeny, proteomics, drug discovery, drug design, bioinformatics engineering, bio-data visualization, algorithms, modeling and simulation of bio-datasets, biomarker discovery, bio-imaging, signaling and computation.

Systems Biology

Modeling and simulation of biological processes, pathways, networks, regulatory networks, pipelines, mathematical and quantitative models of cellular and multi-cellular systems, emergence of properties in complex biological systems, methods to predict biological network behavior from incomplete information, statistical modeling of biological data, prediction and validation, synthetic biological systems, high performance bio-computing, self-organization in living systems (cells, organisms, swarms, ecosystems, etc.), platforms for computational modeling of living systems (parallel, distributed, and multi-resolution simulation methods), differential, discrete and/or stochastic modeling-language frameworks, applications of systems biology towards understanding disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery and drug target validation.

Intelligent Computing

Machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, natural langue processing, literature mining, semantic and ontology driven biological data analysis, neural computing, kernel methods, evolutionary computing, swarm intelligence and optimization, feature selection/extraction, ensemble methods, manifold learning theory, artificial life and artificial immune systems, technology to develop artificial components, systematization methodology for intelligent systems, and scientific principles related to artificial life. 

For general questions/inquiries, please email us at icibm.list@gmail.com.

2013 Health Disparities & Genomics Conference

May 29th – May 31st, 2013 San Francisco, California

Why We Can’t Wait: Conference to Eliminate Health Disparities in Genomic Medicine

Genetic advances hold extreme promise, but also the potential to further increase health disparities. Now is the time to address this. Join a forum of stakeholders to learn, identify, and discuss many of the challenges and possible solutions for addressing health disparities in genomic medicine.

To contact the 2013 Conference Planning Committee or join the 2013 Conference listserv, email: HIHGGAPCONF@med.miami.edu

European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics Annual Conference

September 19-21, 2013 Bochum, Germany

“Personalised medicine” – medicine for the person? Ethical challenges for medical research and practice

The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organise the EACME annual conference in 2013. The conference will be organised in cooperation with the Centre for Medical Ethics Bochum (ZME e.V.) and supported by the Research Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum. 

Contact details and further information:
President of the Conference: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann
Scientific Secretary: PD Dr. med. Jan Schildmann, M.A.  

Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Ruhr University Bochum
Markstrasse 258a
44799 Bochum
Germany 

Tel.: 0049 234-32-23394      
Fax: 0049 234-32-14205      
E-mail: info(at)eacme2013.org
Conference website: www.eacme2013.org

Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) 2013 Annual Meeting

November 14-16, 2013 Phoenix, Arizona

Genomics. Proteomics. Informatics. Optimizing Patient Care.

This three-day event will feature more than 25 hours of cutting-edge sessions, a keynote presentation by the AMP 2013 Award for Excellence Recipient, nearly 400 posters, 150 exhibitors, and countless opportunities to interact directly with your colleagues.

The meeting is preceded by one day of Corporate-Sponsored Workshops featuring the latest scientific advances and instrumentation. Corporate exhibits, lunches, and casual social gatherings offer opportunities for networking and further exchange with molecular laboratory professionals. Plan to arrive early to take advantage of this free event.

A special feature of the meeting is the Molecular Pathology Outreach Course, Current Applications of Molecular Pathology: Real Time Updates and Case Studies, a one-day course for pathologists, laboratory directors and technologists who have little experience with molecular pathology testing. Registration for the Molecular Pathology Outreach Course is separate from registration for the scientific sessions.