Day 1: Thursday 15 January 2015

08.45–09.20 Coffee/Registration

MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 1: Topic Population scale sequencing

Chair: Halina Novak

09.20–09.30 Welcome

09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Jan Korbel, EMBL, Germany: From genomic variation to

molecular mechanism

10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Radoje Drmanac, CSO Complete Genomics, USA:

Enabling large scale "perfect" personal genome sequencing

10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Mike Lelivelt, Director of Bioinformatics and Software

Products at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Life Technologies), USA: Performance Update for

Ion Torrent Semiconductor Sequencing

10.55–11.05 Sponsor Talk: Peter Schols, CEO Diploid, Belgium: Outsourcing human

genome interpretation

11.05–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–12.05 Invited Speaker: Xun Xu, BGI, China: Single Cell Sequencing Technology

and Applications

12.05–12.30 Company Speaker: Alex Dickinson, SVP Strategic Initiatives, Illumina, USA:

Geonomics: Sequencing at a Global Scale

12.30–12.40 Sponsor Talk: Jurgen Goudmaeker, Sales Specialist Eppendorf, Belgium:

Eppendorf and NGS Applications

12.40–14.00 Lunch & Poster session

Revolutionizing Next-Generation Sequencing

Tools And Technologies

15 & 16 January 2015

Kinepolis Leuven, Belgium

MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 2: Topic: From complex/rare samples to rich data

Chair: Mark Veugelers

09.20–09.30 Welcome

09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Eske Willerslev, Copenhagen University, Denmark: What can

we learn from Ancient Genetics and Genomics

10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Marie Mikkelsen, CTO Samplix, Denmark: PINS – A New

Front-end for Next Generation Sequencing

10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Jeremy Gillespie, Business Development Enzymatics, UK:

NGS Library Construction-from Bench to Clinic

10.55–11.05: Sponsor Talk: Bjoern Textor, NGS Application Specialist, New England

Biolabs, USA: Repair of FFPE DNA sample to improve NGS library yield and quality

11.05–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–12.05 Invited Speaker: David Jaffe, Broad Institute, USA: Personal genome

assembly

12.05–12.30 Company Speaker: Max Van Min, CEO Cergentis, the Netherlands: Targeted

locus amplification for hypothesis neutral next generation sequencing and haplotyping

of selected genomic loci

12.30–12.40 Sponsor Talk: Paul Lomax, Strategic Business Development Leader - Genomics

& NGS, PerkinElmer, UK: Enabling NGS

12.40-14.00 Lunch & Poster session

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 1: topic: Emerging DNA sequencing technologies

Chair: Peter Verhasselt

14.00–14.35 Invited Speaker: Evan Eichler, University of Washington, USA: Resolving the

structural variation complexity of genomes using single molecule real time sequencing

technology

14.35–15.00 Company Speaker: Paul Schaffer, Lifecycle Leader Sequencing Platforms

Roche Diagnostics, USA: Why long read, quick turn around time, single molecule

sequencing is fit for the clinic

15.00–15.25 Sponsor Talk: Johnsee Lee, CEO Personal Genomics Inc., Taiwan:

Optoelectronic Single-Molecule Sequencing: The Next Generation NGS for Clinical

Applications

15.25–15.35 Sponsor Talk: Tony Montoye, Head of marketing & applications Trinean,

Belgium: Improve input DNA/RNA sample QC using a standardized platform

15.35–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Mark Akeson, University of California Santa Cruz, USA:

Nanopore Sequencing Comes of Age

16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: Gordon Hamilton, CEO Picoseq, France: SIMDEQ – a

Novel Technology for Single-Molecule Genetic & Epigenetic Analysis

17.00–17.10 Sponsor Talk: Markus Tilmes, European Sales Manager, Advanced Analytical

Technologies Inc., USA: Using the Fragment Analyzer to simplify your NGS Library QC

17.10–17.20 Sponsor Talk: Audrey Coiffic, Business Development Manager, Sophia

Genetics, Switzerland: Sophia Genetics: Towards Data Driven Medicine

17.20–17.30 Sponsor Talk: Geoffrey Henno, Genomics Sales Agent Agilent, Belgium: NGS

workflows for small and large panels, exomes, genomes

17.30–17.40 Sponsor Talk: Marc Hahn, Product specialist Macrogen, Korea: Macrogen:

Advancing Through genomics Sequencing service Overview

17.40 –18.30 Closing drink

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 2: topic: Single-cell genomics

Chair: Albena Jordanova

14.00–14.35 Invited Speaker: Fuchou Tang, Peking University, China: Dissecting gene

regulation network in human early embryos at single-cell and single-base resolution

14.35–15.10 Invited Speaker: Mats Nilsson, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of

Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden: In situ sequencing for

expression and mutation profiling of fixed cells and tissue sections

15.10–15.20 Sponsor Talk: François-Xavier Sicot, Senior Product Manager NGS, Takara

Clontech, France: The SMARTer way to low input RNA-Seq

15.30–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Ido Amit, Weizzman Institute, Israel: Shaping the blood:

Lessons from Chromatin and single cell RNA-seq dynamics

16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: Armin Schneider, Senior Vice President Research Sygnis,

Germany: TruePrime, a novel MDA method for DNA and RNA amplification based on

TthPrimPol

17.00–17.25 Company Speaker: Jay West, Senior Director Of Research & Development,

Fluidigm, USA: Biomarker Discovery and Validation Using Low Coverage Sequencing

of Single cells

17.25–17.35 Sponsor Talk: Svenja Debey-Pascher, Technical Support Scientist Nugen

Technologies Europe, the Netherlands: An end-to-end solution for strand-specific RNA-

Seq using picogram amounts of total RNA or single cell lysates

17.35 –18.30 Closing drink

Day 2: Friday 16 January 2015

09.00-09.30 Coffee/Registration

MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 1: topic: Epigenomics

Chair: Albena Jordanova

09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Ryan Lister, University of Western Australia, Australia:

Global Epigenomic Reconfiguration During Mammalian Brain Development

10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Tobias Ost, R&D Manager, Cambridge Epigenetix, UK:

Oxidative Bisulfite - a new way to look at true methylation and hydroxymethylation

10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Sharon Squazzo, Applications and Business Development

Scientist, Diagenode, USA: Enabling Solutions for Reproducible ChIP-Seq and

Epigenetic Analyses

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–11.50 Selected Speaker: Tim De Meyer, Ghent University, Belgium: Hardy-

Weinberg theorem based identification of imprinted loci from large-scale omics data

11.50–12.15 Company Speaker: Annabelle Gerard, Group leader Nucleic Acid Assays,

HiFiBio, France: Epigenetic characterization of rare cell populations using droplet based

microfluidics

12.30-14.00 Lunch & Poster session

MORNING PARALLEL SESSION 2: topic: Next-Gen Transcriptomics

Chair: Peter Verhasselt

09.30–10.05 Invited Speaker: Jin Billy Li, Stanford University, USA: Regulatory and

Functional Landscape of RNA Editing

10.05–10.30 Company Speaker: Alexander Seitz, CEO, Lexogen, Austria: RNA-seq does

not need to be complicated

10.30–10.55 Company Speaker: Gary Schroth, Senior Director R&D, Illumina, USA:

Advanced Topics in RNA Sequencing – FFPE, Fusions and Viruses

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

11.30–12.05 Invited Speaker: James Eberwine, University of Pennsylvania, USA: The

Theory of Cellular Deconstruction – Expression Variability, Translational Regulation

and Functional Genomics

12.05–12.40 Invited Speaker: Patrik Stahl, SciLifeLab and Karolinska Institute, Sweden:

Spatial Transcriptomics - Transcriptome Sequencing of Single Cells in a Spatial Tissue

Context

12.40-14.00 Lunch & Poster session

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 1: topic: Long reads, genome structure and genome

mapping

Chair: Halina Novak

14.00–14.35 Selected Speaker: Adam Ameur, Uppsala Genome Center, Science for Life

Laboratory Uppsala, Sweden: NGS method development for infection and oncology

research

14.35–15.00 Company Speaker: Ralph Vogelsang, European Sales Manager Pacific

Biosciences, USA: Single-Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT™) DNA Sequencing: Technology

Update and Recent Applications

15.00–15.25 Company Speaker: Han Cao, CSO Bionano Genomics, USA: Mapping the

“Dark Matter” of Genome – Long repeats, Complex Structural Variations and Towards

True Contiguity of de novo Assembly with Nanochannel Technology

15.30–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Nick Loman, University of Birmingham, UK: What can we

do with real-time nanopore sequencing?

16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: John Oliver, Vice President Research Nabsys, USA:

Nanochannels and Electronic Detection for Single-Molecule Based Mapping of

Genomes

17.00–17.20 Selected Speaker: Matthew Hestand, Department of Human Genetics, KU

Leuven, Belgium: Polymerase specific error rates identified by single molecule

sequencing

17.30 –18.30 Closing drink

AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSION 2: topic: Bioinformatics and data analysis

Chair: Mark Veugelers

14.00–14.35 Invited Speaker: James Taylor, Johns Hopkins University, USA: Accessible

and Reproducible Genomics at Scale with Galaxy

14.35–15.00 Company Speaker: Mike Furness, Senior Account Manager DNAnexus, UK:

Genome-based Medicine – networking science

15.00–15.25 Company Speaker: Pieter van Rooyen, CEO Edico Genome, USA: The need

for a compact high speed processing in NGS

15.30–16.00 Coffee Break

16.00–16.35 Invited Speaker: Peter Van Loo, Cancer Research UK London Research

Institute / Francis Crick Institute, UK: Molecular archaeology of cancer

16.35–17.00 Company Speaker: Hans Karten, CEO/CTO Genalice, the Netherlands: Taking

definitive care of the NGS big data deluge

17.00–17.25 Company Speaker: Roald Forsberg, VP Research and Development CLCBio,

Denmark: QIAGEN Bioinformatics - a comprehensive informatics platform for analysis,

interpretation and services

17.30–18.30 Closing drink