Barcelona Summer School in Genomics and Bioinformatics

I am happy to announce the Barcelona Summer School in Genomics and Bioinformatics, which will take place from September 17th to 21st 2012. The course is organized by Ferran Casals from the IBE and UPF. He has  put together a very interesting program with a great list of speakers and topics. We will participate teaching Cancer Genomics and Functional Annotation of Variants.

If you are interested you can register at http://biologiaevolutiva.org/BSSGB/

I give you further details of the course, list of speakers and program in this post.

 

Course title: “Next Generation Sequencing for Population and Medical Genomics”

From September 17th to September 21th 2012, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Aim: Next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized genomics research. In this course we aim to familiarize the students with the different NGS technologies and their applications to the study of human genetic variation and disease. The course will cover aspects from technology and informatics to experimental design and data analysis. This course is designed to be of interest for master and PhD students preferentially with a background on human genetics. The course will include theoretical and practical sessions.

Number of participants: 25

Confirmed Speakers:

• Roderic Guigó (Centre for Genomic Regulation)
• Ivo Gut (Centre Nacional d’Anàlisi Genòmica)
• Tomàs Marquès-Bonet (Institute of Evolutionary Biology)
• Núria López-Bigas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• Chris Tyler-Smith (Welcome Trust Sanger Institute)
• Yali Xue (Welcome Trust Sanger Institute)
• Luis Pérez Jurado (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
• Arcadi Navarro (Institute of Evolutionary Biology)
• Cedric Notredame (Centre for Genomic Regulation)
• Stephan Ossowski (Centre for Genomic Regulation)

Coordinator:

• Ferran Casals (Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Institute of Evolutionary Biology)

Tuition:

The registration fee of 500 Euros covers course materials, coffee breaks and lunches. Lodging costs are not included in the registration fee. 

Pre-registration: Please register at http://biologiaevolutiva.org/BSSGB/. Accepted participants will receive the instructions for the payment.

Please contact bcnSSGB@gmail.com for further information.

 

PROGRAM

 

Day 1. Monday, September 17^th. Morning

9 – 10.30. The next-generation sequencing revolution.

10.30 – 11.00. Coffee break.

11.00 – 12. 15. NGS sequencing technologies.

12.15 – 13.30. NGS data processing and analysis.

Day 1. Monday, September 17^th. Afternoon

15.30 – 19. Hands-on session. NGS data processing and analysis.

Day 2. Tuesday, September 18^th. Morning.

9 – 10.30. Structural variation from NGS data.

10.30 – 11.00. Coffee break.

11.00 – 12. 15. Functional annotation of variants.

12.15 – 13.30. Third-generation sequencing technologies.

Day 2. Tuesday, September 18^th Afternoon.

15.30 – 19. Hands-on session. CNV analyses. Functional annotation.

Day 3. Wednesday, September 19^th Morning.

9 – 10.30. 11.30 – 12.30. Lessons from the 1000 Genomes Project.

10.30 – 11.00. Coffee break.

11.00 – 12. 15. Loss of function variants in human genes.

12.15 – 13.30. Genetics of rare and complex disease (I). Rare disease. Exome sequencing. 

Day 3. Wednesday, September 19^th Afternoon.

15.30 – 19. Repositories of human variation. Exome sequencing for rare diseases.

Day 4. Thursday, September 20^th. Morning.

9 – 10.30. NGS for Cancer Genomics.

10.30 – 11.00. Coffee break.

11.00 – 12. 15. Genetics of rare and complex disease (II). Complex disease. NGS for complex diseases. Whole genome sequencing.

12.15 – 13.30. Rare variants analysis.

Day 4. Thursday, September 20^th Afternoon.

15.30 – 19. Hands-on session. Cancer genomics

Day 5. Friday, September 21^th.Morning.

9 – 10.30. From genome to function. RNA sequencing.

10.30 – 11.00. Coffee break.

11.00 – 12.15. Epigenomics and human disease.

12.15 – 13.30. Chip-Seq using NGS.

Day 5. Friday, September 21^th. Afternoon.

15.30 – 19. Hands-on session. RNAseq.