Conference Program

1st Nov 2012 (Thursday) – Day 1
9:30 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Conference Inauguration & Host introductions
Session 01
Chair: Dr Sekar Seshagiri
10:30 - 11:00 Keynote address - The State of Sequencing Technologies
Dr Stephan C Schuster, Penn State, USA
11:00 - 11:15 Short break
Session 02
Chair: Dr George Thomas
11:30 - 12:00 Driving Improved Clinical Outcomes with the Power of Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Technology
Vanessa Tyrrell, Business Manager Illumina, Inc.
12:00 - 12:30 Library-prep Free Sequence Capture Using Haloplex Technology
Dr. M Srinivasan, Head Research and Development, Agilent Technologies.
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & poster setup
Session 03
Chair: Dr Rama Verma
13:30 - 14:00 Path to the $1000 Genome Using Ion Semiconductor Sequencing
Dr. Mike Lelivelt,Director, Ion Torrent | Life Technologies
14:00 - 14:30 EMC Isilon
Sumanth B, EMC Isilon.
14:30 - 15:00 Defining New Paradigms for Sequence Assembly with Opgen.
Dr. Debjani Saha, Premas Biotech.
Session 04
15:00 - 16:00 Tea Break & Poster Viewing.
Session 05
Chair:Dr Andrew Peterson
16:00 - 16:30 Cardiology-panel for detection of genetic variants related to cardiovascular diseases and drug response.
Dr Rajesh C, SciGenom Labs, Cochin, India
16:30 - 17:00 Decoding the Zebrafish Genome & Transcriptome
Dr Sridhar Sivasubbu, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
17:00 - 17:30 Dr Harsha Govda
2nd Nov 2012 (Friday) - Day 2
9:00 Registration
Session 06
Chair: Dr George Thomas
09:30 - 10:00 Involvement of Alu repeats in creation of novel regulatory networks at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level in primate lineages
Dr Mitali Mukerjee, IGIB, New Delhi
10:00 - 10:30 Application of NGS in dissecting type 2 diabetes
Dr Andrew Peterson, Genentech, USA
10:30 - 11:00 Synthetic Proteins: New Tools for New Biology
Dr Dev Sidhu, University of Toronto, Canada
11:00 - 11:30 Tea Break
Session 07
Chair: Dr Sekar Seshagiri
11:30 - 12:15 Genomics in India
Dr Samir K Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR
12:15 - 12:45 Colon Cancer Genomics
Dr. Eric Stawiski, Genentech Inc., USA
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch & Poster setup/Viewing
Session 08
Chair: Dr. Rama Verma
14:00 - 14:30 Next Gen Sequencing - the new paradigm in molecular diagnostics
Dr IC Verma – Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi
14:30 - 15:00 Multiplex sequencing of mitochondrial genomes using next generation sequencing
Dr Preeti Rajesh, SciGenom Labs, Cochin India.
15:00 - 16:00 Coffee break in Poster and Vendor exhibit area
Session 09
Chair: Dr C Rajesh
16:00 - 16:30 Using computational and combinatorial tools to understand and inhibit protein interactions
Dr Phillip Kim, University of Toronto, Canada
16:30 - 17:00 From personal genomes to precision medicine
Dr. Vinod Scaria, IGIB, New Delhi.
3rd Nov 2012 (Saturday) – Day 3
8:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:45 Welcome and introduction
Dr. Purvish Parikh, ICON, Mumbai.
Session 10
Chair: Dr Sekar Seshagiri
9:45 - 10:15 Applied genomic analysis in lung cancer: discovery and treatment
Dr. Charlie Rudin, Johns Hopkins University, USA
10:15 - 10:45 Colon cancer genomics: from bench to bedside
Dr. Hanlee Ji, Stanford University, USA
10:45 - 11:15 Tea Break
Session 11
Chair: Dr Purvish Parikh
11:15 - 11:45 Decision Making in Breast Cancer: Use of Newer Biomarkers
Dr Sudeep Gupta, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
11:45 - 12:15 Molecular targets in the treatment of Leukemia
Dr. Digumarti Raghunadharao, NIIMS, Hyderabad.
12:15 - 13:00 Panel discussion on personalized cancer treatment
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch & Poster Viewing
Session 12
Chair: Dr Sekar Seshagiri & Dr Harsha Gowda
14:00 - 14:45 Keynote address
The Enigma of Our Generation: Deciphering the Complexity of Genomes using Single Molecule, Real-Time Sequencing - A Look at Applications in Clinical and Translational Medicine
Dr. Steven Turner, Pacific Biosciences, USA.
14:45 - 15:15 Clinical utility of genetic testing in pediatric practice
Dr Sujatha Jagadeesh, MediScan, Chennai.
15:15 - 15:45 Molecular Diagnosis in Single Gene Disorders in India: the Challenges.
Dr Parag Tamhankar, NIRRH, Mumbai.
15:45 - 16:15 Tea Break
Session 13
Chair: Dr Prasanna
16:15 - 16:45 Hereditary Cancers - Targeted resequencing.
Dr. T. Rajkumar, Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai.
16:45 - 17:15 Nextgen sequencing for mutation screening in clinical samples
Dr. Ravi Gupta & Swapna Menon, SciGenom Labs Cochin
17:15 - 18:00 Panel discussion and Meeting wrap up
 

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