Everything You Need to Know to Follow #AGBT15
The AGBT conference is taking place at the beautiful Marco Island, Florida between Feb 25, 2015 - Feb 28, 2015.
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Previews
My friend Keith Robison, who writes Omics!Omics! blog, posted an excellent preview on the conference, listing what to expect (and not expect). You can read it here.
Keith is very up-to-date and knowledgeable about latest genomics technology, and his blog was selected by our readers and judges as the ‘Best of 2013’. Here are two other informative posts from Keith related to AGBT15.
Illumina Launches NeoPrep (#agbt15)
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Conference information
You can see the talks and posters at this website. One nice aspect of AGBT is that they allow outsiders to see all abstracts on their website. For some strange reason, CSHL conferences have not mastered this technology.
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On twitter
You can follow the conference in twitter using hashtag #AGBT15, or simply click on this link. A large number of attendees are live-tweeting the talks. In fact this year, they have made twittering the default option for all talks, unless the speaker requests otherwise.
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Is perfect bioinformatician possible?
I am not attending the conference, but if I wanted to list my reasons for being there, listening to Gene Myers would have been at the top. Over the last year, I read almost all of his papers going all the way back to 1980s and found them to be incredibly good.
As you may have noticed, Gene Myers came back to the topic of genome assembly last year to revolutionize the field again.
Myers has two talks -
Is Perfect Assembly Possible?
Gene Myers, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Systems Biology Center, Max Planck Institute
Saturday, February 28
Low Coverage, Correction-Free Assembly for Long Reads
Gene Myers, Max Planck Institute CBG
11:20 a.m. 11:40 a.m.
Plenary Session: Genomics II
Islands Ballroom
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Pacbio workshop and live-streaming
If you are not at the conference, you can still view Gene Myers’ talk and a number of other talks through live-streaming by PacBio. It requires registration at the Pacbio website.
Pacbio organized a fantastic line-up of speakers for their workshop. They are listed below, and you can see more details on posters from their website.
WORKSHOP
Palms Ballroom
Friday, February 27, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lunch will be served
Towards Comprehensive Genomics - Past Present and Future
Introduction by Michael Hunkapiller
President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Biosciences
The Human Genome: From One To One Million
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Human Longevity Inc.
Is Perfect Assembly Possible?
Gene Myers, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Systems Biology Center, Max Planck Institute
Finishing Genomes: Why Does It Matter?
Deanna Church, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Genomics and Content, Personalis
De Novo Assembly of a Human Diploid Genome for the Asian Genome Project
Jeong-Sun Seo M.D.,Ph.D.
Director Genomic Medicine Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Founder and Chairman, Macrogen Inc.
PacBio Long Read Sequencing and Structural Analysis of a Breast Cancer Cell Line
W. Richard McCombie, Ph.D.
Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS
Thursday, February 26
Resolving the Complexity of Human Genetic Variation by Single-Molecule Sequencing
Evan Eichler, University of Washington
9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m.
Plenary Session: Genomics I
Islands Ballroom
Anchored Assembly: Accurate Structural Variant Detection Using Short-Read Data
Jeremy Bruestle, Spiral Genetics
8:30 p.m. 8:50 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Informatics
Salons E & F
Sequencing-Based Approaches for Genome-Scale Functional Annotation
Matthew Blow, D.O.E. Joint Genome Institute
8:50 p.m. 9:10 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Biology
Islands Ballroom
Friday, February 27
Neural Circular RNAs are Derived from Synaptic Genes and Regulated by Development and Plasticity
Wei Chen, Max-Delbruck-Centrum (MDC)
8:50 p.m. 9:10 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Transcriptomics
Salons G through J
A Genome Assembly of the Domestic Goat from 70x Coverage of Single Molecule Real Time Sequence
Tim Smith, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
8:50 p.m. 9:10 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Technology
Islands Ballroom
PacBio Application Influenza Viral RNA-Seq
Amy Ly, The Genome Institute at Washington University
9:10 p.m. 9:30 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Technology
Islands Ballroom
Saturday, February 28
Low Coverage, Correction-Free Assembly for Long Reads
Gene Myers, Max Planck Institute CBG
11:20 a.m. 11:40 a.m.
Plenary Session: Genomics II
Islands Ballroom
