4th Annual Oxford Global Next Generation Sequencing Asia Congress 2014

The Asian NGS indus­try presents a key oppor­tu­nity for novel tech­nol­ogy devel­op­ment and inno­va­tion thanks to increased invest­ment and the trans­for­ma­tion of Sin­ga­pore into an inter­na­tional sci­ence hub. This two-​day event will see col­lab­o­ra­tion between experts from Asia, Aus­trala­sia, Europe and the USA to solve key chal­lenges and embrace emerg­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties in NGS.

Day 1 of the event cov­ers the lat­est devel­op­ments in NGS and microar­ray tech­nol­ogy, sam­ple prepa­ra­tion meth­ods and agrige­nomics. Pre­sen­ta­tions will also cover third gen­er­a­tion sequenc­ing tech­nol­ogy, stan­dard­ized work­flow oppor­tu­ni­ties and cutting-​edge tech­niques for plant and ani­mal genome research.

On Day 2 our expert speak­ers will dis­cuss clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions for NGS tech­nolo­gies and the role of genomics in can­cer research, per­son­alised med­i­cine and diag­nos­tics. Del­e­gates will also hear from those work­ing at the fore­front of bioin­for­mat­ics, as they dis­cuss solu­tions to the chal­lenges of data man­age­ment and stor­age, as well as new oppor­tu­ni­ties for data shar­ing and collaboration.

The 4^th Annual Next Gen­er­a­tion Sequenc­ing Asia Con­gress will be co-​located with the 2^nd Annual Sin­gle Cell Genomics and Tran­scrip­tomics Asia Con­gress.

Day 1 Stream 1 – NGS Tech­nolo­gies and Platforms

• Sequenc­ing tech­nolo­gies for DNA and RNA research
• Third Gen­er­a­tion Sequenc­ing Technologies
  • Tun­nelling
  • SMRT
  • Ion Tor­rent
  • Nanopore tech­nol­ogy
  • Automa­tion in NGS Sam­ple preparation
  • Genome edit­ing tools: TAL­ENs and CRISPRs

Day 1 Stream 2 – Plant and Ani­mal Genomics

• New play­ers in cell dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion: non-​coding RNAs
• Advances in Microar­ray technology
• Agrige­nomics: soy­bean, rice, cot­ton and wheat genomics
• Plant genomics case stud­ies: novel breed­ing tech­niques , crop improve­ment and hybridiza­tion technology
• Whole genome sequenc­ing of com­men­sal bacteria
• Using NGS to under­stand dis­ease resis­tance in livestock

Day 2 Stream 1 – Clin­i­cal Appli­ca­tions, Can­cer Research and Diagnostics

• NGS: a new era of can­cer research
• Sequenc­ing for rare diseases
• Work­ing towards per­son­alised genomic medicine
• The appli­ca­tions of NGS in biotherapeutics

Day 2 Stream 2 – Ana­lyt­i­cal Genomics, Bioin­for­mat­ics and Data Analysis

• Cloud based solu­tions for col­lab­o­ra­tion and data sharing
• Novel tech­nol­ogy for NGS Data storage
• Inno­va­tions in epigenetics
• Com­pu­ta­tional genomic analysis
• Tools for anno­tat­ing and under­stand­ing NGS variants

Who will attend

The 4^th Annual NGS Asia Con­gress is a high-​level dis­cus­sion and net­work­ing plat­form for inter­na­tional experts work­ing in sequenc­ing, genomics and epi­ge­net­ics. Del­e­gates will include Pro­fes­sors, Direc­tors and lead­ing sci­en­tists work­ing in the fol­low­ing areas:

• Ana­lyt­i­cal genomics
• Ani­mal genomics
• Bioin­for­mat­ics
• Can­cer diagnostics
• Chro­matin modification
• Clin­i­cal sequencing
• DNA methy­la­tion
• DNA sequenc­ing
• Epi­ge­net­ics
• Ion tor­rent sequencing
• Microar­ray technology
• Nanopore Tech­nol­ogy
• NGS data
• Per­sonal genomics
• Per­son­alised medicine
• Plant genomics
• RNA sequenc­ing
• Whole genome sequencing

Sub­mit a poster

For atten­dees inter­ested in sub­mit­ting a poster, there are oppor­tu­ni­ties now avail­able. Your poster pre­sen­ta­tion will be located in the exhi­bi­tion room for two days along­side other posters from senior sci­en­tists work­ing in indus­try and academia.

How to sub­mit your poster

We will require:

• Poster title
• Abstract (200 words or less)
• Prin­ci­pal author
• Organ­i­sa­tion
• Mail­ing address
• Email
• Tele­phone, Fax
• Addi­tional authors

In order to secure your board space a fee of $250 SGD will be required. The poster should be pre­sented as A0 (841mm x 1189mm) por­trait size.

To take advan­tage of this oppor­tu­nity you need to be reg­is­tered as a paid del­e­gate over the 2 days. We have lim­ited spaces avail­able, so please reg­is­ter soon.