The Genomics of Common Diseases (GCD) committee and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES) are pleased to announce a joint symposium titled “Big Data Analytics for Genetics in Personalised Medicine”.
The integration of large-scale human genomics and disease phenotypes data is offering new opportunities for personalised medicine. The joint symposium will focus on recent developments in analytical tools and resources that are facilitating big data integration, exploration, and usage in medicine. It will offer a platform for scientists interested in learning and sharing innovative tools and interfaces that improve up-to-date access to genetic data for making clinical decisions.
The symposium will offer a valuable training ground and rich learning experience for students and trainees, and provide networking opportunities for scientists across disciplines relevant to complex trait analysis and human diseases. It will be relevant for clinicians, research scientists, bioinformaticians and data users interested in integrating genomic results into the clinical setting.
This event will be held at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom on 9 September, 2017; following the GCD conference (6−8 September) and prior to the IGES meeting (9−11 September).
Keynote speakers
- George Davey – Smith University of Bristol, UK
- Haky Im – University of Chicago, USA
- Heidi Rehm – The Broad Institute, USA
- Peter Robinson – The Jackson Laboratory, USA
- Kimberly Siegmund – University of Southern California, USA
Scientific sessions
- Advances in quantitative and computational methods
- Development of biological data ontologies, querying and classification
- Curation and validity of gene – disease association
- Integrating large-scale genomic and phenotypic data
- Analytics of high throughput sequencing data
Symposium Committees
The GCD scientific programme committee
- Orli Bahcall – Nature, USA
- Wendy Bickmore – University of Edinburgh, UK
- Peter Campbell – WTSI, UK
- Aravinda Chakravarti – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
- Sekar Kathiresan – Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
- Teri Manolio – National Human Genome Research Institute, USA
- Nicole Soranzo – Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
- Kyle Vogan – Nature Genetics, USA
The IGES scientific program committee
- Emmanuelle Bouzigon – Université Paris-Diderot, France
- Josée Dupuis – Boston University, USA
- Inke König – Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
- Andrew Morris – University of Liverpool, UK
- Guillaume Pare – McMaster University, Canada
- Jaya Satagopan – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
- Eleanor Wheeler – Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
- Chih-Chieh Wu – National Cheng Kung University, Japan
Conference organiser
- Laura Hubbard – Wellcome Genome Campus, UK