The 3rd Kyoto Course and Symposium on Bioinformatics for Next Generation Sequencing with Applications in Human Genetics
TRAINING COURSE
The 3-day course will provide a practical introduction to analysis of next generation sequencing data, including handling of raw data as well as their application to the study of human diseases. This year, we have placed special emphasis on the analysis of complex traits using NGS data (e.g. whole genome/exome, epigenome and target sequencing of the HLA loci) in addition to the technical challenges of analysis such as data manipulation and variant annotation.
Date:
Monday, March 16 – Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:00 – 17:00
Venue:
Seminar Room (1st floor), South Research Building
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
53, Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
Topics:
Introduction to Human Genetics, Data Manipulation and Variant Calling (SNV, CNV), Variant Annotation and Disease Gene Annotation, Statistical Tests, Methods for Complex Analysis, Epigenomics Analysis, HLA Analysis, Functional prediction
Course instructors:
Mathieu Bourgey (McGill Univ., Canada), Guillaume Bourque (McGill Univ., Canada), Atsuko Imai (Osaka Univ., Japan), Mark Lathrop (McGill Univ., Canada), Liming Liang (Harvard Univ., USA), Jacek Majewski (McGill Univ., Canada), Jurg Ott (Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC & Rockefeller Univ., USA), Shamil Sunyaev (Harvard Univ., USA), Joseph D. Terwilliger (Columbia Univ., USA), Daniel E. Weeks (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA), Ryo Yamada (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Wanling Yang (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Attendees:
The course is aimed principally at advanced doctoral students or post-doctoral researchers who need to apply next-generation sequencing in medical studies. Applicants will be selected based on description of their background and future research interests, to be submitted when applying for the course. The number of attendees will be limited to approximately 40. Those who intend to participate in the training course are requested to fill out the Course Application Form on our website.
Course fee:
Academic: 30,000 yen Non-academic: 60,000 yen
Application deadline: February 15, 2015
The selection results will be announced by February 20. Details of the payment of the course fee will be informed to successful candidates.
SYMPOSIUM
The course will be followed by a 2-day symposium with invited international speakers to provide perspectives on recent advances in medical genomics. The symposium will be open to the course attendees and others from the scientific community. Admission to the symposium is free of charge, but advance registration is recommended.
Date:
Thursday, March 19, 2015 10:00 – 17:00
Friday, March 20, 2015 10:00 – 12:30
Venue:
Memorial Auditorium, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Topics:
Genomics/Epigenomics, Analysis of Rare and Complex Diseases, High Speed Computation for Life Big Data, Application of Genomic Studies to Drug Discovery, Pathway and Network
Analysis, BioBank, Epidemiology
Symposium speakers:
Florence Demenais (Inserm, France), David Langlais (McGill Univ., Canada), Liming Liang (Harvard Univ., USA), Samantha Murphy (UK Biobank, UK), Hui Huck Ng (Genome Inst. of Singapore, Singapore), Anavaj Sakuntabhai (Inst. Pasteur, France), Philippe Sanseau (GlaxoSmithKline, UK), Shoji Tsuji (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Daniel E. Weeks (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA), Wanling Yang (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
APPLICATION DETAILS
http://www.genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NgsCourse/
SECRETARIAT
Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
E-mail: ngs_course@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp