The third in our biennial series of meetings entitled New and Developing Technologies for Genetic Diagnostics was held in Salisbury (UK) on 7th-8th July 2008. The meeting focussed on ‘non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD)’ and the ‘new generation sequencing technologies’, two key work areas in the NGRL(Wessex) work programme for the current quinquennium, as well as sessions on ‘detection of copy number changes’ and ‘acquired abnormalities’. The meeting was attended by 126 delegates including speakers and representatives from companies.

The distinguished list of speakers included Dennis Lo, Johan den Dunnen, Orsetta Zuffardi, Mats Nilsson, Ken Mills, Neil Avent, John Armour, Peter Campbell, Patrick Tarpey, and Hagan Bayley. Where possible we have made the presentations available in pdf format for download from this site. These can be accessed via the agenda listing.

We would like to thank all who participated for making this our most successful meeting yet – In particular the speakers for their clear and informative presentations and our sponsors (listed below) who made this meeting possible. We look forward to 2010!