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New and Developing Technologies for Genetic Diagnostics '08 Programme

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Monday 7th July 2008

12:00 Lunch  
13:00 Welcome Nick Cross NGRL (W)
13:05 Session 1: Non- Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis  
  Chair: Nick Cross  
  00:40 Non- Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis Dennis Lo Hong Kong
  00:30 Microfluidic PCR for prenatal Research Bernhard Zimmermann Fluidigm, San Francisco, USA
  00:20 Proteomics in NIPD Neil Avent Bristol, UK
  00:20 Aneuploidy detection Susan Gammon Sequenom, San Diego, USA
15:00 Tea
15:30 Session 2: New Sequencing Technologies - Current
  
  Chair: Chris Mattocks  
  00:40 Comparison of current new sequencing technology platforms. Peter Campbell Cambridge, UK
  00:20 Diagnostic implementation of new sequencing technologies Chris Mattocks

 Salisbury UK
  00:20 Array based targeting for massively parallel sequencing Patrick Tarpey

Cambridge, UK
  00:20 Targeting by probe based circularisation Mats Nilsson

Uppsala, Sweden
17:30 Finish


Tuesday 8th July 2008

9:00 Session 3: Detection of copy number changes
  
  Chair: John Crolla  
  00:40 New arrays for structural abnormality Orsetta Zuffardi Pavia, Italy
  00:20 Typing CNVs with multiplex paralogue ratio tests John Armour Nottingham, UK
  00:20 Wessex diagnostic array design Shuwen Huang / John Crolla Salisbury UK
10:30 Coffee
11.00 Session 4: Acquired abnormalities
  
  Chair: Nick Cross  
  00:25 The MILE study: expression microarray analysis for diagnosis of leukaemia Ken Mills
 Belfast
  00:25 SNP 6.0 GeneChip arrays: Strengths and limitations for copy number analysis Manu Gupta
London

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Session 5: New sequencing technologies – The future
  
  Chair: Graham Taylor  
  00:30 Nanopore sequencing Hagan Bayley
Oxford, UK
  00:30 Helicos – true single molecule sequencing (tSMS} Avak Kahvejian Helicos Biosciences, USA

14:10 Key note  
     
  00:40 Future perspectives on genetic diagnostics Johan den Dunnen Leiden, The Netherlands
14.50 Closing remarks and discussion Graham Taylor
 Leeds, UK
15:15 Refreshments and Finish

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