Speakers

 
 

David Bentley

David Bentley
(Vice-President and Chief Scientist, Sequencing Business Unit, Illumina Inc.)
http://www.illumina.com/pages.ilmn?ID=37

The Impact of Solexa Sequencing on Genome Biology
 
 

Atul Butte

Atul Butte
(Assistant Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Atul_Butte/

Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Translational Bioinformatics
 
 

Edwin Clark

Edwin Clark
(Director, Clinical Discovery, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, USA)
http://www.bms.com/research/data/

Use of Genomic Biomarkers in Oncology Drug Development: Reduction to Practice
 
 

Ron Edgar

Ron Edgar
(Group Leader, GEO, National Center of Biotechnology Information, NIH, USA)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/

Insights and Lessons from Developing the GEO Resource at NCBI
 
 

Dusko Ehrlich

Dusko Ehrlich
(Genetique Microbienne, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France)
http://www.international.inra.fr/

MetaHIT - a European Project on the Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract
 
 

Sean Grimmond

Sean Grimmond
(Professor, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia)
http://grimmond.imb.uq.edu.au/

Sequencing the Embryonic Stem Cell Transcriptome
 
 

William Hahn

William Hahn
(Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA)
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/bbs/fac/hahn.html

Functional Genomics, Experimental Models and Cancer
 
 

Masahira Hattori

Masahira Hattori
(Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
http://www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pros07/person/masahira_hattori/masahira_hattori.htm

Sequencing of Human Gut Microbiomes
 
 

Takashi Ito

Takashi Ito
(Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
http://www.cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cb/faculty/bio_sys/itot_main.html

Unexpected Complexity of the Budding Yeast Transcriptome: Yeast as a Potential Model Organism for ncRNA Research

 
 

Philipp Kapranov

Philipp Kapranov
(Senior Scientist, Affymetrix, Inc.,USA)
http://www.affymetrix.com/transcriptome/index.affx

Genome-wide Transcription and the Implications on Genome Organization
 
 

Sunghoon Kim

Sunghoon Kim
(Professor, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea)
http://mediweb.snu.ac.kr/About/Director.php

Exploration of Protein Interfaces for Novel Drug Discovery

 
 

Ronald van Klaveren

Ronald van Klaveren
(Director, International Distribution, Agendia B.V., Netherlands)
http://www.agendia.com/en/Professional/About-MammaPrint/About-MammaPrint

Implementing Gene Expression Profiling in Clinical Practice
 
 

Jane Rogers

Jane Rogers
(The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK)
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genbiol/

The Challenges of Sequencing Genomes with New Sequencing Platforms
 
 

Allen Roses

Allen Roses
(Jefferson Pilot Professor of Neurobiology and Genetics, Director, Translational Drug Discovery Institute, Duke University, USA)

Pharmacogenetics Using Genome Wide Screening

 
 

Anton Simeonov

Anton Simeonov
(Group Leader, Bio-organic Chemistry and Assay Technologies, NIH Chemical Genomics Center, USA)
http://www.ncgc.nih.gov/about/asimeonov.html

Quantitative High-Throughput Screening at the NIH Chemical Genomics Center
 
 

Masaru Tomita

Masaru Tomita
(Director General of Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Professor of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan)
http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~mt/index-j.htm

Metabolome Science and Systems Biology
 
 

Motonari Uesugi

Motonari Uesugi
(Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University)
http://www.scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~uesugi/

Chemical Genetics of Gene Expression
 
 

Jean Weissenbach

Jean Weissenbach
(Director, Genoscope - Centre National de Séquençage, France)
http://www.genoscope.cns.fr/

Analysis of Wastewater Processing Using a Metagenomic Approach