2nd Annual NGS Asia Congress, Oct 1st & 2nd 2012, Singapore

[RossMcIvor]

The 2nd Annual Next Generation Sequencing Asia Congress is to be held on the 1st and 2nd of October in Singapore. Over the 2 days, the conference will provide an overview of the current options of next-generation sequencing platforms, technologies, applications and the newest computational tools for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data and analytical genomics as well as overcoming data management problems.

The event will attract over 200 senior-level decision makers working in areas such as next generation sequencing, analytical genomics, computational biology, oncology, RNA profiling, molecular genomics, biomarkers, bioinformatics & data management and clinical & diagnostics development from countries such as China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Taiwan, S.Korea, Hong Kong & surrounding countries. This prestigious event provides a forum for practitioners and researchers to learn more about key solutions being provided to their industry, analysis of current technologies, network with their peers and address key industry concerns through a series of cutting edge conference presentations in a professional yet relaxed environment.

This year's speakers include:
Touati Benoukraf - Research Fellow, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Centre for Translational Medicine National University of Singapore
Shawn Burgess - Developmental Genomics Section, Genome Technology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
Raffaele Calogero - Professor, Bioinformatics and Genomics Unit, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino
Ian Campbell - Associate Professor, Head, VBCRC Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Centre for Cancer Genomics and Predictive Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Swaine Chen - Senior Research Scientist, Infectious Diseases Group, National University of Singapore and GIS
Jung Kyoon Choi - Professor, Dept. Bio and Brain Engineering, Computational Genomics Laboratory, KAIST, Korea & Principal Investigator, GIS
Edwin Chong-Wing Cheung - Senior Research Scientist, GIS
Birajalaxmi Das - Scientific Officer, Low Level Radiation Studies Section, Radiation Biology & Health Sciences Division, Bio Medical Group, Bhabha Atomic Reserch Centre, India

To veiw the full list of this year's speakers click here http://www.ngsasia-congress.com/who-is-speaking/

If you would like to view the full agenda please request it here http://www.ngsasia-congress.com/down...nda-marketing/

We do still have a limited number of discounted passes available, if you would like to enquire about this year's meeting please contact me by emailing [email protected]

[taylorpe]

This is a great opportunity for people in the Asia-Pacific region to get one-stop-shop access to all the major players in hardware, software and applications, and to see and hear about what products are available and in development. There is plenty of time to organise meetings with specific suppliers during the 2 days. And the guest speaker talks give a great opportunity to see what other people are currently doing and also to network and discuss projects and possible collaborations.

The meeting is organised and run extremely well and was good value.
I went last year and thoroughly enjoyed it, and am going again this year.