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EMBO 2003 Agenda

EMBO Practical Course on Analysis and Informatics of Microarray Data

16-22, March 2003
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

The below agenda is also available as a word document [MS-WORD 15kb] for printing purposes.

Agenda
Day 1 - Sunday 16th March
(please note that Sunday's talks are in the Sanger Institute building, room C209/210, and not in the conference centre)
14.00-15.00 Registration
15.00-16.00 Alvis Brazma, EBI (L)
"Introduction into microarray data management and analysis"
16.00-17.00 John Quackenbush, TIGR (L)
"Beyond Expression: Integrating Microrarrays with Biology"
17.00 Checking into accomodation, drinks reception
18.00 Dinner
Day 2 - Monday 17th March
09.30-10.30 Wilhelm Ansorge, EMBL-HD (L)
"Human Genome on a Chip"
10.30-10.50 Coffee Break
10.50-11.50 Alexandra Ansorge, EMBL-HD (L)
"Microarray Analysis of Fate Determination in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells"
11.50-12.30 Lunch, Tour of the Sanger Institute (starting 12.00 and 12.30)
14:00-15.40 John Quackenbush, TIGR (TUT)
"An overview of data normalization and analysis methods, with specific examples directed toward using the software that his group here at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) has developed"
15.40-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Christian Schwager, EMBL-HD (L/TUT)
"Analysis, quantitation and evaluation of DNA microarray images - demonstrated with ChipSkipper"
18.30-20.30 Dinner+presentations (10 min+disc. each)
Day 3 - Tuesday 18th March
09.30-10.30 Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley (L)
"The Bioconductor Project: Open-source Statistical Software for the Analysis of Microarray Data"
10.30-10.50 Coffee Break
10.50-12.50 Sandrine Dudoit, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley (L)
12.50-14.00 Lunch
14:00-15.00 Jurg Bahler, Sanger Institute (L)
"Genome-wide expression profiling in fission yeast"
15.00-15.40 Rolf Apweiler, EBI (L)
"In silico Proteome Analyis Resources at the EBI"
15.40-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-18.00 Ugis Sarkans, Jaak Vilo and Misha Kapushesky, EBI (L+TUT)
18.30-20.30 Dinner+presentations (10 min+disc. each)
Day 4 - Wednesday 19th March
09.30-10.30 Tom Freeman, Sanger Institute (L)
10.30-10.50 Coffee break
10.50-11.50 Janet Thornton, EBI (L)
11.50-12.50 Frank Holstege, UMC Utrecht (L)
"Analyzing transcription regulation genome-wide: normalisation"
12.50-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 Eileen Furlong, EMBL-HD (L)
"Applying microarrays to developmental biology: combining genetics and genomics"
15.00-16.00 Helen Parkinson, EBI (L)
"Microarray data annotation and ontologies"
16.00-16.20 Coffee
16.20-18.00 Philippe Rocca-Serra, EBI (TUT)
"Online submission of Microarray Data using MIAMExpress"
18.30-20.30 Dinner+presentations (10 min+disc. each)
Day 5 - Thursday 20th March
09.30-10.30 Mahesan Niranjan, University of Sheffield (L)
"Machine Learning Algorithms in the Analysis of Gene Expression Data"
10.30-10.50 Coffee break
10.50-11.50 Martina Muckenthaler, EMBL-HD (L)
"Specialized cDNA microarrays ("IronChips") for the
analysis of hereditary and acquired iron metabolism disorders"
11.50-12.50 Helen Causton, Imperial College (L)
"Analysis of Affymetrix data - some options for low level analysis"
12.50-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Bus to Cambridge
15.00-17.00 Guided tour of Cambridge
18.00 Dinner - Henry's Bar & Cafe, Quayside, Cambridge
Day 6 - Friday 21st March
09.30-10.30 Patrick Kemmeren, UMC Utrecht (L)
"Data quality assessment and functional annotation through integrated analysis of genome-scale data"
10.30-10.50 Coffee break
10.50-12.30 Jaak Vilo and Misha Kapushesky, EBI (L)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.50 Rob Andrews, Sanger Institute (L+TUT)
"Microarray production and annotation"
15.50-16.10 Coffee break
16.10-18.00 Inge Jonassen, University of Bergen (L+TUT)
"Analysis of microarray gene expression data using J-Express"
18.30-20.30 Dinner+presentations (10 min+disc. Each)
Day 7 - Saturday 22nd March
09.30-11.10 Jaak Vilo and Patrick Kemmeren, EBI (TUT)
11.10-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Johan Rung, EBI (L)
"Gene networks - construction and analysis"
12.30-13.00 Wrap-up, finish
13.00- Lunch, departure
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