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The Second Kyoto Course and Symposium on Bioinformatics for Next Generation Sequencing with Applications in Human Genetics – March 10^th-14^th, 2014

Training course:

Date: Monday, March 10^th – Wednesday, March 12^th, 2014

Venue:
Seminar Room (1st floor), South Research Bldg.,
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
53 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

Description:
The 3-day course will provide a practical introduction to analysis of next generation sequencing data from handling of raw data to applications in study of human disease. As example of analysis techniques, methods to examine exomic sequence and RNA-seq data will be covered in depth. We will illustrate the use of sequence data in combination with methods for mapping disease genes in genetic studies.

Topics:
Introduction to Human Genetics
Basics of Data Manipulation
Variant Calling and Annotation (SNV, CNV)
Statistical Tests
Methods for Complex Analysis

Course instructors:
Peter Carbonetto, University of Chicago
Richard Houlston, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Mark Lathrop, McGill University, Canada
Suzanne Leal, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Louis Letourneau, McGill University, Canada
Jacek Majewski, McGill University, Canada
Jurg Ott, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC and Rockefeller University, USA
Pak Chung Sham, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Joseph D. Terwilliger, Columbia University, USA
Daniel E. Weeks, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Attendees:
The course is aimed principally at advanced doctoral students or post-doctoral researchers who need to apply next-generation sequencing in medical studies. As places will be limited, applicants will be selected based on a description of their background and future research projects to be submitted when applying for the course.
The number of attendees will be limited up to approximately 40.

Registration fee:
1) Academic: 50,000 yen
2) Non-academic: 100,000 yen

Symposium:

Date: Thursday, March 13^th – Friday, March 14^th, 2014

Venue:
The Continental Room (3rd floor), Fortune Garden Kyoto
386-2 Ichino Funairi-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-0924, Japan

Description:
The course will be followed by 2-day symposium with invited international speakers to provide perspectives on recent advances in medical genomics. The symposium will be open to the course attendees and others from the scientific community.

Symposium speakers:
Peter Carbonetto, University of Chicago, USA
Mark Caulfield, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Richard Houlston, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Maricel G. Kann, University of Maryland, USA
Jong-Il Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
Mark Lathrop, McGill University, Canada
Suzanne Leal, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Jacek Majewski, McGill University, Canada
Fumihiko Matsuda, Kyoto University, Japan
Yukinori Okada, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Jurg Ott, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC & Rockefeller University, USA
Pak Chung Sham, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chen-Yang Shen, Taiwan Biobank, Taiwan
Shamil R. Sunyaev, Harvard University, USA
Makoto M. Taketo, Kyoto University, Japan
Joseph D. Terwilliger, Columbia University, USA
Daniel E. Weeks, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Registration:
Admission free but advanced registration is recommended.
Symposium registration

Organizers:

For inquiry:Center for Genomic Medicine, Kyoto University
ngs_course@genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp