Course 2018

The 6th Kyoto Course on Bioinformatics for Genomic Medicine
Course on Computational Genomics – October 2nd-5th, 2018 Preliminary Schedule

Day 1 (October 2)

9:00 – 9:15 Opening remarks & course overviews Fumihiko Matsuda & Mark Lathrop

9:15 – 10:45 Lecture: Introduction to human genetics Joseph D. Terwilliger

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 Lecture: Advances in SNP-array based genome-wide association study (GWAS)

Yoichiro Kamatani

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 – 15:15 Lecture: The UK Biobank resource for genetic epidemiology Jemma Hopewell

15:15 – 17:15 Practical: Genome-wide association studies Yoichiro Kamatani

Day 2 (October 3)

9:00 – 11:00 Lecture: Recent advances in NGS technologies Ioannis Ragoussis

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:15 Lecture: De novo assembling of human genomes Changhoon Kim

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 14:45 Lecture: Understanding NGS data analysis workflow Mathieu Bourgey

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 17:00 Practical: NGS data manipulation & variant calling (SNV, CNV) Mathieu Bourgey

Day 3 (October 4)

9:00 – 10:30 Lecture: Cloud based tools for NGS analysis Mario Foglio

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 11:30 Lecture: GWAS in the age of NGS Yukinori Okada

11:30 – 12:15 Lecture: Human population genetics Ryan Hernandez

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 14:45 Practical: Human population genetics Ryan Hernandez

14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 17:30 Practical: Human population genetics Ryan Hernandez

Day 4 (October 5)

9:00 – 10:00 Lecture: Principles of Mendelian randomization Kaitlin Wade

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 – 12:45 Practical: Mendelian randomization Kaitlin Wade

12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

13:45 – 14:45 Lecture: Analysis of RNA-seq and epigenetic data Guillaume Bourque

14:45 – 15:45 Lecture: Applications to the analysis of cancer Nada Jabado