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Title

Exploring common and rare disease genetics with GWAS and NGS

Dates

March 16-19, 2015

Lang EN Workshop language is English
Responsable de l'activité

Ioannis Xenarios

Organizer(s)

Dr. Brian Stevenson, SIB
Prof. Zoltan Kutalic, UNIL

Speakers

Aurélien Macé (Statistical Genetics group (IUMSP/CHUV/UNIL/SIB)
Brian Stevenson (Vital-IT group (SIB)
Sylvain Pradervand (LGTF/Vital-IT (UNIL/SIB))
Sina Rüeger (Statistical Genetics group (IUMSP/CHUV/UNIL/SIB)
Zoltán Kutalik (Statistical Genetics group (IUMSP/CHUV/UNIL)

Description

During this course, participants will learn about the genome-wide analysis of variation including GWAS, next generation sequencing (NGS) and how to identify and interpret variants in exomes. More information here.

Location

UNIL, Génopode

Map

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Information

Program:

  • Monday 16 March 2015

    09:00 – 11:00                         GWAS - basics (ZK)
    11:30 – 12:00                         GWAS - advanced (ZK)
    13:30 – 17:00                         Practical (ZK)

    GWAS - Basics (slides)

    GWAS - Advanced (slides)

    Practical

  • Tuesday 17 March 2015

    09:00 – 12:00                         Exome Sequencing: From DNA sample to variants file (SP)
    12:00 – 14:00                          “Social lunch”
    14:00 – 17:00                         Practical (SP + BS)

    Exome Sequencing: From DNA sample to variants file (slides)

    Practical

  • Wednesday 18 March 2015

    09:00 – 12:30                         New sequencing technologies
    14:00 – 15:30                         Variant pooling tests & CNVs (ZK + AM)
    15:30 – 17:00                         Rare variant association Practical (SR)

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    Thursday 19 March 2015

    09:00 – 10:30                         Variant annotation and prioritization (part 1) (BS)
    11:00 – 12:30                         Variant annotation and prioritization (part 2) (BS)
    14:00 – 17:00                         Practical (BS + SP)

Expenses

Reimbursement: StarOmics PhD students are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class) and meals. Please send the original tickets (no copies, except for the general abonnement) and receipts with the reimbursement form to Corinne Dentan. If you are not a CUSO PhD student: You will be billed for the course (CHF 100.-).

Registration

Deadline for registration and cancellation is set to the 6th of March 2015.

 

CUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account. 

External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at top of page and the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO").

Places

30

Deadline for registration 06.03.2015
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