Title |
Exploring common and rare disease genetics with GWAS and NGS
|
Dates |
March 16-19, 2015 |
Lang |
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 |
Map
|
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) -
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 |