DIMACS Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing: Making the most of what you read

August 25, 2010
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Alexander Schliep, Rutgers University, schliep at cs.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, August 25, 2010	 

 8:30 -  9:25  Registration and Coffee/Breakfast	

 9:25 -  9:30  Welcome
               Gene Fiorini, DIMACS Associate Director	

 9:30 - 10:05  Single-cell genomes reveal the dynamic nature of the
               marine environment
               Dana Price, SEBS, Rutgers

10:05 - 10:40  From Millions to One: De Novo Assembly
	       Ariella Sasson, BioMaPS, Rutgers

10:40 - 11:15  Deciphering the complicated history of eukaryote evolution using phylogenomics
	       Cheong Xin Chan, SEBS, Rutgers

11:15 - 11:30  Coffee	 

11:30 - 12:05  Polymorphic Marker Discovery in Strawberry: 
               An Application of Next-Gen Sequencing
	       Anna Zdepski, Waksman Institute, Rutgers

12:05 - 12:40  Statistical mechanics and next-generation sequence assembly
	       Adel Dayarian, Physics, Rutgers

12:40 -  1:30  Lunch	 

 1:30 -  2:05  Keynote Speaker: Kasper Daniel Hansen, Johns Hopkins
               Aspects of RNA-Seq analysis: computations, variance and bias

 2:05 -  2:40  Open

 2:40 -  3:15  Life Complexity and Data Processing: an experience of a
               transversal master diploma in Tunisia
	       Slimane Ben Miled, University of Tunis el Manar

 3:15 -  3:30  Coffee	 

 3:30 -  4:00  Round Table Discussion
               Educational Boundary between Biology and Bioinformatics

 4:00	       Adjourn	

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