AMATA 2009 Program

This program is still subject to change.

Sunday 10:50 Bus departs Sydney Airport
18th October 11:00 Trade setup (Meeting Room)
11:00 - 14:00 Registration
13:45 - 14:00 Welcome
14:00 - 14:50 Greg Gibson Geographical genomics, canalization, and the origins of human disease
14:50 - 15:20 Carsten Kulheim Combining next generation high throughput sequencing and population genomics
15:20 - 15:40 Peter Bundock Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in sugarcane for gene mapping using 454 sequencing
15:40 - 16:00 Vicky Cho Measuring inter-individual variation in gene expression in monoamine neurotransmitter pathway genes
16:00 - 16:30 Afternoon Tea
16:30 - 17:20 Stephan Schuster Genomics of extinct and endangered species
17:20 - 17:50 Izhak Haviv Massively parallel sequencing of epigenomic and functional genomic landscapes
17:50 - 18:10 Petra Souter The transcriptome of an adult coral and its symbiotic zooxanthellae characterized using 454 pyrosequencing
18:10 - 18:30 Jeremy Shearman Identifying cause of Cerebellar Abiotrophy in Australian Kelpie dogs using SNP arrays, Nimblegen sequence capture arrays and 454 sequencing
18:30 - 19:30 Mixer

Monday 7:00 Trade Setup (Ballroom)
19th October 7:30 Registration desk open
8:30 - 8:50 Anthony Beckhouse Widespread alternate transcription in human monocyte derived macrophages
8:50 - 9:20 Marcel Dinger Beyond the exome: Re-interpretation of genome-wide association studies using an empirically-based annotation of the noncoding transcriptome
9:20 - 9:40 Nicole Cloonan Sequencing the transcriptional complexity of small rnas
9:40 - 10:30 Patrick Brown The dark matter of biological regulation
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:50 Martha Bulyk High-resolution DNA binding specificity profiles of transcription factors and cis regulatory codes in DNA
11:50 - 12:20 Richard Pearson The role of basic krüppel-like factor (Klf3) in b-lymphocyte development and tumorigenesis
12:20 - 12:40 William Ritchie Bioinformatics of high throughput RNA data
12:40 - 13:00 Oscar Junhong Luo Systematic discovery of gene regulation networks from genome-wide transcription factor binding motif data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:50 Muller Fabbri Title TBA
14:50 - 15:10 David Humphreys Small RNA profiling of the HL-1 cardiomyocyte cell line using next generation sequencing
15:10 - 15:30 Jean Yang Identification of miRNA regulatory modules and their targets using matched miRNA-mRNA data
15:30 - 15:50 Lorey Smith A large scale RNAi screen for regulators of scribble function in cancer reveals the mammalian cell polarity network as a novel regulator of Ras oncogenic function
15:50 - 16:10 Gavin Huttley The influence of epigenetic state on genetic variation
16:10 - 16:40 Afternoon Tea
16:40 - 17:00 Caroline Kerr Comparative global gene expression patterns of colonic epithelium in azoxymethane-induced carcinogenesis in rats and colorectal cancer in humans
17:00 - 17:20 Briony Jack Transcription factor GATA2 in the repression of adipogenesis
17:20 - 17:40 Matthew Wakefield RNA-seq enables whole genome allele specific expression
17:45 - 19:45 Poster Session

Tuesday 8:30 - 8:50 Guoji Guo Single cell quantitative gene expression analysis from zygote to blastocyst
20th October 8:50 - 9:20 John Pimanda Differential regulation of tissue specific gene expression by modular assembly of enhancers
9:20 - 9:40 Geoff Morton Data mining the genetics of leukemia
9:40 - 10:30 Javed Khan Integrated analysis of the cancer genome
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea
11:00 - 11:50 Vishy Iyer Analyzing genome-wide transcription and chromatin with microarrays and next-generation sequencing
11:50 - 12:20 Yijun Ruan Chia-PET, A whole-genome approach to study long-range chromatin interactions in mammalian cells
12:20 - 12:40 Nadia Whitelaw Ppie: a modifier of epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse identified by sequence capture and 454 Sequencing
12:40 - 13:00 Tom Whitington Chip-seq chromatin modification data facilitates accurate prediction of tissue-specific transcription factor binding sites
13:00 - 13:20 Alister Funnell Investigating the erythroid role of the transcription factor Klf3
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
13:45 - 14:30 Martin Goldberg Affymetrix' Next Generation Automated Genotyping Platform
14:00 - 19:00 Free Time
19:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 8:30 - 8:50 Belinda Phipson Genuine association of gene expression profiles
21st October 8:50 - 9:20 Romaric Bouveret Building transcriptional regulatory networks for heart development
9:20 - 9:40 David Fung Modeling the molecular cell system of hepatocellular carcinoma as an actor-semiotic network
9:40 - 10:30 Olga Troyanskaya Understanding tissue-specific gene expression and disease from large microarray compendia
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea & AMATA AGM
11:00 - 11:50 David Gresham Genetic control of growth and survival
11:50 - 12:20 Michal Janitz Integrated analysis of genomic regulatory regions using cell arrays and next-generation sequencing
12:20 - 12:40 Thomas Gonda Development of high-throughput, high content, functional screening: ARVEC
12:40 - 13:00 Anthony Bourneman Characterisation of intra-specific genomic diversity in industrial microorganisms by whole-genome next-generation sequencing
13:00 - 13:15 Conference Closing
13:30 Bus departs for Sydney Airport
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:30 - 18:30 Workshops 1 & 2
16:10 - 16:40 Afternoon Tea

Thursday 9:00 - 13:00 Workshops 3 & 4
22nd October 10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

Please note: The pre-AGM AMATA Executive gathering is now scheduled for Monday night. The AGM is now on Wednesday morning. The post-AGM AMATA Executive meeting has yet to be scheduled.