15th International Conference on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis (HGV2014)

Please note the new attendance policies:
– APPLICANTS NO LONGER NEED SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT TO REGISTER FOR THIS MEETING
– MULTIPLE NAMED AUTHORS CAN REGISTER AND SUBMIT THE SAME ABSTRACT
– TO REFLECT THESE CHANGES, THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, 27 JULY 2014

Application and Abstract Deadline: 1st June 2014

HGV2014 will bring together approximately 180 delegates (selected on the basis of their abstract submission) in a workshop-style atmosphere, with 25 internationally recognized speakers, in the Culloden Estate and Spa in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 17th – 19th September 2014.

Scientific topics include:
• Clinical NGS (including cancer genomics and rare disease diagnosis)
• Epigenomic variation (including that found in the single cell)
• Large scale population studies of human disease
• Stratified and Personalised medicine
• Data and knowledge sharing/discovery (including the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health)
• Biomedical informatics
• Genomic evolution
• Genomic technology advances
• Human mosaicism & aging

Confirmed speakers include:
Ido Amit, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Dan Bradley, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Anthony Brookes, University of Leicester, UK
Timothy Caulfield, University of Alberta, Canada
Stephen Chanock, National Cancer Institute, USA
Federica Di Nicolantonio, University of Torino, Italy
Christine Eng, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Ada Hamosh, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Pui-Yan Kwok, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Mark Lawler, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Charles Lee, Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, USA
Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium
Cynthia Powell, University of North Carolina, USA
Naznen Rahman, Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Peter Robinson, Humboldt University, Germany
Manuel Salto Tellez, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Stephen Sherry, National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
Lillian Siu, University of Toronto, Canada
Lou Staudt, National Cancer Institute, USA
Charles Swanton, London Research Institute, UK
Thierry Voet, University of Leuven, Belgium
Barbara Wold, Caltech, USA

This residential Conference provides opportunities for interactions with an unrivalled international faculty in an environment which promotes discussion and consideration of the key technologies and advances that will inform the development of this important discipline over the coming years.