Final Schedule

Monday 22nd Sept 2008

  • Session 1: 11:00 - 12:20
    • 11:00 - 11:20 Neil Graham
      (NASC) - Evidence for neutral evolution of the transcriptome; a chip based approach.
    • 11:40 - 12:00 Alex Marshall
      (U. Nottingham) - Systems Biology of Affymetrix data.
    • 12:00 - 12:20 GenoLogics
    • 12:20 - 12:40 GeneGo
      Pathway and Network analysis of omics data.
  • lunch
  • Session 2: 13:30 - 15:00
    • 13:30 - 13:50 Agilent
      Integrated approach for gene expression and miRNA analysis within GeneSpring software.
    • 13:50 - 14:10 Ingenuity
      Ingenuity Pathways Analysis – Integration with Affymetrix Data.
    • 14:10 - 14:30 Beckman Coulter
    • 14:30 - 14:50 NuGen Technologies
      NuGEN’s Ribo-SPIA® technology: the other way to amplify your precious RNA..
  • Coffee break
  • Session 3: 15:30 - 17:00
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Affymetrix
    • 15:40 - 16:00 Richard Pearson
      (U. Manchester) - Benchmarking Differential Expression.
    • 16:00 - 16:20 Paidraig Doolan
      (NICB) Microarray profiling and target gene validation leading to more efficient production of biopharmaceuticals in CHO.
    • 16:30 - 16:50 James Hadfield
      (Cancer Research UK, CRI) - Copy Number Profiling.
  • 17:00 - Open discussion on the future format for UKAffy.
  • 19:00 (est.) Mystery Dinner Event.

Tuesday 23rd Sept 2008

  • Session 4: 09:00 - 10:30
    • 09:00 - 09:20 Andrew Harrison
      (U. Essex) - Beware of probes containing a contiguous run of four or more guanines.
    • 09:20 - 09:40 W Langdon
      (Essex) - RNAnet http://bioinformatics.essex.ac.uk/users/wlangdon/rnanet A web (firefox) based tool showing correlations between expression of human genes based on Ensembl exon definitions and Affymetrix HG-U133 2+ GEO datasets.
    • 09:40 - 10:00 UKaffy committee membership and other business.
  • Long Coffee Break - time for stands, chats and demos
  • Session 5: 11:00 - 12:30
    • 10:50 - 11:10 David Kipling
      (U. Cardiff) - Biological interpretation: Genelist versus threshold-free over-representation analysis.
    • 11:10 - 11:30 Stuart Pepper
      (PICR, Manchester) - Use of the NuGEN amplification system for amplifying small and difficult samples.
    • 11:30 - 11:50 Nathan Harmston
      (Imperial College) -Integration of copy number, gene expression and pathways to investigate the ependymoma genome.
  • lunch
  • Depart

Committee

Paul Heath (Chair for 2010 meeting)
Priya Banerjee, University College London
Rachel Butler, Oxford University
Jane Coghill, Bristol University
Sean May, Nottingham University (web)
Stuart Pepper, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research
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