| Day 1 Thursday 21st June 2007 | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Coffee and Registration |
| 10:30 - 10:35 | Welcome from the Steering Committee |
| 10:35 - 12:30 | Session 1 |
| 10:35 - 11:05 | SNPs and Genes: mining the paediatric brain tumour genome to identify novel markers Vikki Rand, Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre, University of Nottingham |
| 11:05 - 11:35 | Exon Array Data QC and Validation by qPCR Stuart Pepper, CR-UK, PICR, Manchester |
| 11:35 - 12:05 | Genome-wide Mapping of Estrogen Receptor binding and activity Jason Carroll, CR-UK, Cambridge Research Institute |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Affymetrix Presentation Fiona Brew, Affymetrix |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Session 2 |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Agilent Software Presentation Neil Ward, Agilent |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Agilent Chip-on-chip Platform Jim Collins, Agilent R&D Group Manager, Genomics |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Illumina Presentation Fahim Amini, Illumina |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | siRNAs and miRNAs: Understanding gene function and regulation Stephanie Brooking, Ambion |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Applied Biosystems Presentation John Sherlock |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break for coffee |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Session 3 |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Deciphering c-Myc Regulated Gene Networks in Two Distinct Tissues Sam Robson, University of Warwick |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Exon Array Analysis using Exonmap Sian Dibben, CR-UK, PICR, Manchester |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | The use of mapping arrays for the detection of allelic imbalance in childhood leukaemia Andy Hall, Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Nottingham |
| 17:00 - | UKAffy only session |
| 20:00 - | Dinner at Tante Zoes Restaurant |
| Day 2 -- Friday 22nd June 2007 | |
| 09:00 - 11:00 | Session 1 |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | New Users Q+A Session |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | Methylation and Tiling Arrays James Flanagan, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | ArrayAssist™ Exon: Stratagene Microarray Analysis Software Delphine Pages, Technical Services Scientist, Stratagene Europe |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Break for coffee |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Partek Software Presentation Donald J. Meyer, Partek |
| 11:00 - 12:20 | Session 2 |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Making sense of microarray gene lists using text mining and over-representation analysis Hui Sun Leong, Department of Pathology, Cardiff University |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Analysis of microRNA profiling using Invitrogen NCode™ Spotted Arrays Tony Brooks, CSC/IC Microarray Centre, Hammersmith Hospital |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Identifying Tissue Specific Alternative Exon Splicing and Differential Gene Expression Sonia Shah, Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics, UCL |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Why does my array result not match my qPCR result? Onno Bakker, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam |
| 12.20 - | Closing Remarks |
Last updated 12th June 2007
