[Bioperl-l] MGED meeting in Phoenix, AZ, Oct 5-8

[Steve Chervitz]

The MGED Society's annual meeting is of potential interest to anyone working
with functional genomics data sets, or interested in best practices for
analyzing and annotating their functional genomics experiments. The meeting
topic is "Next-Gen Sequencing and Translational Genomics" and as usual,
they've got a great line-up of speakers (included below). It's in Phoenix,
AZ Oct 5-8, early registration ends on 5 Sep.   (Note that MGED has expanded
its reach beyond just microarrays.)

For more information on registration and abstract submission, go to *
http://www.mgedmeeting.org*
For hotel accommodations, go to *
http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/res?id=0903232443&key=42DE2*
Keynotes *Hank Greely*
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law
Stanford Law School

*Elaine Mardis*
Associate Professor, Genetics, Molecular Microbiology
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

*Daniel Von Hoff*
Director, Clinical Translational Research Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

Plenary Speakers:
*Steven Brenner*
Associate Professor, Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley

*Lynda Chin*
Associate Professor, Dermatology
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

*David Craig*
Associate Director, Neurogenomics Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)

*Michael Eisen*
Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California,
Berkeley

*Gad Getz*
Head of Cancer Genome Analysis at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

*Mathieu Lupien*
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

*Joanna Mountain*
Senior Director, Research
23andMe, Inc.

*Dana Pe'er*
Assistant Professor, Biology and Computer Science
Columbia University Biological Sciences

*John Quackenbush*
Professor of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard School of Public Health

*Cole Trapnell*
Ph. D. Student, Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park