The meeting will be held at The BioPark Hertfordshire,UK and has CPD registration.

This one-day meeting aims at providing the audience with a comprehensive overview and in-depth comparison of currently available research tools, including array-, bead- or massive parallel sequencing-based platforms as well as experimental considerations in relation to expression-, genomic-,and epigenetic-profiling. Illustrated by real-life examples, various internationally acknowledged speakers will provide the attendee with critical experimental design parameters. Pitfalls associated with specific technologies as well as their solution will be discussed extensively.
 This meeting has CPD approval .

The Chair will be Professor Eric F.P.M. Schoenmakers, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC) & Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences (NCMLS), Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 

The Agenda includes:

Identification of novel biomarkers by high-resolution copy number profiling and homozygosity mapping in hematologic malignancies.  Dr Roland P. Kuiper, Microarray Facility Nijmegen, Oncology Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (RUNMC) & Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences (NCMLS), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Deciphering the role of miRNAs in hypoxia by Digital Gene Expression profiling
 Dr. Ioannis Ragoussis, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, UK

Methylome analysis using array and sequencing based approaches . Professor Stephan Beck, Cancer Institute, University College London, UK

A comparison of expression profiling by deep sequencing and microarrays
Professor Johan den. Dunnen Center for Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Leiden, The Netherlands

 Use of new sequencing technologies for the annotation of cancer genomes.  Dr. Peter J. Campbell, Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK 
 

Abstracts for poster presentation only can be submitted up to two weeks before the event. Please note that there will be a best poster prize.  All accepted abstracts will be published in the meeting proceedings

If you would like to book a place at the meeting, please visit :
 www.regonline.co.uk/microarrays09