Edinburgh Next Generation of Genomics Symposium 2024

We are delighted to announce the Edinburgh Next Generation of Genomics Symposium (ENGoGS24) will be held on 1st October, at the Playfair Library, Old College.

We invite early career researchers (from postgraduate students to junior PIs) working in any discipline of genomics to join us to network and showcase their latest research. ENGoGS24 will feature the work of ECRs studying human, animal, plant, microbe, and ecosystem genomics and bring together those using genomic technology or genome information to connect and collaborate across campuses and disciplines.

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Sponsorship

This symposium is sponsored by:

PacBio - https://www.pacb.com (external website)

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Illumina - https://www.illumina.com (external website)

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Programme

09:30 Tim Aitman (IGC) – Introduction and Welcome

 

09:35 Opening Speaker - Kenny Baillie (IRR) - Integrating biological knowledge with genomics data

 

10:00 Session 1 

Devin Bendixsen (IGC) - Mapping the mutational landscape of malignant pleural mesothelioma via uniform re-analysis of published patient cohorts

Shipra Bhatia (IGC) - Unravelling the cell-type specific roles of disease-associated mutations in the ‘noncoding regulatory genome’

Jessica Powell (The Roslin Institute) - Identifying functional genomic variants and genes associated with Theileria infection in cattle

Michael Nicholson (School of Mathematics) - DNA lesion bypass and the stochastic dynamics of transcription coupled repair

 

11:00 Break

 

11:30 Session 2

Audrey Martin (The Roslin Institute) - Supporting the implementation of genomic selection in a guide dogs’ population using simulation

Christina Rochus (The Roslin Institute) - Using genomic data to estimate dominance variance and inbreeding depression in a local sheep breed

Ismail Ozkaraca (IGC) - Temporal Orderings of Genomic Features for Patient Stratification: Applied to High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer 

 

12:15 Keynote speaker – Robb Hollis (IGC) – Ovarian Carcinosarcoma: A Tale of Two Tumours?

 

12:40 Lunch and Posters

 

14:10 Session 3

Matthew Swaffer (WCCB) - RNA polymerase II dynamics and mRNA stability feedback scale mRNA amounts with cell size

Daria Iakovleva (IRR) - Investigating the role of ASXLs in brain development

Robert Mason (IMPS) - N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid modulates the immune inducible transcriptome of Arabidopsis thaliana through chromatin remodelling transcription factors

Elisa Barbieri (ISCR/IRR) - OTX2 controls chromatin accessibility in formative pluripotent stem cells

 

15:05 Break

 

15:35 Session 4

Laurence Nisbet (Psychiatry) - An integrative multi-omic analysis of depression

Joshua Slaughter (Informatics) - Towards the Robust Targeted Estimation of Genetic Effects

Hong Kiat Ng (IGC/NTU LKC School of Medicine) - Epigenome-wide association study in HELIOS and Generation Scotland identifies novel markers for atopic dermatitis

Caelinn James (SRUC) - Integrating deep phenotyping and whole-genome sequencing to decipher genetic basis of feed efficiency in dairy cattle

 

16:45 Keynote speaker – Emily Clark (The Roslin Institute) – From FAANG to Fork: how highly annotated genomes can provide resources to inform future farmed animal production

 

17:10 Helen Colhoun (IGC)- Closing Remarks and prize presentation

 

17:25 Drinks reception

 

Organising Committee

ENGoGS 24 is being organised by Anum Ahmad, Shipra Bhatia, Alice Buckner, Rashi Krishna, Mosi Li, Victoria Lindsay-McGee, Bri Melchor-Castro, Eleni Papachristoforou, Natalie Ring, Barry Ryan, Lea Soler-Clavel, Daniel Toddie-Moore, Haolan Tu and Charlotte Winspear.