NorthernBUG 6

General

NorthernBUG 6 will be held at the University of Leeds on Friday 24th January 2020.

Day Overview

Time Event Information
9:30-10:00 Morning Registration Workshop registration and refreshments
10:00-12:00 ChIP-seq Workshop (optional) ChIP-seq analysis processes: pipelines and pitfalls (Dr Ian Donaldson; Manchester), Developing your own peaky blinders (Dr Iros Barozzi; Imperial)
12:00-13:00 Lunch, Afternoon-Registration and Posters Additional: Coding-clinic
13:00-14:25 Research in progress talks 12 minute talks, 3 mins questions
14:25-15:00 Refreshment break and posters  
15:00-16:00 Past and Future Work Success stories and Grant opportunities
16:00 Pub Pub science… at The Faversham pub

NorthernBUG is a Genetics Society meeting funded as a sectional interest group, with additional funding from The Leeds Industry Academy and Leeds OMICS. It is a user group not a conference so the format will be a little more fluid than just presentations. The meeting will be composed of talks, discussions, and posters, but extended informal discussions of topics and challenges to all of us will be promoted.

Detailed Agenda

Registration is from 9:30 onwards in University House (see Location ). There will then be an optional pre-meeting workshop from 10-12 on ChIP-seq analysis. Main arrival, refreshments, and lunch from 12.

Welcome

Time Speaker Affiliation Career stage Talk Title
13:00-13:10 David Westhead University of Leeds Professor Welcome to Leeds and NBUG 6

Research in Progress Talks

12 minute talks with 3 minutes of questions

Time Speaker Affiliation Career stage Talk Title
13:10-13:25 Haeyam Taiy University of Huddersfield Student European distribution of Borrelia, hantaviruses, ticks and other Apodemus mice-associated organisms based on carryover DNA sequences in RAD-seq data
13:25-13:40 Isabel Birds University of Leeds Student Understanding the translation potential and evolution of cytoplasmic long non-coding RNA
13:40-13:55 Alexander Predeus University of Liverpool Postdoc or researcher Bacterial GWAS: lessons learned working on 10,000 Salmonella genomes
13:55-14:10 Huda Alfardus University of Leeds Postdoc or researcher Discovering early markers of diabetic vascular disease
14:10-14:25 Mudassar Iqbal University of Manchester Principal Investigator SCENIC and beyond

Past and Future Work Talks

12 minute talks with 3 minutes of questions

Time Speaker Affiliation Career stage Talk Title
15:00-15:15 Alastair Droop Sanger Inst & AD Bioinformatics Ltd Principal Bioinformatician & Industry Essential Methods for Modern Bioinformatics (containerisation, workflow management & code repositories)
15:15-15:30 Conor Meehan University of Bradford Principal Investigator The genomic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 5 (Mycobacterium africanum West-African 1)
15:30-15:45 Luisa Cutillo University of Leeds Lecturer Networks: Past and Future
15:45-16:00 Jarek Bryk University of Huddersfield Principal Investigator 70 years of genetic variation in Apodemus mice: a grant idea

Posters

Name Affiliation Career stage Poster Title
Alidivinas Prusokas Newcastle University Student Metagenomic-enabled discovery of the plant virome
David Orr University of Leeds Student De novo genome assembly of the Caspian seal (Pusa caspica)
Euan McDonnell University of Leeds Student Dysregulation of ncRNA Gene Regulatory Networks During Lytic Reactivation of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus
Haeyam Taiy University of Huddersfield Student European distribution of Borrelia, hantaviruses, ticks and other Apodemus mice-associated organisms based on carryover DNA sequences in RAD-seq data
Sam Haldenby University of Liverpool Postdoc or researcher Campype: A large-scale bacterial isolate collection analysis pipeline
Shoaib Ali University of Leeds Student Deconvoluting cell type signatures in primary and recurrent glioblastoma tumours

Location

NBUG 6 will be held in University House on the University of Leeds Campus. For detailed instructions about getting to the site, including information on public transport options please see the directions.pdf document.

Sponsors

Leeds OMICS

Leeds Industry Engagement Academy

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