jcventer@HELIX.NIH.GOV (J. Craig Venter) (09/04/90)
Following is the prelimianry agenda for the upcoming Genome Sequencing Conference II, to be held September 30-October 3, 1990, at the Hyatt Regency, Hilton Head, South Carolina. A limited number of places are still available forattendees. We also have limited space for companies who wish to exhibit. If you would be interested in further information, contact Susan Wallace, Conference Administrator, at (301) 480-0634 or via internet at jcventer@helix.nih.gov. GENOME SEQUENCING CONFERENCE II Chairmen: J. Craig Venter (NIH) and W. Gilbert (Harvard) Rapporteur: Robert Cook-Deegan (NIH) PRELIMINARY AGENDA (Final agenda will be available at the conference) Sunday, September 30, 1990 7:00-10:00 p.m. Registration and Opening Reception Monday, October 1, 1990 7:30-8:25 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:25-8:30 Welcoming Remarks J.C. Venter (NIH) W. Gilbert (Harvard) 8:30-9:00 Introductory Remarks E. Jordan (NIH) D. Galas (DOE) 9:00-12:20 Results from Large Scale Sequencing Projects Chair: J.C. Venter (NIH) and W. Gilbert (Harvard U.) 9:00-9:25 The Human Genome Project: J. Watson (NIH) Sequencing Goals-5 year plan The Importance of Test Projects 9:25-10:00 The C. elegens Genome J. Sulston (MRC) R. Waterston (Wash U) 10:00-10:25 Micoplasma Genome W. Gilbert (Harvard) 10:25-10:40 Coffee Break 10:40-11:05 T-Cell Receptor Domains L. Hood (CalTech) 11:05-11:30 Human Brain cDNA Project and Human J.C. Venter 19q Sequencing Collaboration (NIH) 11:30-11:55 Human Chromosome 4p16.3 W.R. McCombie (NIH) 11:55-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:30 Results from Large Scale Sequencing Projects (Continued) 1:30-1:55 E. Coli Genome F. Blattner (Wisconsin) 1:55-2:20 E. Coli Genome G. Church (Harvard) 2:20-2:55 TBA D. Cohen (CEPH) 2:55-3:20 Yeast Chromosome B. Barrell (MRC) 3:20-4:00 Panel Discussion Chairs and Speakers 3:45-6:30 Poster Session 7:00 Dinner Tuesday, October 2, 1990 8:30-12:10 Hardware and Software: Similarity Searches and Sequence Assembly Chairs: C. Burks (Los Alamos) and M. Kanehisa (Kyoto U.) 8:30-8:55 FDF Technology C. Zamudio (ABI) 8:55-9:20 New Chip Design T. Hunkapiller (CalTech) 9:20-9:45 DAP Technology A. Coulson (Edinburgh) 9:45-10:10 Algorithms on the Connection Machine R. Jones (Thinking Mach) 10:10-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-10:55 Sequence Assembly/Blast E. Myers (U. of Arizona) 10:55-11:20 Suffix Tree Applications to P. Powell Sequence Searching (U. of Minn) 11:20-11:45 A New Approach to Sequence Assembly G. Church (Cornell) 11:45-12:10 Detecting Coding Regions C. Fields (CRL) 12:10-12:35 Required Software Solutions for A. Kerlavage Sequence Assembly and Analysis (NIH) 12:35-1:45 Lunch 1:45-5:00 Errors and Ambiguities in Sequence Data Chair: E. Chen (Genetech) and M. Pearson (DuPont) 1:45-2:10 General Overview of Problems at E. Chen all Stages (Genentech) From Experiment to Database 2:10-2:35 Sequence Validation P. Gilna (GenBank) 2:35-3:00 Post Facto Analysis of Data in S. Krawetz Databases to Determine Error Rates (Wayne St.) Between Labs 3:00-3:15 Coffee Break 3:15-3:40 Anaysis of Sources of Sequencing Errors D. States (NIH) 3:40-4:05 Sequencing Errors TBA 4:05-5:00 Panel Discussion Chairs and Speakers 6:00-7:30 Buffet Dinner 7:30-9:00 Workshops Wednesday, October 3, 1990 8:30-12:20 New Methods Chair: L. Hood (CalTech) and C. Cantor (DOE) 8:30-8:55 New Vectors P. Youderian (CIBR) 8:55-9:20 Creating Cosmid Contigs D. McElligott (Salk Inst) 9:20-9:45 Automated Cosmid Mapping A. Carrano (LANL) 9:45-10:10 Automated Solid Phase and R. Cathcart Micro Sequencing (ABI) 10:10-10:25 Coffee Break 10:25-10:50 Mass Spectrometry T. Brennan (Genomyx) 10:50-11:15 Resonance Ionization Mass Spectrometry B. Jacobson Using Stable Isotopes (ORNL) 11:15-11:40 Sequencing Using Reusable Libraries of W. Studier (BNL) Oligonucleotide Primers 11:40-12:05 DNA Sequencing by Hybridization: R. Crkvenjakov First 100 Bases Ready by a Non-Gel Method (IMGGI) 12:05-12:30 Towards Sequencing Several Kb Long L. Ulanovsky Fragments by DNA Trapping (Harvard) Electrophoresis 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-5:10 PCR Sequencing Chair: C.T. Caskey (Baylor) 2:00-2:25 Introduction K. Mullis (La Jolla, CA) 2:25-2:50 Strategies for Full Automation of L. McBride (ABI) DNA Sequencing 2:50-3:15 Automated Solid Phase Sequencing of M. Uhlen Plasmid and Genomic DNA (Royal Inst) 3:15-3:30 Coffee Break 3:30-3:55 Diagnostic Sequencing R. Gibbs (Baylor) 3:55-4:20 New Reagents for Mapping, Sequencing TBA and Therapeutics 4:20-4:45 Review of DNA Polymerase for Sequencing TBA and PCR 6:30 Conference Dinner Keynote Speaker: TBA