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The NGS field is rapidly evolving and as the technology is now more affordable and powerful, it allows researchers, clinicians and pharma to push the boundaries of what can be achieved. While old challenges of data analysis remain, new opportunities have emerged in critical areas such as whole genome sequencing, therapeutic applications and new clinical diagnostics development such as prenatal testing.

This year’s congress will take us to new grounds in discussing the latest challenges and opportunities of NGS.  The following are the highlights to the congress.

Pharma – Learn more about NGS in pharmaceutical research and development! Critical case studies and presentations on: NGS in biomarker development, whole genome sequencing and therapeutic applications.

Healthcare – NGS is revolutionising healthcare, allowing clinicians to take a more personalised approach to care. New for 2018 the congress will be looking at clinical comprehensive sequencing, improved next generation sequencing techniques in liquid biopsy and the application of NGS to healthy populations.

Academic – Hear about the latest research in the field looking at new technologies and techniques. Critical areas include advances in NGS data analysis, novel applications of NGS and future applications.

In keeping with Oxford Global’s highly successful life sciences series, an expert panel of over 50 speakers will present a full conference programme covering the topics outlined below. These topics have been compiled as a result of a comprehensive research process undertaken with our advisory board members including VPs, Directors, Senior Research Fellows and Professors from global pharmaceutical organisations and leading research institutions.

Our Congress will focus on the following key areas of research:

4^th Annual Next Generation Sequencing Congress

Day 1 Stream 1 – Exploring Emerging Trends in NGS Data Analysis & NGS Application Strategies

• Advances in bioinformatics & computational tools of NGS data analysis
• Genomics challenges in NGS data analysis
• Advances in NGS data interpretation by utilizing novel methods and tools
• Application of genomic testing in the clinic

NEW FOR 2018:  PART 2: Future Forward: Where Will Sequencing Take Us?

• Overview and analysis of future trends and tools
• NGS data analysis: standards and protocols
• Advances and alternatives in clinical diagnostics
• NEW FOR 2018: Future Forward Lightning Talks

Day 1 Stream 2 – Precision Medicine, Biomarker Development and Clinical Diagnostics

• Evaluating guidelines for using NGS in precision medicine
• Improved next generation sequencing techniques in liquid biopsy
• Comprehensive genomic profiling in the clinic
• Utilising NGS for molecular diagnostics development
• NGS in biomarker development
• Oncology and liquid biopsies
• NEW FOR 2018: Pre-natal detection testing targets

Day 2 Stream 1 – The Application of NGS in Different Therapeutic Areas

• NEW FOR 2018: NGS and healthcare providers: case studies of translation to clinical applications
• NEW FOR 2018: Long non-coding RNA as therapeutic targets
• Novel Technologies for the detection of circulating DNA
• Therapeutic case studies from the areas of:
  • Oncology
  • Neurodegenerative disease
  • NEW FOR 2018: Genomic screening for healthy individuals

Co-located with the 4th Annual Single Cell Analysis Congress

The single cell analysis field is rapidly expanding. Technology is becoming cheaper, easier to use and is allowing for more and more samples to be sequenced in parallel. Increased amounts of data have meant an influx of bioinformaticians and the kinds of tools needed to analyse single-cell data. With rare cell events potentially holding the answer to many issues in cancer, immunology, neurology and developmental biology, interest in the field has grown exponentially.

Join over 200 senior level attendees to discuss the latest challenges in the field as well as the latest developments in pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, single cell multi-omic approaches, cancer biology and spatially resolved single-cell sequencing data.

Day 1 Stream 3 – Single Cell ‘Omics Analysis: Current and Emerging Tools

• Single cell ‘omics case studies and therapeutic applications:
  • Genomics
  • Transcriptomics
  • Proteomics
  • In situ proteomics and genomics
• Using single cell analysis in clinical & diagnostic development
• NEW FOR 2018: Single cell ‘omics analysis and new-borns
• Technologies and tools
• Technologies for the analysis of genome wide information

Day 2 Stream 2 – Translation to Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications

• Case studies: oncology, neurology and immune-oncology
• Single cell diagnostic development and clinical applications
• Trends in single cell isolation, capture and purification
• Single cell analysis tools including PCR analysis technologies
• High throughput in-situ sequencing approaches
• Single cell RNA sequencing technologies and applications
  • NEW FOR 2018: Transcriptomic analysis and immuno-oncology
• NEW FOR 2018: Single-cell analysis in translational research and drug discovery

Day 2 Stream 3 – Single Cell Analysis: Overcoming Challenges

• Challenge 1: sample preparation for single cell analysis
• Challenge 2: bioinformatics:
  • Calling copy number variations
  • Single cell data-handling
• Statistical analysis of single cell data
  • NEW FOR 2018: Cluster statistical methods for single cell analysis
  • NEW FOR 2018: Computational genomics
• NEW FOR 2018: Integrating sequencing and imaging technology