The Swedish Bioinformatics Advisory Program
Grand meeting 2, 2016 (Dec 5-6)

Preparations

For the PhD students

A 10 minute (sharp) presentation with an update about your project/research. If you participated in the Grand Meeting in June 2016, include what your "Future plans" from that meeting included and to what extent you have met your plans.

For the PhD supervisors and advisors

Nothing to prepare

Practical notes

• The meeting will be at SciLifeLab Uppsala: BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, entrance C11, Navet (E10), ground floor (see map)
• All meals in the schedule are included for free, other meals are covered and organised by the participants.
• Travel and accomodation is payed and organised by the participants.
• There will be a 20-30 min walk down to the city for dinner on Monday,  so bring appropriate clothing
• Phone number (Björn Nystedt) 073-4026231

Schedule

Monday, Dec 5

Room: E10:1308/09

09:30-10.00   Registration, coffee and sandwiches

10.00-10.15   Welcome (Björn)

10.15-11.45   Project status. 10 min sharp by each PhD student. 

11.45-13.00   Lunch

13.00-15.00   Project feedback sessions.

15.00-15.15   Coffee

15.15-16.15   Project feedback sessions.

16.15-17.30   Social event

17.45-            Dinner

Tuesday, Dec 6

Room: E10:1308/09

09.00-09.15  Intro (Björn)

09.15-10.15  Mix-and-match: Personal consulting in pairs/mini-groups

10.15-10.45  Coffee

10.40-12.00  Inspirational talks

• 10X Chromium: Efficient phasing and assembly with Illumina bead-on-a-string reads. (Jessica Nordlund, NGI SciLifeLab)
• SweRef and SweFreq: A whole genome reference cohort for 1000 Swedes
• Spatial Transcriptomics: In situ global RNA profiling in plant and animal tissues (Stefania Giacomello, NBIS SciLifeLab)

12.00-13.00  Lunch

13.00-13.30  Summary and diplomas

Suggested feedback groups, Mon 13.15-16.15