2013 Illumina Scientific Summit
Dear Jonathan,
Illumina's third annual Scientific Summit will be held June 3rd through 7th in charming New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Loews Hotel. Described by a past attendee as, "an upscale Gordon Conference", the Scientific Summit is an invitation-only meeting of 120 leading scientists and thought leaders plus the Illumina executive and R&D leadership teams.
Plenary sessions will be focused on the Genetic Etiology of Cancer and Genetic Diseases, The Changing Landscape of Medical Genetics, Microbial Detection, and Epigenetics. The formal presentations will be complemented by attendee-driven discussion sessions on a variety of topics ranging from workflow bottlenecks to future applications of Next Generation Sequencing in single cells and diagnostics.
The following distinguished scientists are scheduled to speak:
Dr. Mark Adams, Scientific Director, J. Craig Venter Institute
Dr. Kenneth J. Bloom, Chief Medical Officer, Clarient
Dr. David Craig, Deputy Director of Bioinformatics, Associate Professor and Director, Neurogenomics Division, Head Neurobehavioral Research Unit, TGen
Dr. Richard Gibbs, Wofford Cain Chair in Molecular and Human Genetics, Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Professor, Programs in Translational Biology & Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. David Goldstein, Director, Duke Medical Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University
Dr. Steven Jones, Head of Bioinformatics and Associate Director, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency
Dr. Michael Katze, Professor, Microbiology, University of Washington
Dr. Jim Knowles, Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, USC
Dr. Peter Laird, Director, USC Epigenome Center, Professor of Surgery,Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, USC
Neil Miller, Director of Informatics and Software Development, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City
Dr. Steven Musser, Director, Office of Regulatory Science, FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Dr. Charles Perou, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Professor, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Dr. Jonathan Sebat, Chief, Beyster Center for Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Diseases, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego
Dr. George Weinstock, Professor of Genetics and Molecular Microbiology, Washington University
Dr. Liz Worthey, Director of Genomic Informatics, Medical College of Wisconsin
I love Illumina sequencing toys. I really do. No so impressed with the gender ratio of this meeting however. Would not have gone anyway ... but if I COULD have attended I would not have. I wonder -did they even think about whether there might be some bias here? There certainly are plenty of female candidates they could have invited. Maybe they did not invite women? Maybe all the women said no?
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