Section outline

  • Thursday March 20

    14:00        Welcome
    Keith Harshman, Genomic Technologies Facility, Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne

    14:05-14:35    De novo assembly of Petunia using PacBio data combined with Illumina data
    Rémy Bruggmann, Department of Biology, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & University of Bern

    14:35-15:05    From phenotypes to genotypes with the human pathogen Candida glabrata
    Dominique Sanglard, Institute of Microbiology, CHUV

    15:05-15:35  Bacterial genome assembly using PacBio data
    Daniel Wüthrich, Department of Biology, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & University of Bern

    15:35 – 16:05        Coffee Break

    16:05-16:35    De novo assembly of a large plant genome with the help of PacBio reads
    Emanuel Schmid, Vital-IT, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

    16:35-17:05    Comparative DNA methylation studies in bacterial genomes
    Laurent Falquet, Department of Biology, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & University of Fribourg

    17:05-17:35    Benefits of SMRT sequencing for analysis of plant and animal genomes
    Gerrit Kuhn, Pacific Biosciences

    17:35-18:00    Conclusions and General Discussion