AMATA 2008

High Throughput Biotechnologies Into The Future
The 8th Annual Australasian Microarray and Associated Technologies (AMATA) conference

Conference dates: November 11-14, 2008
Venue: The Dunedin Public Art Gallery, (City centre, the Octagon)

BioConductor/Limma Workshop: November 15, 2008
The University of Otago, Dunedin

The 2008 Meeting is convened by Les McNoe and held in New Zealand for the first time, in the University City of Dunedin. New Zealand is a stunning and beautiful country - and the exciting Science of this meeting matches the conference setting! (Download the Conference Flyer)

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS include:
Joe Sambrook Foundation Director Research, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	Molecular genetics of human cancer

Rebecca Doerge Director, Statistical Bioinformatics Center, Purdue University	Statistical Genomics

Rob Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Gene regulation and DNA methylation

Lance Miller The Genome Institute of Singapore	Understanding molecular and clinical aspects of carcinogenesis from a systems biology perspective

Heather Cunliffe Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona	Molecular mechanisms of breast and ovarian cancers - new candidate molecular therapeutic targets

Peter Campbell Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK	Identification of somatically acquired rearrangements in cancer using genome-wide massively parallel paired-end sequencing

PROVISIONAL TOPICS, include:
Bioinformatics Cancer Genetics CGH and copy number variation Clinical Applications Complex disease Epigenetics High throughput Plant genomics New technologies - High throughput sequencing Proteomics Systems Biology Transcriptomics