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

FULL AND ONE-DAY REGISTRATIONS STILL OPEN ON-LINE

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:
John Mattick Foundation Director The Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ Group Leader, Rnomics: noncoding RNA in mammalian evolution and development	RNA-Based Gene Regulation in Eukaryotic Development

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

Rob Martienssen Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Gene regulation and DNA methylation

Lance Miller Wake Forest University School of Medicine	Tell-Tale Genes: Harnessing Genomics for Breast Cancer Prognosis and Oncogene Discovery

Heather Cunliffe Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona	New molecular targets in breast cancer

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