High Throughput Biology
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
April 19 - 23, 2011
Abstract Deadline:February 18th, 2011

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Arranged by:
Edward Rubin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
and DOE Joint Genome Institute
Bing Ren, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and UCSD
Tian Xu, Yale University and Fudan University

 Review The first CSH Asia conference on High Throughput Biology in 2011

Total participants: 171

    High throughput biology approaches have had a profound impact on many fields of life sciences and promise to greatly accelerate the rate of discoveries in biomedical research in the coming decades. The most exciting developments in recent years include next-generation sequencing technologies, microfluidics, advanced microscopic imaging, mass-spectrum analysis, systems biology, and new high throughput genetics tools. The rapid progress in these technologies and their applications were captured in the first Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on “High Throughput Biology”.

    A total of 170 scientists attended the 4-day meeting, which featured 44 talks and 25 poster presentations covering a broad range of topics. Over 20% of the presenters were female scientists. Dr. Gerry Rubin, a pioneer in fly genetics, gave a keynote speech focusing on dissection of the neural circuits in the Drosophila brain using a highly innovative approach that combines high throughput genetics and fluorescent imaging technique. This is followed by eight oral presentation sessions devoted to specific themes, including single molecule sequencing, high throughput functional genomics and genome manipulations, large-scale genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolic analysis, and systems biology.

    Compared to other Cold Spring Harbor conferences, this meeting featured prominently in four aspects – (1) the next generation sequencing technologies were allowing the development of a number of new genomic methods and computational algorithms, which have greatly facilitated the understanding of gene regulatory networks in eukaryotes; (2) new single molecule analysis and microfluidic devices were allowing researchers to examine the genomic structures and transcriptome dynamics at a single cell level; (3) generation of genetic resources for mouse mutants were reported, providing a powerful tool for biomedical researchers to functionally annotate the mammalian genome; and (4) computational and mathematical approaches were discussed for analyzing biological data and imaging and dissecting biomedical problems. Additionally, the participants came from many different parts of the world, including 25 countries and regions. These not only include regions that were traditionally highly represented in the Cold Spring Harbor meetings such as US and Europe, but also nations such as South Africa, India, Singapore, China, and South Korea, where life sciences just recently began to flourish. Like in other Cold Spring Harbor conferences, this meeting also included one poster presentation session, and the best poster prize was awarded to Peter Sims from Harvard University for “Fluorogenic pyrosequencing in PDMS microreactors”. Almost all the participants expressed strong interest of having another meeting on the same topic in the near future. In summary, this conference was highly successful, characterized by a high quality scientific program and participation from an enthusiastic audience with diverse background and interests.

Keynote Speakers:
Gerald Rubin, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA

Invited Speakers:
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, Harvard Medical School, USA
Sung Hee Baek,Seoul National University, KOREA
Allan Bradley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UNITED KINGDOM
Sheng Ding, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
William Hahn, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard Medical School, USA
Nicholas Ingolia, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
Manolis Kellis, MIT, USA
X. Shirley Liu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, USA
Yanxi Liu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Huck-Hui Ng, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School, USA
Stephen Quake, University of Stanford and HHMI, USA
Kanury V S Rao,ICGEB Laboratories, INDIA
Yijun Ruan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Masaru Tomita, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Japan
Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China
Barbara Wold, California Institute of Technology, USA
Sunney Xie, Harvard University, USA
Songyang Zhou, Zhongshan University, China

The purpose of the panel discussion is, as the title suggests, to facilitate collaborations among academic and non-academic institutions in the area of high throughput biology. The topics to be discussed include:
1) policy and funding opportunities for international collaboration in systems biology.
2) bridging the gap between conventional and high throughput biological approaches.
3) enhancing collaborations between academic and non-academic institutions.

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $200-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in April 2011.

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1. The early & normal price will be available if the full payment is finished before the exact due date.
For USD participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if we could not successfully charge the full payment from your registered credit card before the deadline.
For CNY participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if our bank account could not receive your full payment by wire transfer before the deadline.

2. For Student Package registered participants, please add your roommate requirement during the online registration. Otherwise, we’ll assign you a roommate among other student participants.

3. For late registrations, your housing & registration materials may not be guaranteed since the order is usually made in advance.

4. Please inform us your request on extra day (USD 75/CNY 500 per day) and food (vegetarian, kosher…etc.) during the online registration or email us as early as possible so that we could make relevant arrangement accordingly.

5.We offer CSHA endowed student package for graduate students (student ID is required). This special offer only includes the meeting session pass. Housing, food and social activities are not included in the package.

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