August 26	Cuernavaca	Latin America	View Agenda
August 27	Mexico City (UNAM)	Latin America	View Agenda
August 28	Mexico City (Inmegen)	Latin America	View Agenda
August 31	Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil	Latin America	View Agenda

The Impressive Increase in Throughput of the Illumina Genome Analyzer, as Seen from an User Perspective	Laurent Farinelli, Ph.D. Fasteris
Deep Sequencing of Small RNAs: A Generic Method for Diagnosis, Discovery and Sequencing of Viruses	Jan Kreuze, Ph.D. International Potato Center (CIP)
Gene Expression Profiling and Micro RNA Discovery in Plants Using Illumina's Short-Read Sequencing Platform	Georgios Pappas, Ph.D. EMBRAPA
Genome-wide SNP Detection of Plasmodium Vivax Isolates from Peruvian Patients Reveals Highly Polymorphic Genes and Population Genetic Structures	Scott Westenberger, Ph.D. The Scripps Research Institute

July 31	San Diego	North America	View Agenda
August 3	Madison	North America	View Agenda
August 4	New York	North America	View Agenda
August 5	Richmond	North America	View Agenda
August 6	Research Triangle Park	North America	View Agenda

Detecting Chimeric Transcripts Using Massively Parallel Transcriptome Sequencing	Brent Applegate Illumina
An Overview of Illumina’s DNA Analysis Products- From Genotyping to CNV	Jasmine Pritchard Illumina
Unique Applications with VeraCode Digital Microbeads from Research to Diagnostics	Naomi O’Grady Illumina
The New Genome AnalyzerIIx: Delivering More Data, Faster, and Easier Than Ever Before	Rob Tarbox Illumina
Complex Diseases. A Mouthful of Scope. The Power of Illumina Platforms	Annette Lee, Ph.D. The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore
Connecting the Dots: Dissecting the Cellular Circuitry of a Mouse Single Gene Knockout Embryonic Stem Cell Line Using a Combination of Transcriptional Analysis, Bioinformatics, and Drug Screening	Chris Cheadle, Ph.D. The John Hopkins University
Genotyping Diary Cattle Samples with Infinium BovSNP50 BeadChips and VeraCode Universal Oligo Beads	Michael Cowan, Ph.D. Genetic Visions
Genome Center Rebels: Analyzing Next-Gen Outside the Machine	Ryan Richt Cofactor Genomics
Experience with the Human 1M and HumanMenthylation27 BeadChips in Human and Non-Human Primates	Timothy Howard, Ph.D. Wake Forest University Center for Human Genetics
Whole-Genome Gene Expression Profiling of Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Samples: an EA Case Study using Illumina WG-DASL	Wendell Jones, Ph.D. Expression Analysis

July 6	Munich	Europe	View Agenda
July 7	Berlin	Europe	View Agenda
July 8	Paris	Europe	View Agenda
July 9	Edinburgh	Europe	View Agenda
July 10	London	Europe	View Agenda

Partnering with Illumina: Systems, Services and our CSPro Program	Tanya Boyaniwsky Illumina
The New Genome Analyzer IIx: Delivering More Data, Faster and Easier Than Ever Before	Jeremy Preston Illumina
Illumina’s Expression and Regulation Portfolio on Microarrays and Sequencing	Chris Streck Illumina
Combined Microarray-Based Analyses in Acute Myeloid Leukemia: From Biological Research to Clinical Applications	Philippe Guardiola, Ph.D. Transcriptome & Epigenomics Angers University Hospital
Quality and Use of Genome-wide Assays for Methylation and RNA Analysis	Bernhard Korn, Ph.D. DKFZ
Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology	Hans Lehrach, Ph.D. MPI Berlin
ArcOGEN, a Large-Scale GWAS for Osteoarthritis	John Loughlin, Ph.D. Newcastle University
A Genome-wide Association Study of Ovarian Cancer	Paul Pharoah, Ph.D. University of Cambridge
Detection of Tumor-Specific Somatic Mutations by Transcriptome Sequencing of a Cytogenetically Normal Acute Myeloid Leukemia	Tim Strom, Ph.D. Helmholtz

June 15	Oslo	Europe	View Agenda
June 16	Stockholm	Europe	View Agenda
June 17	Leiden	Europe	View Agenda
June 18	Milan	Europe	View Agenda
June 19	Madrid	Europe	View Agenda

An Overview of Illumina’s Expression and Regulation Portfolio (pdf)	Shawn Baker, Ph.D. Illumina
Partnering with Illumina: Systems, Services and our CSPro Program (pdf)	Tanya Boyaniwsky Illumina
The Use of the BeadXpress Genotyping Platform in Disease Association Studies (pdf)	Mònica Bayés, Ph.D. Centro de Regulacio Genomica
Applications of Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Technology for Grape Genomics (pdf)	Federica Cattonaro, Ph.D. Applied Genomics
Analyzing Genomes and Transcriptomes Using Illumina Sequencing (pdf)	Heinz Himmeldbaur, Ph.D. CRG Barcelona
BeadXpress SNP Genotyping for Fine Mapping Eggshell Quality Traits in Chicken (pdf)	Terhi Iso-Touru, Ph.D. MTT
Analysis of Illumina Gene Expression Microarray Data (pdf)	Asta Laiho, Ph.D. Turku University
Mixed Integrated Genomic Analysis of Human Osteosarcomas (pdf)	Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda, Ph.D. Radium Hospital
Mixed Copy Number Variations: Untangling the Complexity of Mendelian and Complex Diseases (pdf)	Federica Torri, Ph.D. UNIMI

May 1	Los Angeles	North America	View Agenda
May 4	Calgary	North America	View Agenda
May 6	Pittsburgh	North America	View Agenda
May 7	Bethesda	North America	View Agenda
May 8	Miami	North America	View Agenda

An Overview of Illumina's DNA Analysis Products—From Genotyping to CNV (pdf)	Jennifer Stone, Ph.D. Illumina
Genome-Wide Association for Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease (LOAD) Confirms Risk Locus on Chromosome 12 (pdf)	Gary Beecham, Ph.D. Miami Institute for Human Genomics
Genome-Wide Association Studies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (pdf)	Richard Duerr, M.D. University of Pittsburgh
ChIP-Sequencing: Centromeres and Circadian Rhythms (pdf)	Michael Freitag, Ph.D. Oregon State University
Utilizing Illumina High-Throughput Sequencing Technology to Gain Insights into Small RNA Biogenesis and Function (pdf)	Brian Gregory, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Sequencing Cancer Genomes and Transcriptomes (pdf)	Richard Moore, Ph.D. BC Cancer Agency
Pharmacogenomics of Severe Adverse Drug Reactions (pdf)	Colin Ross, Ph.D. University of British Columbia
Mixed Panel Development of Genetic Integrity Testing of Rodent Animal Models (pdf)	Jamie Rusconi, Ph.D. Taconic

June 9	North Carolina	North America	View Agenda
June 11	New York	North America	View Agenda
June 22	Seattle	North America	View Agenda
June 24	Emeryville	North America	View Agenda

Overview of Illumina’s VeraCode Technology: From Research to Diagnostics	Illumina VeraCode Presentation
A Method for Rapid, Targeted CNV Genotyping Identifies Rare Variants Associated with Neurocognitive Disease	Greg Cooper, Ph.D. University of Washington
Customized Strategies for Targeted Genotyping, Expression and Methylation Studies in Human, Mitochondrial and Non-Human Genomes	Tera Eerkes, Ph.D. iGenix
Utilization of the GoldenGate Assay for Veracode in Quality Control and Driving Innovation	Diane Leong, Ph.D. Genentech, Inc
Using the BeadXpress to Genotype Earth’s Diversity	Charles Nicolet, Ph.D. UC Davis
Multiple Approaches to Focused SNP Genotyping using Illumina’s BeadXpress at CynerGene	Lady Ung, Ph.D. CynerGene

August 3	Madison	North America	View Agenda
August 6	RTP	North America	View Agenda

GoldenGate Genotyping: An Evolution in Low and Mid Plex Screening	Jason Downing Illumina
Infinium Custom Genotyping: Leading the Way in Genomic Research	Diane Lince, Ph.D. Illumina
Blueberry Genomics: Practical Applications from New Technologies	Allan Brown, Ph.D. Research Institute
Building a Marker Platform for Genome Wide Association in Corn	Joe Clarke, Ph.D. Syngenta
High Throughput SNP Discovery in The Pig Using The Illumina Genome Analyzer and Characterization of The Porcine HapMap Panel Using The Illumina Porcine 60K SNP iSelectTM BeachChip	Martien Groenen, Ph.D. Wageningen University
Resequencing for SNP Identification and Expression Profiling in Crop Species	Ryan Kim, Ph.D. NCGR
Walking the Cattle Continuum: Moving for the Bovine SNP50 to Higher and Lower Density SNP Panels	Curt Van Tassell, Ph.D. USDA
Use of High and Low-density SNP Genotypes in Genomic Selection and QTL Discovery in Dairy Cattle	Kent Weigel, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin