CRASH COURSE

Best practice for high quality genome assembly

Organised in partnership with European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA)

When: 4 September 9.30 - 13.00

Where: Aula Azzurra, Palazzina Scienze 3, DiSVA, Via Brecce Bianche

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Programme:

9.30 - 9.45 Welcome and introduction

Lino Ometto, University of Pavia, Italy

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9.45 - 10.30 Overview of NGS technologies and experimental design

Alessio Iannucci, University of Florence, Italy

10.30 - 11.15 Genome assembly strategies

Andrea Benazzo, University of Ferrara, Italy; Giulio Formenti, Rockefeller University, US

11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 12.15 Functional annotation of genomes

Marco Gerdol, University of Trieste, Italy; Roberto Biello, University of Ferrara, Italy;

Lorena Ancona, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy

12.15 - 12.45 Community efforts to democratise high-quality genome assembly and annotation

Keynote speaker: TBD