CRASH COURSE

Best practice for high quality genome assembly

Organised in partnership with European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA)

When: 4 September 9.00 - 12.30

Where: Aula Magna, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Food and Environment (D3A), Marche Polytechnic University

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Programme:

9:00 Welcome and introduction

Lino Ometto, University of Pavia, Italy

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9:15 Overview of NGS technologies and experimental design

Alessio Iannucci, University of Florence, Italy

10:00 Genome assembly strategies

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

10:45 Coffee break

11:15 Functional annotation of genomes

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

Lorena Ancona, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy

12.00 Community efforts to democratise high-quality genome assembly and annotation

Keynote speaker: Robert Waterhouse, Lausanne University, Switzerland