Dear Listers,

The VIB MicroArray Facility (MAF) is organizing a User Group Meeting, this time focusing on miRNA expression analysis. Other topics covered are: AGRONOMICS1, a new tiling array for Arabidopsis, DamID, an alternative for ChIP-chip, Breast cancer gene expression profiling, Toxicogenomics,  nCounter® analysis system, and many more.

Attendance is completely free but as space is limited you are required to register and attendance will be acknowledged on a "first come first served" principle.

Check out the preliminary program below and at:  www.microarrays.be

You may register at:

torik.ayoubi@vib.be, do not forget to state “registration” in the subject header.

In the body of the email please give your -

-Name

-Affiliation

Torik Ayoubi (PhD)

Research Manager

VIB MicroArray Facility, K.U. Leuven

Herestraat 49

O&N 1, Post Box 816

3000 Leuven, Belgium

email: torik.ayoubi@vib.be

tel:     0032-16347939 

web site: http://www.microarrays.be/, http://www.vib.be/

personal web site: http://www.biomedicalgenomics.org

9.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.30 New developments at VIB MicroArray Facility; More, Better, Faster, Cheaper, Torik Ayoubi, VIB MAF

10.30-11.00 MicroRNAs: A comparison of different platforms, Hinrich Goehlmann, Johnson & Johnson, Beerse

11.00-11.15 MicroRNA data analysis, Rudy van Eijsden, VIB MAF

11.15-11.30 Microarray analysis of microRNA profiles in a mouse model of left ventricular hypertrophy, Peter Pokreisz, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, KU Leuven and Vesalius Research Center, VIB.

11.30-11.45 MicroRNAs in heart progenitor cells, Stefania Crippa, Maurilio Sampaolesi, Stem cell Institute, K.U.Leuven

11.45-12.15 MicroRNA profiling and targets genes in normal and malignant B cells, Anke Van den Berg, Pathology & Medical Biology, University Medical Center Groningen

12.15-13.20 Lunch

13.20-13.40 Extracting knowledge from your microarray experiment, Joke Allemeersch, VIB MAF

13.40-14.00 AGRONOMICS1, a new tiling array for Arabidopsis transcriptome profiling, Pierre Hilson, Functional Genomics, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University

14.00-14.20 High resolution profiling of the LEDGF/p75 chromatin interaction in the ENCODE region, Jan De Rijck, Moleculaire Virologie en Gentherapie, K.U.Leuven

14.20-14.40 Prediction of lymph node involvement in breast cancer from primary tumor tissue using gene expression profiling, Ann Smeets, Multidisciplinary Breast Centre Leuven

14.40-15.10 Coffee

15.10-15.30 Toxicogenomics in an in vitro estrogenic screening context: added value to classical single endpoint estrogenicity screens , Caroline Vanparys, Laboratory of Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology, University of Antwerp 

15.30-15.50 Mapping gene regulatory networks in Drosophila, Stein Aerts, Laboratory of Computational Biology, Center for Human Genetics, KULeuven

15.50-16.10 nCounter®, multiplex transcript quantification using a molecular barcoding detection system, Frederik Coppens, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University

16.10-16.25 End Remarks