The MMI course 'Human Disease Genomics: SNPs, GWAS and Next-Gen Sequencing' took place in the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, on 22-23 June 2010. 
 

This course, running over two days, aimed to introduce researchers to key strategic considerations in designing and performing gene-mapping studies.

89 attendees from MMI partner institutions and further afield attended Day 1 of the course comprising lectures from a total of 9 speakers. Prof David Goldstein (Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, USA) delivered the keynote lecture on  'Rare and Common Variants in Human Disease'. This HRB - TCD Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine Lecture was opened to a wider audience. 

Dr Overduin and Workshop Attendees

A practical workshop took place on Day 2 (Wed 23 June), delivered by Dr Bert Overduin (European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus). The workshop complemented the day 1 lecture material by focusing on  the analysis of genetic variation with guided hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser. The Ensembl project (http://www.ensembl.org) provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of genome sequences.

  
Feedback received from participants was very positive. We thank the sponsors for their support of this MMI Course.

For further information on this MMI course, please see here 

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