Tentative Meeting Agenda Note: Times subject to change
Tuesday, October 28
8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30	See the real biology: the power of whole transcript expression profiling Jeremy Preston, Ph.D., Senior Marketing Manager, Affymetrix
9:30 - 10:00	Genome-wide analysis of alternative splicing using high-density oligonucleotide microarrays Tyson Clark, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Affymetrix
10:00 - 10:45	Comprehensive, exon level, integration of protein and microarray data Crispin Miller, Ph.D., Group Leader of the Applied Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester, UK
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45	Title: Currently Pending Timothy J. Triche, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Head, Department of Pathology, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
11:45 - 12:30	Exon Level Analysis of Expression Differences between the MAQC Reference RNA Samples Roderick Jensen, Ph.D., Director, Core Laboratory Facility, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA
12:30 - 1:45	Lunch
1:45 - 2:05	SMN deficiency causes tissue-specific perturbations in the repertoire of snRNAs and widespread defects in splicing Kimberly Dittmar, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2:05 - 2:50	Genome-wide approaches for the analysis of Affymetrix exon arrays Justine Peeters, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2:50 - 3:20	XRAY Provides Easy Work-flows for the Analysis of Exon, Gene, and 3‘ IVT Arrays John Burke, co-founder and President & Chief Scientific Officer of Biotique Systems
3:20 - 3:35	Coffee
3:35 - 4:05	Use of Exon arrays to study the evolution of primate transcriptomes Yi Xing, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Iowa City, IA
4:05 - 4:35	A Case Study of Exon Analysis on a Brain Cancer Data Set: Identification of Alternative Splicing between Two Tumor Types versus Control Doug Robinson, Ph.D. JMP Genomics Application Scientist Manager
TBD	Cocktail Reception, Dinner, and Networking
Wedesday, October 29
9:00 - 9:30	Identifying Tumor-Specific Alternative Splicing Signatures by Exon Arrays and Combined Analytical Approaches Lilach Soreq Ph.D., Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
9:30 - 10:00	Using the Affymetrix Exon array as a flexible expression assay, extracting as much information as you need using Partek Genomics Suite Mike Lelivelt, Ph.D., Vice President of Genomics, Partek Inc.
10:00 - 10:30	Mapping functional protein-RNA interactions in the mouse brain Donny Licatalosi Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Molecular Neuro-Oncology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
10:30 - 11:00	Analysis of Affymetrix exon array data using X:Map, exonmap and Bioconductor Crispin Miller, Ph.D., Group Leader of the Applied Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester, UK
11:30 - 12:00	Title: Currently Pending Rob Clum, Market Development Manager, Informatics, Affymetrix
12:00 - 12:05	Closing Remarks
12:05 - 1:30	Lunch