Invitation to the Annual Meeting of the AGD 2020 October 19, 2020
Bonn, December 17–18 2020
Topic: Genomics for Health
Dear Members and Friends of the AGD,
This year everything is different because of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It has also affected our plans for the annual meeting 2020, which will be held at a different place at a different time. It has also influenced the program of the meeting, as ...
Read moreA new publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out! July 4, 2020
Jennifer V Gerbracht et al. “CASC3 promotes transcriptome-wide activation of nonsense-mediated decay by the exon junction complex”, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 48, Issue 15, 04 September 2020, Pages 8626–8644, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa564
The NGS project funded in the 1st call and led by PI Niels Gehring published their first results on the role of CASC3 in post-transcriptional gene expression.
Congratulations to all ...
Read moreThe first publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out! June 24, 2020
Erger, F., Nörling, D., Borchert, D. et al. cfNOMe — A single assay for comprehensive epigenetic analyses of cell-free DNA. Genome Med 12, 54 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00750-5
cfNOMe is a two-in-one method of measuring cell-free DNA cytosine methylation and nucleosome occupancy in a single assay using non-disruptive enzymatic cytosine conversion and a custom bioinformatics pipeline. This in-house developed ...
Read moreThe German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative May 10, 2020
The NGS Competence Centers launched the German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative DeCOI in collaboration with many national research institutes to use Omics technologies to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn more on DeCOI.
Read the Uni Bonn press release (in German).
Read moreNGS-Call 3 submission deadline for full applications has been extended by the DFG April 2, 2020
In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the DFG has extended the submission deadline for the full application for the NGS-Call 3 from 9 June 2020 to 9 September 2020. For more information see here
Read moreIn view of the preventative measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19), we have decided to postpone the WGGC 2020 News & Views Meeting scheduled for April 01, 2020 to a later date this year. March 9, 2020
We will inform you about the new date in due time. We thank you for your understanding.
Read moreWGGC2020 Cologne – Registration open now! February 7, 2020
Join us in Cologne on April the 1st for the last of the three WGGC2020- News & Views Meetings!
This event is a great opportunity to connect with the WGGC experts and to learn about the latest NGS developments that are available for your research!
The program can be found here.
Attendance is free of charge, registration is ...
Read moreWGGC2020 BONN January 15, 2020
A successful start into 2020 with WGGC events in Bonn! On January 14th, more than 80 participants gathered for the WGGC2020 News&Views at the Biomedical Center BMZ in Bonn, located on top of the Venusberg, to share knowledge on the applications of NGS.
After the welcome speech by Prof. Joachim L. Schultze, our Bonn site ...
Read moreJANUARY EVENTS December 22, 2019
Registration to our January events is now open!
Join us in Bonn on January 14th for the WGGC2020 News&Views meeting and attend the Webinar Workshop on the art of writing protocols.
Join us in Düsseldorf on January 27th for the WGGC2020 News&Views meeting.
And last but not least, Season’s Greetings from all of us at the WGGC!
Read moreWGGC2020 NEWS&VIEWS November 8, 2019
In the first months of 2020 we will hold three “WGGC2020 News & Views” Meetings, one at each core site, to connect with the scientific community and share both the outcomes from the first year of funding and the plans for the next years. The appointments are as follow:
January 14th, 2020 in Bonn, registration is ...
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