iSEQ opening ceremony

Friday 7 December 2012 Aarhus University's Centre for Integrative Sequencing - iSEQ, invites all interested to its opening ceremony. The event will be marked by talks from four prominent international researchers, including the inaugural lecture as Honorary Professor at Department of Biomedicine by Wang Jun, Professor and Director of BGI.

05.12.2012 | Helle Horskjær Hansen

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The day will also provide an insight into the different ways of using and integrating new sequencing technologies at the centre. Technologies that will help create a better understanding of the complex molecular systems that control biological functions and influence the development of diseases.

iSEQ has international ambitions

iSEQ was launched this summer as one of Aarhus University’s five new interdisciplinary centres. It is anchored at Health and led by Professor Anders Børglum. The centre has brought together researchers from three of the main academic areas at Aarhus University, and draws on a network of leading international researchers. The aspiration is that iSEQ within a few years be able to assert itself among the international leaders in the field.

The presentations at the opening ceremony will mainly come from international partners of iSEQ. They will among other things show examples of the kind of interdisciplinary studies that will be carried out at iSEQ. Studies that integrate biological systems with different methods for sequencing in systems biology, functional genomics, and research on human diseases, mainly cancer and neuropsychiatric disorders.

iSEQ relies on close collaboration with BGI, the core centre for sequencing at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University Hospital in Skejby, and the national super computer and bioinformatics platform "Genome Denmark". The latter is under construction at Aarhus University in collaboration with leading Danish universities and a number of companies, including BGI-Europe.