Upcoming Events
MAQC 2020
2020 MAQC Annual Meeting will be held in Cary, NC USA.
The MAQC Society will be holding its 4th annual meeting. Please submit your abstract for poster/oral presentation or just register for the conference here.
Venue: SAS Campus in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA Date: April 8-10, 2020, with 8th (Wed) for poster presentation, workshop and reception at Embassy Suite Theme: Reproducibility – A 2020 Vision Hotel: The primary hotel will be the Embassy Suites in Cary, NC (201 Harrison Oaks Blvd, Cary, NC USA 27513) and the discount rate is available here. Highlights:
- Keynote speakers
- Dr. William Slikker, Director of FDA-NCTR
- Dr. Andrew Marshall, Editor-in-Chief, Nature Biotechnology
- Dr. Rebecca Doerge, Dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University
- Dr. Joel Parker, Director, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core at UNC
- Special session on the summary of FDA-led Sequencing Quality Control Phase 2 project
- Reproducibility in cancer genomics
- Best practice for analyzing next-generation sequencing data
- Cross-lab and cross-platform performance characteristics for WGS, oncopanel sequencing, and liquid biopsy
- We offer (see more detail here)
- Support for both postdoctoral fellows and graduate/under-graduate students (hotel and registration waiver) upon acceptance for either poster or oral presentation
- Support is on a first come, first served basis
- Poster awards - Cash award and one-year free subscription for Nature Biotechnology
This will be a joint meeting with MCBIOS (April 6-8, 2020). There is a deep discount rate to attend both meetings (e.g., for professionals, $400 for MAQC2020 only, $600 for both meetings). In addition, lunch is provided for each day of both meetings (included in registration).
Past Events
MAQC2019 (Trentino, Italy)
The 2019 MAQC Annual Meeting will be held in Riva del Garda (Trentino) with a tentative theme of “Machine Learning and Precision Medicine – Reproducibility in Big Data”.
Feb 24-27, 2018 - MAQC 2018 (Shanghai, China)
The 2018 MAQC Annual Meeting, "Precision Medicine and Clinical Omics".
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Apr 12 2017 - MAQC Society Inaugural Meeting (Cary, NC, USA)
The first meeting organized by the MAQC Society was hosted by the SAS Institute, North Carolina, USA.
2017 theme: “Reproducible Genomics”
Presentations
Weida Tong, President of the Society
Russ Wolfinger, SAS Institute Inc.
Wendell Jones, PhD, Principal Bioinformaticist and Scientific Advisor EA Genomics, a business unit of Q2 Solutions
Leming Shi, PhD, Professor and Director at the Center for Pharmacogenomics and Fudan‐Zhangjiang Center for Clinical Genomics School of Life Sciences, Fudan University Shanghai, China
Weida Tong, PhD, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, NCTR/FDA
May Dongmei Wang, PhD
Pawel Labaj and David Kreil, Boku University
James Willey, MD, Co‐Founder and Consultant, Accugenomics, Inc., George Isaac Chair for Cancer Research, University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus
Torsten Reda, PhD, CSO, Lexogen
Christopher E. Mason, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics & The Institute for Computational Biomedicine (ICB), Meyer Cancer Center, Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, at Weill Cornell Medicine,Fellow of the Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Jian‐Liang (Jason) Li PhD, Director, Integrative Bioinformatics Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Binsheng Gong, PhD, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Joaquín Dopazo, Clinical Bioinformatics Area, Fundación Progreso y Salud, Functional Genomics Node, (INB-ELIXIR-ES), Bioinformatics in Rare Diseases (BiER-CIBERER), Sevilla, Spain.
Dr. Jing Wang, National Institute of Metrology, P.R. China
Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute of Cancer Research
Zhichao Liu, PhD, DBB, NCTR, FDA