Cistrome Meeting Schedule

8:30am Breakfast and Setup

9:00am Opening Remarks

9:10am ChIP-chip Protocol Panel Discussion (technical details and QC issues at each step)

• Moderator: Jay Carroll in Brown Lab
• Alex Brodsky
• Annie Yang in Struhl lab
• Keith Orford in Scadden Lab
• Technical representative from Affymetrix (Victor Sementchenko), NimbleGen (Xinmin Zhang) and Agilent (Heather Plasterer)

10:50am Coffee Break

11:20am Sample processing and data analysis:

• Ed Fox
• Wei Li in Liu Lab

12:15pm Lunch Break

12:45pm Sponsor Presentations (data quality, reproducibility, cost, etc)

• NimbleGen
• Affymetrix
• Agilent

1:45pm ChIP-chip discoveries on different platforms

• Steven Vokes in McMahon Lab (Agilent): Genomic characterization of Gli transcriptional targets in a sonic hedgehog-mediated neural patterning response
• Qianben Wang in Brown Lab (Affymetrix): Non-Canonical responsive elements and multiple collaborating transcription factors are required for androgen-dependent transcription
• Art Alekseyenko in Kuroda Lab (NimbleGen): High resolution ChIP-chip analysis reveals that the Drosophila MSL complex selectively identifies active genes on the male X chromosome.

3:00pm Coffee Break

3:30pm Discussions

• Alternative analysis algorithms
• Cistrome wish list, Shirley Liu

Conclusion