Thursday May 22th 2025, 13h30-17h00 BIP (‘huis van het gewest’) Koningsstraat 2-4 - 1000 Brussels
This informal working group meeting is exclusively for members, providing a platform for open discussion and interaction.
🔹 Registration: Closed
🔹 Accreditation: RIZIV-INAMI accreditation in ethics & health economics has been requested.
Program
13h30 Welcome
13h45 Parallel sessions
Working Group Bioinformatics and working group NGS in microbiology
- Viral Phylodynamics in Mpox outbreaks (Daan Jansens – ITG)
- 16S data-analysis tools (Sylvain Brohee – IPG)
- Metagenomics Analysis (Joke Deschildre – AZ Sint-Jan)
Working Group Optical Genome Mapping
- Results of the sample exchange (Marie Le Mercier - UZA)
- Results of the molecule file exchange (Toon Janssens - UZ Brussel)
Working Group Liquid Biopsy
- Overview of the cfDNA lab applications by the WG members
15h15 Coffee
15h45 Parallel sessions
Working Group Bioinformatics
- BSVD: the Belgian Somatic Variant Database (Pieter-Jan Volders & Mark Gerarts – Jessa)
- RNA-fusion & splice variant detection in Cancer diagnostics (Toon Rosseel – UZ Gent)
- CNVseq: from fastq to interface (Stijn Vereecke & Koen Swaerts – AZ Delta)
Working Group NGS in microbiology (only for working group members)
Working Group Optical Genome Mapping
- Presentation of special cases- Minimal genes of interest list (Elly De Vlieghere - AZ Sint Jan)
- Discussion on future collaboration
Working Group Liquid Biopsy
- Overview of the cfDNA lab applications by the WG members
- Aims of the cfDNA working group
- Proposal ring trial
17h15 End of the meeting
