This symposium brings together legal specialists in Data Protection and social science experts on direct to consumer genetic testing. It aims to inform discussions on all aspects of data protection and direct to consumer genetic testing: legal; ethical; and social.

 With sponsoring from the ENGAGE and GEUVADIS consortia, partners EBI and LUMC are organizing a course on RNA-seq data analysis for participants from both EU consortia.

The course will be held from December 4-6, 2012 at the EBI campus, in Hinxton, UK.

It involves a three-day program with lectures and many hands-on sessions covering the following topics: introduction to RNA-seq technology, quality assessment, alignment tools, statistical analysis of differential expression, eQTL analysis, miRNA-seq and archiving of RNA-seq data. For a full program and speakers, please visit the website: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onsite/121204_ENGAGE.html

The course is aimed at PhD students and postdocs that have familiarity with the technology and the biological use cases of high throughput sequencing . Experience in R is desirable.

Registration costs including housing and meals are £150. You can register here: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/events/121204_Engage.html