Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) Science with Industry workshop program presented a one-day symposium on commercializing an agriculture (plant or animal) product.

Thursday, October 06, 2011

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) hosted a 1 hour web conference/webinar about OpenFreezer – a free, open-source, web-based software application that maintains detailed and standardized documentation on common laboratory reagents and provides useful tools for their manipulation.

Friday, May 27, 2011

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG), in partnership with the London Regional Genomics Centre (LRGC), hosted a one-day training session in London on bioinformatics tools for interpreting gene lists from 'omics' data.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) hosted a 1 hour web conference/webinar about Savant - a visual analytics platform for genomic data. Savant improves upon existing genome browsers in interface design and data presentation.

Friday, April 08, 2011

OGI hosted a one-day workshop focused on metagenomics and environmental microbiology. Ontario researchers were brought together to network and explore opportunities in this field including in the areas of bioremediation, biomonitoring and biomining.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG), in partnership with StemCore Laboratories hosted a one-day training session in Ottawa on bioinformatics tools for interpreting gene lists from 'omics' data.

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) co-hosted a one hour webinar about the Reactome Pathway Database - a freely available, manually-curated resource of core biological pathways. This follow up webinar introduced the updated website and included case studies from various research groups.

Thursday, December 09, 2010

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) partnered to co-host a 1 hour web conference/webinar about iRefWeb – a web-based interface to a large landscape of protein-protein interactions (PPI), consolidated from major public databases.

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

OGI and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) partnered to co-host a 1 hour web conference/webinar about next generation sequencing services at the facility.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) Science with Industry workshop program and MaRS Future of Medicine series joined forces to present a one-day workshop on molecular diagnostics.  Dx2010 Markers to Market brought together leading international researchers, regulatory representatives and entrepreneurs from the diagnostics sector to examine regulatory hurdles and commercialization challenges on the path from biomarker discovery to market for molecular diagnostics and prognostics.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) partnered to co-host a web conference/webinar about the Reactome Database – a resource of core pathways and reactions in human biology

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

OGI and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) co-hosted a symposium entitled ‘Engineering the Future – Synthetic Biology’ which focused on advancements, opportunities and challenges in the field of synthetic biology.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

OGI and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) co-hosted a web conference/webinar about the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) – a curated database that catalogues structural variation in the human genome.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

OGI partnered with the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) and the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) to host a workshop entitled: Barcoding – Towards a DNA PDA which featured focused discussions on the creation of an integrated DNA barcoding device to enable rapid, accurate and inexpensive on-site identification of any species.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

OGI and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) co-hosted two sessions on bioinformatics tools for "Pathway and Network Analysis” including Cytoscape and GeneMANIA.

Monday, June 02, 2008

OGI and Invitrogen co-hosted a symposium entitled ‘Genome 2.0: New frontiers in epigenomics’ that addressed epigenetic regulation of gene expression with a special focus on chromatin biology, DNA methylation, non-coding RNAs and technology development.

Thursday, May 01, 2008 - Monday, September 01, 2008

OGI and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) co-hosted a series of webinars about the North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis (NorCOMM) project - part of a global research initiative developing and distributing a library of mouse embryonic stem cell lines representing a disruption in every gene of the mouse genome.