User Group Meeting Agenda- June 17, 2015
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, 20 N. Pine Street, Room Number PH N103

Time Description
8:30 – 9:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30am Opening Remarks
Kevin Corcoran, Pacific Biosciences
9:30 – 9:55am Using Long Reads to Improve a Benchmark Human “Genome in a Bottle”
Justin Zook, Ph.D., The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
9:55 – 10:20am Using PacBio long reads to generate a high quality reference for the allotetraploid Coffea arabica and
its maternal diploid ancestor Coffea eugenioides
Marcela Yepes, Ph.D., Cornell University
10:20 – 10:45am Improving Maize Reference Resources with Hybrid Sequencing Approaches
Doreen Ware, Ph.D., USDA ARS, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
10:45 – 11:25am Coffee Break
11:25 – 11:50am Characterization of Fusion Genes and the Significantly Expressed Fusion Isoforms in Breast Cancer
by Hybrid Sequencing
Kin Fai Au, Ph.D., Department of Internal Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Iowa
11:50 – 12:15pm Toward Building Niche Diagnostic Assays that Benefit from Targeted Long-read Sequencing Methods 
Robert P. Sebra, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
12:15 – 1:35pm Lunch - Sponsored by DNAnexus
1:35 – 2:00pm Construction of Large Insert Target Enrichment Libraries for PacBio Long Read-length Sequencing
Mark Wang, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
2:00 – 2:25pm No Assembly Required: Full-length MHC Class I Allele Discovery by PacBio Circular Consensus Sequencing
Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Ph.D., United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease
2:25 – 2:50pm Full-length HIV-1 env Deep Sequencing in a Donor with Broadly Neutralizing V1/V2 Antibodies
Melissa Smith, Ph.D., Pacific Biosciences
2:50 – 3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30 – 3:55pm High Quality Full Length 16s Sequence: A Case Study in Sino-Nasal Biogeography
Josh Earl, M.S., Drexel College of Medicine
3:55 – 4:20pm Deep Sequencing in the Deep Subsurface: De Novo Metagenomic Assembly to Recover Complete
Genomes from the Soudan Iron Mine
Jon Badalamenti, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
4:20 – 4:30pm Closing Remarks
Kevin Corcoran, Pacific Biosciences 
4:30 – 6:00pm Reception – Sponsored by Sage Science
Time Description
1:00– 1:40pm Generation of ultra-long sheared DNA fragments >20-kb for large genome assembly applications
1:40– 2:00pm Barcoding Product Updates: PacBio Barcoded Adapters and Barcoded Universal Primer Kits
2:00– 2:15pm Whole Transcriptome Iso-Seq™ using Barcodes
2:15– 2:45pm Coffee Break
2:45– 3:30pm Targeted SMRT Sequencing Using a Solution-Based Capture & Enrichment Strategy
3:30– 4:30pm Introduction to SMRT Portal Secondary Analysis Protocols and Reports for Sample QC
4:30– 5:00pm Open discussion and questions

Sample Preparation Workshop - June 16, 2015
1:00 – 5:00 PM

Discovery Auditorium, University of Maryland BioPark, Bldg II,  801 W. Baltimore Street

Time Description
1:00-2:15pm Iso-Seq - troubleshooting the SMRT Analysis Iso-Seq pipeline, discussion of tertiary analysis options,
including a detailed walkthrough
2:15– 3:30pm Large Genome Assembly - Software options for large genome assembly, install and setup of FALCON
3:30– 4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00– 5:00pm Open discussion, topics provided by attendees
  Special Guest: Jon Badalamenti, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Bioinformatics Workshop – June 16, 2015
1:00 – 5:00 PM

Invent and Advance Conference Rooms, University of Maryland BioPark, Bldg II, 801 W. Baltimore Street

Time Description
8:30 – 9:00am  Breakfast
9:00- 10:15am Iso-Seq - troubleshooting the SMRT Analysis Iso-Seq pipeline, discussion of tertiary analysis options,
including a detailed walkthrough
10:15– 11:30am Large Genome Assembly - Software options for large genome assembly, install and setup of FALCON
11:30– 12:00pm Lunch
12:00– 1:00pm Open discussion, topics provided by attendees
  Special Guest: Sergey Koren, Ph.D., NBACC

Bioinformatics Workshop – June 18, 2015
9:00 – 1:00 PM

University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, 20 N. Pine Street, Room Number PH N103

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