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Welcome to the University of Delaware!
Bruce Kingham, Director, Sequencing & Genotyping Center, University of Delaware The Trials and Tribulations of High Quality Human Genome Assembly


Sequencing Chemistry & Application Updates
Jonas Korlach, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, PacBio


Using Grizzly Bears to Unlock the Biomedical Promise of Hibernation
Shawn Trojahn, Ph.D. Student, Washington State University


Getting a Read on One Little Worm with PacBio’s Low DNA Input Workflow and the Agilent Femto Pulse System
Erin Bernberg, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, University of Delaware


Improved Assembly of Segmental Duplications Using HiFi
Mitchell Vollger, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington


Unbiased Characterization of Metagenome Composition and Function Using HiFi Sequencing on the PacBio®
Sequel® II System
Meredith Ashby, Sr. Staff Scientist, PacBio


From Long Reads to Transcript Function: Bioinformatics Tools for Iso-Transcriptomics Analysis
Ana Conesa Cegarra, Ph.D., Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Florida


High-Throughput Cell Lysis and Nucleic Acid Extraction Powered by AFA Technology
Eugenio Daviso, Ph.D., Director of Applications, Covaris


Setting Expectations and Sifting Through the Stinkers: A Core Lab Perspective
Shana McDevitt, Director, Genome Sequencing Lab, University of California, Berkeley


Lowering Input Requirements
Jonas Korlach, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, PacBio


Sequel II: Enabling SMRT® Sequencing for All
Melissa L. Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Technology Development, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
Icahn Institute of Data Science and Genomic Technology


Targeted PacBio Sequencing using Sage HLS-CATCH
Ethan Ellis, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai


RADAR-seq: Utilizing PacBio SMRT Sequencing to Detect and Quantitate DNA Damage on a
Genome-Wide Scale
Kelly Zatopek, Ph.D., Research Scientist, NEB


Modulation of Gut Microbiome in Mice with Differential Susceptibility to Colonic Ulceration
Masako Nakanishi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The University of Connecticut Health Center


Multiple Expressed Isoforms of TIN2 Stimulate Human Telomerase
Alexandra M. Pike, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


New Genotype to Phenotype Associations in Viral Metagenomes Enabled by SMRT Sequencing
Shawn Polson, Ph.D., Director, Bioinformatics Core Facility, University of Delaware


Long-read RNA Sequencing in Neglected Human Parasites
Nic Wheeler, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison


No Assembly Required - Making the Most of Iso-Seq Data
Kristin Mars, Field Application Scientist, PacBio

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