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AGENDA (subject to change)
| DAY 1 | Thursday 14 November |
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Registration |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome and Introduction |
| Riki Aydeniz, Sales Manager EMEA and Gerrit Kuhn, Director Support EMEA, PacBio | |
| 9:15 – 9:35 | PacBio – Yesterday, Today and into Tomorrow |
| Chris Seipert, VP Sales and Support, PacBio | |
| 9:35 – 10:35 | 2019 – A year of transformation – Updates from the Product Management Team |
| Tzvetana Kerelska, Director, Product Management, Informatics and Paul Kotturi, Director, Product Management, PacBio | |
| 10:35- 11:05 | Coffee Break |
| 11:05- 11:45 | What’s new in human/medical SMRT Sequencing in Sweden? |
| Adam Ameur, National Genomics Infrastructure, SciLifeLab, Uppsala University, Sweden | |
| 11:45- 12:15 | Solving unsolved rare diseases. Concept and approaches of the EU project Solve-RD |
| Holm Graeßner, Centre for Rare Diseases Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany | |
| 12:15- 12:30 | Reliable quality control for PacBio Sequencing with the Agilent Femto Pulse System |
| Platinum Sponsor Presentation- Agilent Technologies Inc., Véronique Gautier, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Buffet Lunch |
| 13:30– 14:45 | The Iso-Seq method for bulk and single cell full-length transcript sequencing |
| Elizabeth Tseng, Principal Scientist, PacBio | |
| Implementation of SMRT-Cappable-seq, a new method to study bacterial gene expression with full-length operon sequencing | |
| Coralie Fournier, Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Investigate HPV integration in cervical cancer : from short to long reads sequencing | |
| Sylvain Baulande, Curie Institute, Paris, France | |
| Longer, better, easier? Sequencing phages and bacteria on the PacBio Sequel System | |
| Alexander Harms, University of Basel / Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland | |
| What´s new in microbial sequencing and metagenomics | |
| Deborah Moine, Field Applications Scientist EMEA and Ralph Vogelsang, EMEA Field Sales Development Manager, PacBio |
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| 14:45 – 15:00 |
Target enrichment for chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNA using the SageHLS System Platinum Sponsor Presentation- Chris Boles, Sage Science Inc. |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 17:25 | New adventures in HiFi: experience from the field |
| Sylke Winkler, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany | |
| Variant detection and de novo assembly with HiFi reads | |
| William Rowell, Applications Senior Scientist, Bioinformatics, PacBio | |
| De novo genome sequencing and annotation of a terrestrial slug A. subfuscus | |
| Janina Fuß, University of Kiel, Germany | |
| Assembling chromosome-level genomes in non-model animal species | |
| Alessio Iannucci, University of Florence, Italy | |
| CCS evolution in 2019 - from 7 days to 7 hours analysis time | |
| Tzvetana Kerelska, Director, Product Management, Informatics, PacBio | |
| Haplotype diversity at herbicide resistance loci in European blackgrass populations | |
| Fernando Rabanal, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany | |
| Reference-quality genomes of 6 bats illuminate genomic determinants and evolution of unique adaptations in bats | |
| Michael Hiller, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany | |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | SMRT Informatics Session |
| 19:30 – 21:00 | Dinner & Drinks |
| DAY 2 | Friday 15 November |
| 8:30 – 8:40 | Welcome Day 2 |
| 8:40 – 9:20 | Choose your own SMRT Adventure: Navigating the applications enabled by the Sequel II System |
| Katy Munson, University of Washington, Seattle, USA | |
| 9:20 – 10:10 | SMRT Sequencing for disease relevant Structural Variation |
| Matthew Hestand, Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, USA | |
| Integrated short and long read single cell RNA-sequencing reveals alternative splicing events in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells | |
| Laura Mincarelli, Earlham Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom | |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 – 12:50 | Workgroup Sessions |
| 1- Small genomes, big insights: Multiplexed Microbial SMRT Sequencing | |
| 2- Amplicons: Obtain HiFi reads for anything that you can amplify | |
| 3- HiFi: The new paradigm also for WGS - let’s take a closer look at workflow | |
| 4- The Iso-Seq Workflow 2.0 – a step forward in transcriptome research: How to best put it into practice | |
| 12:50 – 14:00 | Buffet Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | The Vertebrate Genomes Project: high-quality genome assemblies for all vertebrate species in the third-generation sequencing era |
| Giulio Formenti, The Rockefeller University/HHMI, New York, USA | |
| On the shoulders of giants: Establishing a new genomic era for Norway spruce and Scots pine | |
| Björn Nystedt, Bioinformatics Long-term Support SciLife, Uppsala University, Sweden | |
| 15:00– 15:30 | Perspectives and Closing Remarks |
| 15:30 | Close of UGM |



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