This live, virtual workshop will meet weekly for one hour, every Tuesday at noon from April 6 - May 25, 2021.
Long read sequencing offers new opportunities for assembling genomes, characterizing microbiomes, identifying structural variants and RNA isoforms, phasing critical variants, and more. Participants will learn about advances in long-read sequencing approaches and novel applications of this technology. This virtual workshop will feature panel discussions about future opportunities for this field.
Please contact the event organizer for more information
Apr06
May25
2021
Long read sequencing offers new opportunities for assembling genomes, characterizing microbiomes, identifying structural variants and RNA isoforms, and phasing critical variants. Participants will learn about the technology and molecular biology driving each long-read sequencing platform, their commonalities and differences, and hear about their applications to basic, translational, and clinical genomics.
Themes Include:
The workshop is appropriate for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and other scientists or clinicians interested in long read sequencing.
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, April 6 Keynote & Overview 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT Long-Read Sequencing of Complex Structurally Variant Regions |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, April 13 Resolving Complex Genomic Regions 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, April 20 Personal and Population-Level Genomes 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT Personal to Population-Scale Genomes |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, April 27 Epigenetics 12:00 - 12:20 PM EDT A Comprehensive Comparison of Tools for Detecting DNA Methylation Using Nanopore Long-Read Sequencing Data 12:20 - 12:40 PM EDT Kin Fai Au, Ph.D., The Ohio State University 12:40 - 1:00 PM EDT Winston Timp, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, May 4 Transcriptomics 12:00 - 12:20 PM EDT Ali Mortazavi, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 12:20 - 12:40 PM EDT Bulk and Single-Cell Isoform Sequencing Using PacBio Longreads 12:40 - 1:00 PM EDT The Plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 beyond Simple Nucleotide Polymorphism |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, May 11 Applications to COVID-19 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT FDA SEQC2 Studies of Long and Short DNA and RNA Sequencing |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, May 18 Emerging Technologies 12:00 - 12:20 PM EDT Ultra Long Nanopore Sequencing Using Nanobind Magnetic Disks 12:20 - 12:40 PM EDT Catherine Brownstein, MPH, Ph.D., Boston Children's Hospital 12:40 - 1:00 PM EDT Long Read Applications with Linked Reads |
4:00 PM |
Tuesday, May 25 Panel Discussion 12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT "The Future of Long-Read Sequencing and Genomic Technology Development" Chia-Lin Wei, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory |
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Research Associate, Division of Genetics and Genomics; assistant Director, Molecular Genetics Core Facility; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Co-Founder & CSO
Principal Investigator, Professor of Genome Sciences
Faculty Investigator
Associate Professor
CEO, Founder
Associate Professor
Assistant Research Scientist
Professor
Investigator- Computational and Statistical Genomics
Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor and Chair of Genetics
Assistant Professor
Principal Staff Scientist
Associate Director, Genomic Technology Data Science