To Thursday 25 September 2008
The conference on Exploring Next Generation Sequencing took place in Rhode Island in 2008.
Program:
Keynote Presentation
| Sequencing: Automation for Microbial Community, Gene Expression and de Novo Deciphering of New Genomes | Bruce A. Roe, Ph.D., George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Setting Up a Next-Generation Sequencing Lab Sequencing Center Insights
| Sequencing more Human Genomes by the Next-Generation Technology | Jun Wang, Ph.D., Professor, Associate Director |
| Transitioning into the "Next-Generation" Sequencing Technology | Yu-Hui Rogers, Vice President, Core Technology Development and Services |
| The Whirlwind of Next-Generation Implementation | Vincent Magrini, Ph.D., Technology Development Research Faculty |
Luncheon Technology Workshop
| Focusing the Next-Generation Sequencing Workflow: Agilent's New Targeted Re-Sequencing Sample Preparation Platform | Carsten Russ, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Genome Sequencing & Analysis Program |
Setting Up a Next-Generation Sequencing Lab Core Facility Experiences
| Bacterial Genomic: Sequencing of Several Strains of Actinobacillus Actinmycetocomitans (Aa) an Oral Bacterium | Roger Bumgarner, Associate Professor, Microbiology Cornell University |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy: Implementation of Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies as Core Facility Resources | George Grills, Ph.D., Director of Operations, Core Facilities in the Life Sciences |
| Implementing Next-Gen DNA Sequencing Services at the University of Florida | Savita Shanker, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research |
Breakfast Technology Workshop
| Sequencing Data to Results: Application of Optimized Computational Tools | Deepak Thakkar, Ph.D., Director of Marketing - Higher Education, BioSciences |
Setting Up a Next-Generation Sequencing Lab Individual User Experiences
| Illumina's Next-Generation Sequencing Platform as the Flexible Tool for Screening siRNA Libraries | Oleg Iartchouk, Ph.D., Director, Sequencing Technologiesand Mutation Detections |
| Maximizing the Effi ciency of Targeted Re-Sequencing Using Droplet-Based Microfluidics | Jeffrey Olson, Ph.D., Project Lead, Nucleic Acid Applications |
| Using SNPs for Measuring microRNA-mediated mRNA Destabilization | Jinkuk Kim, Graduate Student, David Bartel's Lab, Health Science and Technology |
| Mapping Regulatory Regions Across Genomes: Chromatin and Transcription as Viewed by Next-Generation Sequencing | Ghia Euskirchen, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Yale University |
Driving Discoveries
| Absolute Transcript Counting by Single Molecule Sequencing | Tal Raz, Ph.D., Group Leader/Senior Scientist, Methods Development |
| Targeted Extraction of Specific Non-Contiguous Loci on Mouse Chromosome 1 for Next-Generation Sequencing with HybSelect | Daniel Summerer, Ph.D., Head of Application Development |
Next-Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
| Real-Time DNA Sequencing | Susan Hardin, President & CEO, VisiGen Biotechnologies |
| Shotgun Sequencing by Hybridization: Simple, High-Throughput and Low Cost | Benoit Houle, Ph.D., Senior Director, Technology Development |
Sponsors:
Agilent Technologies, Applied Biosystems, Bio Rad, BioTeam, DNA Star, febit, fluidigm, GenomeQuest, Genomatix, Helicos, Hewlett Packard, Isilon Systems, NanoString Technologies, Roche 454 Sequencing, Rain Dance Technologies, & SGI








