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ASHBi SignAC Technology Seminar – PacBio Sequel IIe

March 10, 2022

ASHBi SignAC Technology Seminar – PacBio Sequel IIe

ASHBi SignAC has newly installed PacBio's Sequel IIe and will hold ASHBi SignAC technology seminar on 10 and 11 March 2022.

In the seminar, we will introduce the breakthroughs made by highly accurate long-read sequencing technology and related tools. For more details of the seminar, please check the flyer.

Please see the following details and kindly attend the seminar if you are interested.

Program

Date:
10 (Thu) – 11 (Fri) March 2022
Time:
9:00–12:00 (both dates)
Venue:
Zoom Online Meeting*
[NOTE] Highspeed LAN/WiFi environment advised for stability
Language:
English and Japanese

Schedule

Day 1, Thursday, 10 March

9:00 HiFi and Sequel Intro and Performance
Kazuaki Hashimoto (Technical Sales Specialist / Tomy Digital) [Japanese]
9:15 General Workflow overview
Kazuaki Hashimoto (Technical Sales Specialist / Tomy Digital) [Japanese]
9:30 Q&A [English]/[Japanese]
How can SMRT sequencing aid your research
9:35 Rare disease : Intro, recent key publication
Michael Paumen  (Country Manager, Japan / PacBio) [English]
9:55 Oncology : Intro, recent key publication
Michael Paumen  (Country Manager, Japan / PacBio) [English]
10:15 Q&A and Break [English]/[Japanese]
10:30 Microbiology/Metagenome: Intro, recent key publication
Zuwei Qian (Maketing Director, APAC / PacBio) [English]
10:50 Plant Animal: Intro, recent key publication
Zuwei Qian (Maketing Director, APAC / PacBio) [English]
11:10 Special Topic: Methylation deep dive
Aaron Wenger (Associate Director, Product Marketing / PacBio) [English]
11:40 Q&A [English]/[Japanese]

Day 2, Friday, 11 March

Sequencing applications workflow
9:00 Opening & SignAC service
Taro Tsujimura (ASHBi, Kyoto University) [English]
9:10 SMRT Sequencing, a quick overview 
Sian Loong Au (Field Application Scientist / PacBio) [English]
9:20 Bioinformatics solution for variants calling in human WGS 
Khi Pin Chua (Field Application Scientist (BFX) / PacBio) [English]
9:50 Targeted sequencing wet lab workflow and bioinformatics tools
Sian Loong Au (Field Application Scientist / PacBio), Khi Pin Chua (Field Application Scientist (BFX) / PacBio) [English]
10:20 Q&A and Break [English]/[Japanese]
10:35 Iso-Seq and sc-IsoSeq wet lab workflow / Existing and upcoming Bioinformatics tool
Miwako Kitazume (Field Application Scientist / Tomy Digital), Khi Pin Chua (Field Application Scientist (BFX) / PacBio) [Japanese]/[English]
11:05 Metagenome wet lab workflow and bioinformatic tool
Hiroshi Katsumata (Field Application Scientist / Tomy Digital), Lisa Okamoto (Field Application Scientist (BFX) / PacBio [Japanese]
11:35 Q&A [English]/[Japanese]

Eligibility

Researchers and students

Registration

Pre-registered participants only

Registration Form (Google Form)

Organizers

Single-Cell Genome Information Analysis Core (SignAC)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology(WPI-ASHBi), Kyoto University

Contact

Single-Cell Genome Information Analysis Core (SignAC)
ashbi-signac-office[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Please change [at] to @.