Symposium Talk
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Poster sessions:
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Talks
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be held
in
lecture_hall_14_(HS14)
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lecture
hall 15 (HS15) |
Please
register and submit your abstracts (talk or poster) using the
Internet
based ConfTool registration and submission
platform => Registration.qPCR-dPCR-NGS-2017.net
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Main
topic: Liquid Biopsy & Circulating NAs
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Speakers
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KEYNOTE
LECTURES:
JO
VANDESOMPELE
Prof. at Center
for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Biogazelle, Technologiepark 3, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
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RNA
capture sequencing enabled liquid biopsy screening.
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JAN LÖTVALL
Prof. at Krefting Research Centre, Department of
Internal
Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of
Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Extracellular vesicles and their potential
as biomarkers and therapeutics.
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AN HENDRIX
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium
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Identification of extracellular
vesicle-specific RNA signatures from human plasma.
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KENNETH W. WITWER
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Comparative
Pathobiology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, The
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
Secretary General, International Society for Extracellular Vesicles
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Extracellular vesicle subsets and sampling
strategies for nucleic acid profiling.
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MIKKEL NOERHOLM
PhD, Vice President Product Development, Exosome Diagnostics, Riverside
Technology Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Exosomes - Advancing Liquid Biopsy
Diagnostics.
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DOMINIK
BUSCHMANN
Animal
Physiology & Immunology, TUM Weihenstephan, Germany
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Valid biomarker
signatures from liquid biopsies
- how to standardize the small RNA-Seq workflow.
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DAVID SVEC
Senior researcher, Insitute of Biotechnology,
BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ
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Mitochondrial transfer between cancer cells.
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MARLENE REITHMAIR
Dr.med.vet., Institut für Humangenetik, Klinikum der
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Germany
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Comparative
characterization of exosomal, serum and blood cell miRNA profiles in
patients with sepsis. |
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MIRCO CASTOLDI
PhD, Group leader at the Department of
Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Dusseldorf
University Hospital, Dusseldorf, Germany
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Extracellular Vesicles and their associated
cargos in health and disease.
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Main
topic: Advanced Molecular Diagnostics
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KEYNOTE
LECTURE:
STEPHEN
A. BUSTIN
Professor
of Molecular Medicine, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Faculty of
Health,
Social Care & Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
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Why are we still using qPCR for the
quantification of nucleic acids?
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OLFERT LANDT
CEO TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin, Germany
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Going
to the limit of Mulitplex qPCR.
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PETAR PODLESNIY
PhD, Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Simultaneous quantification of DNA copy
number and transcripts by Selfie-dPCR.
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Main
topic:
Integrative Big Data Analysis
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KEYNOTE
LECTURE:
FABIAN THEIS
Prof. PhD, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München, Neuherberg, Germany
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Data science and network modeling in biomedicine. |
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THOMAS CLAVEL
Head of Junior
Research Group "Intestinal Microbiome" and "Mikrobiom Core Facility"
ZIEL Research Center for
Nutrition and Food Sciences, TU-München, Freising, Germany
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IMNGS -- A comprehensive open resource of
processed 16S rRNA microbial profiles for ecology and diversity studies.
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ANDRES GOMEZ
PhD, Staff Scientist, J. Craig Venter Institute, Capricorn Lane,
La Jolla, CA, USA
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Meta-OMIC
reconstruction in the gut microbiome of wild primates: Impactions for
human origins. |
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DANIEL BREWER
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Cancer Genetics, Norwich Medical School,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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Unravelling
the evolution of prostate cancer through whole genome sequence data. |
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Main
topic: Biomarker Signatures
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PASCAL BARBRY
Directeur Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire,
CNRS/UNSA UMR7275,
F06560 Sophia Antipolis, France
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Studying
airway epithelium differentiation by integration of large scale data. |
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MICHAEL
W. PFAFFL
Prof.
of Molecular Physiology, Animal Physiology & Immunology, TUM
Weihenstephan, Germany
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The potentials of isomiRs -- a new
dimension in biomarker research.
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FELIX SAHM
MD, Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital Heidelberg,
Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuropathology, German Cancer Research
Center, Heidelberg, Germany
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High-throughput routine Assessment of
molecular Markers in Brain Tumors.
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ANDREAS WEINHÄUSEL
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Molekulare Diagnostik,
Austria
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Diagnostic Performance of Plasma DNA
Methylation Profiles in LungCancer, Pulmonary Fibrosis and COPD.
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Digital
PCR
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KEYNOTE
LECTURE:
JIM
HUGGETT
PhD, Science Leader, Nucleic Acid Metrology, LGC & Senior Lecturer,
Analytical Microbiology, University of Surrey, UK
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Unprecedented
accuracy when using digital PCR. |
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VALERIE TALY
PhD, group leader, INSERM Université Paris Descartes UMRS1147,
CNRS SNC 5014, Equipe Labellisée Ligue nationale contre le
cancer (LNCC), France
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Droplet based digital PCR for circulating
tumor DNA monitoring.
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CHRISTOPH WINTER
PhD, MD, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and
Pathobiochemistry, TUM, Germany
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Liquid profiling of RNA and DNA for
treatment response prediction and monitoring of cancer patients.
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STEFAN RÖDIGER
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Brandenburg University of Technology
Cottbus-Senftenberg, Senftenberg, Germany
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Methods for analysis digital PCR
experiments - Lessons we learned from the qPCR technology.
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MARY ALIKIAN
PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK
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RT-Digital PCR for the evaluation of
residual disease in chronic myeloid leukaemia.
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PAMELA PINZANI
PhD, University of Florence, Department of Biomedical, Experimental and
Clinical Sciences, Florence, Italy
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Detection
of EGFR mutations in cell-free DNA from patients affected by lung
cancer. |
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SVEN PECORARO
PhD, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Oberschleissheim,
Germany
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Transferring qPCR Methods into a droplet
digital PCR format – Experiences from official food and feed control in
GMO analysis.
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REMI DANGLA
CEO, Stilla
Technologies, Villejuif,
Fance
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Monitoring EGFR mutations in lung cancer
patients using 3-color Crystal Digital PCR.
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Non-coding
RNAs -- microRNA, small RNAs, long non-coding RNAs
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KEYNOTE
LECTURE:
PIETER
MESTDAGH
Prof. at Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Cancer Research
Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium
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Cancer-specific
long non-coding RNAs as novel biomarkers and targets for therapy.
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ARTEMIS HATZIGEORGIOU
University of Thessaly, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Ampelokipi, Athens,
Greece
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In
silico functional analysis of microRNA : Towards the characterisation
of miRNAs as biomarkers. |
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NIKOLA MUELLER
PhD, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum
München, Neuherberg, Germany
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Holistic analysis of lncRNA function using
a graph database.
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STEFAN AMERES
PhD, Group Leader, IMBA (Institute of Molecular
Biotechnology), Vienna, Austria
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Epitranscriptomic regulation of non-coding
RNAs.
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MICHAEL THORSEN
R&D, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark
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NGS and qPCR analysis of RNA and microRNA
in Biofluids and Exosomes.
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MicroGenomics
& Single-cells diagnostics
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KEYNOTE
LECTURE:
ANDERS
STAHLBERG
Prof. and Senior
Scientist, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Ultrasensitive
mutation detection in liquid biopsies using SiMSen-Seq.
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RADEK SINDELKA
Senior researcher, Insitute
of Biotechnology, BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ
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Whole transcriptome subcellular profiling
of the Xenopus oocyte.
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AFIF MICHAEL ABDEL NOUR
Bio-Rad, Marketing segment manager genomics, EMEA
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A
deeper understanding starts with a single cell. |
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LUKAS VALIHRACH
Senior researcher, Insitute
of Biotechnology, BTU, Czech
Academy of Sciences, CZ
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In
vivo reactivation of astrocytes characterized by single cell expression
profiling. |
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STEFAN GÜNTHER
PhD, Max-Planck-Institut für Herz- und Lungenforschung, ECCPS
Bioinformatics and deep sequencing platform Bad Nauheim, Germany
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High resolution
single-cell analysis in complex adult tissues.
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WIELAND KEILHOLZ
R&D, BD Genomics, BD, USA
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An Integrated Workflow For Single Cell
Analysis That Helps To Uncover Tumor Heterogeneity.
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Next Generation
Sequencing (NGS)
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JUSTIN O’GRADY
Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Norwich Medical School, University of
East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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Rapid
metagenomics based diagnosis of hospital acquired and ventillator
associated pneumonia.
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MICHAEL SCHLOTER
Head of EGEN (Research Unit Environmental Genomics) Helmholtz Zentrum
München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und
Umwelt, Neuherberg, Munich, Germany
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From
qualitative to quantitative data in microbiome analysis: Using
metagenomics for qPCR validation. |
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VLADIMIR BENES
PhD, Head
of GeneCore @ EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
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Nanopore Sequencing - Entering New Next.
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ANNA EDLUND
PhD Microbiology, Assistant Professor Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter
Institute, La Jolla CA, USA
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The human oral microbiome -- an
experimental
model for understanding health and disease.
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PETER ULZ
Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Inferring expressed genes by whole-genome
sequencing of plasma DNA.
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BJOERN TEXTOR
PhD, R&D, New England Biolabs GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany
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A Novel Approach for Selective Enrichment
of Custom Gene Targets for Oncology Research.
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BURKHARD ROLF
PD & PhD, Director DNA Forensic Services, Eurofins Medigenomix
Forensik
GmbH, Ebersberg, Germany
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Forensic
application of microbiome profiling.
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CHRISTIAN ZINSER
Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany
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Interpretation of small variants in human
genetics.
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YI JIN
R&D, Senior Scientist, Quanta
BioSciences, Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Simplified workflows for high efficiency
NGS library preparation.
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DAVID LANGENBERGER
CEO, Phd, ecSeq GmbH, Leipzig, Germany
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Challenges
of targeted NGS analyses. |
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AMORESE DOUG
R&D, NuGEN Technologies Inc, San Carlos, CA, USA
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Sensitive NGS method for the analysis of
microbial and viral nucleic acid in cell free RNA.
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AMIT SINHA
Founder and CEO, Basepair, New York, NY, USA
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Overcoming
NGS analysis bottlenecks with a systematic, scalable system. |
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Molecular
Diagnostics in Life Science
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SIMON BAKER
R&D, Bioline Reagents Ltd, London, UK
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A novel assay system for improved
specificity and sensitivity of miRNA detection for all the major model
organisms.
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ANNA GANI
AB ANALITICA, Italy
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Validation Of Clinical Diagnostic Real-Time
PCR Kits On AriaMX-DX. |
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MIQE
& QM & Standardisation strategies in molecular diagnostics
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KEYNOTE
LECTURE:
MIKAEL
KUBISTA
Prof.
of Biotechnology, BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences & TATAA
Biocenter,
Sweden
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Validation
of qPCR assays.
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JENS BJÖRKMAN
R&D, TATAA
Biocenter,
Sweden
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Testing
mRNA quality – the DDAmp approach.
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HANNA OLDFIELD
PhD, Product
Management, 4Titude, Surrey Hills Business Park, Wotton, Surrey, UK
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Influence of PCR consumables on the
accuracy of quantitative real-time PCR experiments and NGS sample
preparation.
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MATJAZ HREN
PhD, CTO, SCINOTE LLC, Middleton, WI, USA
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Digital Paperless Future of Science. |
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Technical
Lunch-Time Seminars
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CAIFU CHEN
Sr. Vice President of R&D, Integrated DNA Technologies, Redwood
City, CA, USA
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Development of
multiplex rhPCR for Amplicon
Sequencing.
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KRISTIN BELTZ
Staff Scientist, Genomics R&D, Integrated DNA
Technologies, Redwood
City, CA, USA
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Better and Affordable rhPCR-based New SNP
Genotyping Solution.
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Mikael Kubista & Amin Forootan
MultiD & TATAA Biocenter Sweden, Göteborg, Sweden
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GenEx
the ultimate tool for qPCR data analysis. |
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FRED RUSSELL KRAMER
Professor of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, New
Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
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SuperSelective Primers for Low-cost,
Multiplex, Real-time PCR Assays
that Measure the Abundance of Extremely Rare Mutant DNA Fragments
Associated with Cancer.
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