Confirmed Speakers & Talk Titles

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Symposium Talk and Poster sessions:
 


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in
lecture_hall_14_(HS14)
and
lecture hall 15 (HS15)

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Main topic:   Liquid Biopsy & Circulating NAs

Title  (preliminary)

Speakers Papers
KEYNOTE LECTURES:

JO VANDESOMPELE

Prof. at Center for Medical Genetics Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Biogazelle, Technologiepark 3, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium



RNA capture sequencing enabled liquid biopsy screening.




JAN LÖTVALL
Prof. at Krefting Research Centre, Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Extracellular vesicles and their potential as biomarkers and therapeutics.


AN HENDRIX
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium

Identification of extracellular vesicle-specific RNA signatures from human plasma.

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

Extracellular vesicle subsets and sampling strategies for nucleic acid profiling.

MIKKEL NOERHOLM
PhD, Vice President Product Development, Exosome Diagnostics, Riverside Technology Center, Cambridge, MA, USA


Exosomes - Advancing Liquid Biopsy Diagnostics.

DOMINIK BUSCHMANN
Animal Physiology & Immunology, TUM Weihenstephan, Germany

Valid biomarker signatures from liquid biopsies - how to standardize the small RNA-Seq workflow.


DAVID SVEC
Senior researcher,
Insitute of  Biotechnology, BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ

Mitochondrial transfer between cancer cells.



MARLENE REITHMAIR
Dr.med.vet., Institut für Humangenetik, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Germany


Comparative characterization of exosomal, serum and blood cell miRNA profiles in patients with sepsis.

MIRCO CASTOLDI
PhD, Group leader at the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Dusseldorf University Hospital, Dusseldorf, Germany

Extracellular Vesicles and their associated cargos in health and disease.






Main topic:   Advanced Molecular Diagnostics




KEYNOTE LECTURE:

STEPHEN A. BUSTIN
Professor of Molecular Medicine, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Faculty of Health,
Social Care & Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK



Why are we still using qPCR for the quantification of nucleic acids?


OLFERT LANDT
CEO TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin, Germany

Going to the limit of Mulitplex qPCR.

PETAR PODLESNIY
PhD, Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Simultaneous quantification of DNA copy number and transcripts by Selfie-dPCR.






Main topic:   Integrative Big Data Analysis




KEYNOTE LECTURE:

FABIAN THEIS

Prof. PhD, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany



Data science and network modeling in biomedicine.


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

IMNGS -- A comprehensive open resource of processed 16S rRNA microbial profiles for ecology and diversity studies.


ANDRES GOMEZ
PhD, Staff Scientist, J. Craig Venter Institute, Capricorn Lane, La Jolla, CA, USA


Meta-OMIC reconstruction in the gut microbiome of wild primates: Impactions for human origins.
DANIEL BREWER
PhD, Senior Lecturer, Cancer Genetics, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Unravelling the evolution of prostate cancer through whole genome sequence data.




Main topic:   Biomarker Signatures




PASCAL BARBRY
Directeur Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS/UNSA UMR7275,
F06560 Sophia Antipolis, France

Studying airway epithelium differentiation by integration of large scale data.
MICHAEL W. PFAFFL
Prof. of Molecular Physiology, Animal Physiology & Immunology, TUM Weihenstephan, Germany

The potentials of isomiRs -- a new dimension in biomarker research.

FELIX SAHM
MD, Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Clinical Cooperation Unit Neuropathology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

High-throughput routine Assessment of molecular Markers in Brain Tumors.

ANDREAS WEINHÄUSEL
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Molekulare Diagnostik, Austria

Diagnostic Performance of Plasma DNA Methylation Profiles in LungCancer, Pulmonary Fibrosis and COPD.







Digital PCR




KEYNOTE LECTURE:

JIM HUGGETT
PhD, Science Leader, Nucleic Acid Metrology, LGC & Senior Lecturer, Analytical Microbiology, University of Surrey, UK



Unprecedented accuracy when using digital PCR.



VALERIE TALY
PhD, group leader, INSERM Université Paris Descartes UMRS1147, CNRS SNC 5014, Equipe Labellisée Ligue nationale contre le cancer (LNCC), France


Droplet based digital PCR for circulating tumor DNA monitoring.

CHRISTOPH WINTER
PhD, MD, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, TUM, Germany
Liquid profiling of RNA and DNA for treatment response prediction and monitoring of cancer patients.


STEFAN RÖDIGER
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Senftenberg, Germany

Methods for analysis digital PCR experiments - Lessons we learned from the qPCR technology.

MARY ALIKIAN
PhD, Imperial College London, London, UK

RT-Digital PCR for the evaluation of residual disease in chronic myeloid leukaemia.


PAMELA PINZANI
PhD, University of Florence, Department of Biomedical, Experimental and Clinical Sciences, Florence, Italy


Detection of EGFR mutations in cell-free DNA from patients affected by lung cancer.
SVEN PECORARO
PhD, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Oberschleissheim, Germany

Transferring qPCR Methods into a droplet digital PCR format – Experiences from official food and feed control in GMO analysis.


REMI DANGLA
CEO,
Stilla Technologies, Villejuif, Fance
Monitoring EGFR mutations in lung cancer patients using 3-color Crystal Digital PCR.






Non-coding RNAs -- microRNA, small RNAs, long non-coding RNAs




KEYNOTE LECTURE:

PIETER MESTDAGH
Prof. at Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Cancer Research Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium



Cancer-specific long non-coding RNAs as novel biomarkers and targets for therapy.

ARTEMIS HATZIGEORGIOU
University of Thessaly, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Ampelokipi, Athens, Greece

In silico functional analysis of microRNA : Towards the characterisation of miRNAs as biomarkers.

NIKOLA MUELLER
PhD, Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany


Holistic analysis of lncRNA function using a graph database.

STEFAN AMERES
PhD, Group Leader, IMBA (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology), Vienna, Austria
Epitranscriptomic regulation of non-coding RNAs.

MICHAEL THORSEN
R&D, Exiqon, Vedbaek, Denmark
NGS and qPCR analysis of RNA and microRNA in Biofluids and Exosomes.






MicroGenomics & Single-cells diagnostics




KEYNOTE LECTURE:

ANDERS STAHLBERG
Prof. and Senior Scientist, Sahlgrenska Cancer Center, University of Gothenburg, Sweden



Ultrasensitive mutation detection in liquid biopsies using SiMSen-Seq.




RADEK SINDELKA
Senior researcher, Insitute of  Biotechnology, BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ

Whole transcriptome subcellular profiling of the Xenopus oocyte.


AFIF MICHAEL ABDEL NOUR
Bio-Rad, Marketing segment manager genomics, EMEA


A deeper understanding starts with a single cell.

LUKAS VALIHRACH
Senior researcher, Insitute of  Biotechnology, BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ

In vivo reactivation of astrocytes characterized by single cell expression profiling.
STEFAN GÜNTHER
PhD, Max-Planck-Institut für Herz- und Lungenforschung, ECCPS Bioinformatics and deep sequencing platform Bad Nauheim, Germany

High resolution single-cell analysis in complex adult tissues.


WIELAND KEILHOLZ
R&D, BD Genomics, BD, USA
An Integrated Workflow For Single Cell Analysis That Helps To Uncover Tumor Heterogeneity.





Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)



JUSTIN O’GRADY
Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Rapid metagenomics based diagnosis of hospital acquired and ventillator associated pneumonia.

MICHAEL SCHLOTER
Head of EGEN (Research Unit Environmental Genomics) Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Neuherberg, Munich, Germany


From qualitative to quantitative data in microbiome analysis: Using metagenomics for qPCR validation.

VLADIMIR BENES
PhD, Head of GeneCore @ EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Nanopore Sequencing - Entering New Next.

ANNA EDLUND
PhD Microbiology, Assistant Professor Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla CA, USA


The human oral microbiome -- an experimental model for understanding health and disease.

PETER ULZ
Institute of Human Genetics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria


Inferring expressed genes by whole-genome sequencing of plasma DNA.


BJOERN TEXTOR
PhD, R&D, New England Biolabs GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany

A Novel Approach for Selective Enrichment of Custom Gene Targets for Oncology Research.


BURKHARD ROLF
PD & PhD, Director DNA Forensic Services, Eurofins Medigenomix Forensik GmbH, Ebersberg, Germany

Forensic application of microbiome profiling.

CHRISTIAN ZINSER
Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany

Interpretation of small variants in human genetics.



YI JIN
R&D,
Senior Scientist, Quanta BioSciences, Perry Parkway, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Simplified workflows for high efficiency NGS library preparation.


DAVID LANGENBERGER
CEO, Phd, ecSeq GmbH, Leipzig, Germany


Challenges of targeted NGS analyses.
AMORESE DOUG
R&D, NuGEN Technologies Inc, San Carlos, CA, USA
Sensitive NGS method for the analysis of microbial and viral nucleic acid in cell free RNA.


AMIT SINHA
Founder and CEO, Basepair, New York, NY, USA


Overcoming NGS analysis bottlenecks with a systematic, scalable system.




Molecular Diagnostics in Life Science




SIMON BAKER
R&D, Bioline Reagents Ltd, London, UK

A novel assay system for improved specificity and sensitivity of miRNA detection for all the major model organisms.


ANNA GANI
AB ANALITICA, Italy
Validation Of Clinical Diagnostic Real-Time PCR Kits On AriaMX-DX.




MIQE & QM & Standardisation strategies in molecular diagnostics




KEYNOTE LECTURE:

MIKAEL KUBISTA
Prof. of  Biotechnology, BTU, Czech Academy of Sciences & TATAA Biocenter, Sweden



Validation of qPCR assays.



JENS BJÖRKMAN
R&D, TATAA Biocenter, Sweden

Testing mRNA quality – the DDAmp approach.

HANNA OLDFIELD
PhD, Product Management, 4Titude, Surrey Hills Business Park, Wotton, Surrey, UK
Influence of PCR consumables on the accuracy of quantitative real-time PCR experiments and NGS sample preparation.


MATJAZ HREN
PhD, CTO, SCINOTE LLC, Middleton, WI, USA

Digital Paperless Future of Science.




Technical Lunch-Time Seminars




CAIFU CHEN
Sr. Vice President of R&D, Integrated DNA Technologies, Redwood City, CA, USA
Development of multiplex rhPCR for Amplicon Sequencing.

KRISTIN BELTZ
Staff Scientist, Genomics R&D
, Integrated DNA Technologies, Redwood City, CA, USA
Better and Affordable rhPCR-based New SNP Genotyping Solution.

Mikael Kubista & Amin Forootan
MultiD & TATAA Biocenter Sweden, Göteborg, Sweden

GenEx ­ the ultimate tool for qPCR data analysis.
FRED RUSSELL KRAMER
Professor of Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, NJ, USA

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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