2012 Research Symposium
Technology Partners
9:30 am – 9:50 am
Ion Torrent
Ion Torrent PGM and Proton: the simplest and fastest workflow for gene panels and enabling the sub $1000 genome
Mel Hernandez
Senior DNA Sequencing Specialist
Northeast SOLiD, Ion Torrent & Capillary Electrophoresis
9:50 am – 10:10 am
Jackson Labs
Genetic Stability in Mouse Models of Disease
Charles Miller, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory
10:10 am – 10:30 am
Agilent
Platforms for Comprehensive, High-Quality Measurement: The Agilent Genomics Portfolio
Scott A. McCuine
Genomics Product Specialist
Agilent Technologies Inc.
10:30 am – 10:50 am
Affymetrix
New GeneChips for the Analysis of mRNA and miRNA in Human and Model Organism Studies
Brian Read
Affymetrix Senior Account Manager
10:50 am – 11:10 am
Illumina
MiSeq: Advancing the Boundaries of NGS through Superior Performance
Michael G. Smith, Ph. D.
Sequencing Specialist, Northeast
Illumina
11:10 am – 11:30 am
QIAGEN
Multiplex Gene Panel Target Enrichment for Next-generation Sequencing
Vikram Devgan, PhD, MBA
Thermo Scientific-Genomics
Ben Barone
Molecular Biology Scientist
Thermo Scientific – Genomics
Poster Session
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Opening Remarks
1:30 pm – Dr. Karen H. Antmann, Dean of Boston University School of Medicine
Oral Presentations
1:45 pm – Arthur Lambert (Sam Thiagalingam Lab)
Periostin signaling regulates breast cancer stem cells
2:05 pm – Anna Lyubetskaya (James Galagan Lab)
Using ChiP-Seq for transcription factor binding sites prediction and validation in M. tuberculosis
2:25 pm – Hila Milo Rasouly (Weining Lu Lab)
Loss of Robo2 Improves Survival of ILK Mutant Mice
2:45 pm – Kristen Ott (Caryn Navarro Lab)
Characterizing Spindle-E, a protein involved in guarding the genome
3:05 pm – Zachery Hunter (Steven Treon Lab – Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
Copy Number and Small Variant Analysis from Whole Genome Sequencing of 30 Patients with Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia