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