2012 Symposium Schedule

Technology Partners

9:30 am – 9:50 am

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

Genetic Stability in Mouse Models of Disease Charles Miller, PhD The Jackson Laboratory

10:10 am – 10:30 am

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

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

MiSeq:  Advancing the Boundaries of NGS through Superior Performance   Michael G. Smith, Ph. D. Sequencing Specialist, Northeast Illumina

11:10 am – 11:30 am

Multiplex Gene Panel Target Enrichment for Next-generation Sequencing   Vikram Devgan, PhD, MBA

Ben Barone Molecular Biology Scientist Thermo Scientific – Genomics

Poster Session 

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11:30 am – 1:30 pm 

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Opening Remarks 

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1:30 pm – Dr. Karen H. Antmann, Dean of Boston University School of Medicine 

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Oral Presentations

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1:45 pm – Arthur Lambert (Sam Thiagalingam Lab)

Periostin signaling regulates breast cancer stem cells

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2:05 pm – Anna Lyubetskaya (James Galagan Lab)

Using ChiP-Seq for transcription factor binding sites prediction and validation in M. tuberculosis

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2:25 pm – Hila Milo Rasouly (Weining Lu Lab)

Loss of Robo2 Improves Survival of ILK Mutant Mice

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2:45 pm - Kristen Ott (Caryn Navarro Lab)

Characterizing Spindle-E, a protein involved in guarding the genome

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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