SMRT SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM
SMRT INFORMATICS DEVELOPERS MEETING
The 2019 SMRTLeiden Meeting includes two back-to-back events: SMRT Scientific Symposium and the fourth European SMRT Informatics Developers Meeting. The SMRT Scientific Symposium is a two-day event on May 7 and 8 that features presentations from key experts and opinion leaders sharing their scientific discoveries and novel analytical achievements using PacBio sequencing platforms. This event is packed with inspirational lectures that highlight the latest achievements in various fields: from microbes to human health. The SMRT Informatics Developers Conference is a one-day collaborative event on May 9 that focuses on developing and improving analysis tools for PacBio SMRT Sequencing data. This event is packed with several short presentations, in-person brainstorming and idea exchange among software developers and the bioinformatics community concentrate on advancement of new and existing open-source tools for de novo assembly, genome phasing, structural variations, base modification and Iso-Seq analysis.
EUAN ASHLEY
Group Leader
Stanford University, USA
EVAN EICHLER
Group Leader
University of Washington, USA
MARA LAWNICZAK
Group Leader
Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
KATERYNA MAKOVA
Group Leader
Penn State University, USA
PAUL HEBERT
Group Leader
University of Guelph, Canada
JANET SONG
Graduate Student
Stanford University, USA
GENE MYERS
Director & Group Leader
MPI-CBG, Germany
SMRT COLORS BY ALEX CAGAN
CONNECT WITH OTHER SMRT-MINDED SCIENTISTS IN EUROPE!
It gives me great pleasure to invite you on behalf of Human Genetics department of Leiden University Medical Center to Leiden for the fourth edition of the SMRTLeiden Meeting from May 7 - 9, 2019. We are looking forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Leiden and we are very excited to be a host to such an outstanding lineup of speakers highlighting their inspirational and breakthrough achievements enabled by SMRT Sequencing technology. This forum is for all scientists active in fields such as genetics, transcriptomics and epigenetics to review the latest developments and explore potential collaborations. I, for one, am certainly looking forward to various opportunities to meet, brainstorm, and exchange ideas and I hope you are too. Join your colleagues for a great meeting in Leiden in May, 2019.
Yahya Anvar, Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
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Accepted poster will be automatically reviewed for a chance to be crowned Best Abstract and we are also offering a Travel Grant to one lucky submitter.
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SMRTLEIDEN MAY 7 - 9
Leiden University Medical Center
Buruma Hall, Hippocratespad 21(Building 3), 2333 ZD Leiden, Netherlands
contact us at SMRT-Leiden@lumc.nl, should you require any assistance!