programme

TUESDAY, MAY 7

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

08:15 - 08:45

Welcome & Registration

08:45 - 09:00

Opening Remarks

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome & Registration

KEYNOTE

09:00 - 10:00

BIOSCAN: Illuminating multi-cellular species and their symbiomes

PAUL HEBERT

- University of Guelph, Canada

KEYNOTE

09:00 - 10:00

Towards Precision Medicine

EUAN ASHLEY

- Stanford University, USA

10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break

LECTURE

10:20 - 10:45

Circular DNA enrichment for full-length sequencing of viral and host extra-chromosomal DNA

HERVE VANDERSCHUREN

- University of Liege, Belgium

LECTURE

10:20 - 10:45

The added value of long read amplicon sequencing for clinical applications

KORNELIA NEVELING

- Radboud UMC, Netherlands

LECTURE

10:45 - 11:10

Chromosome-level assembly of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia)

HENRI VAN DE GEEST

- Genetwister Technologies, Netherlands

LECTURE

10:45 - 11:10

Characterizing population-level haplotype diversity in the human immunoglobulin loci

MELISSA SMITH

- Icahn School of Medicine, USA

LECTURE

11:10 - 11:35

A publicly available and usable reference genome of Cannabis sativa L.

KEVIN MCKERNAN

- Medicinal Genomics, USA

LECTURE

11:10 - 11:35

The changing genome in neurons with age and diseases

MING-HSIANG LEE

- SBP Medical Discovery Institute, USA

LECTURE

11:35 - 12:00

Why so pale and wan: Comparative genomics of a new cavefish in Europe

FRITZ SEDLAZECK

- Baylor College of Medicine, USA

LECTURE

11:35 - 12:00

Advantages of HiFi reads for variant discovery and genome assembly

WILLIAM ROWELL

- PacBio, USA

HIGHLIGHTS I

12:00 - 12:15

Poster Highlights

1-min lightening talks

SPONSOR

12:00 - 12:10

Fast, High-Resolution DNA Sizing to 165 kb with the Agilent Femto Pulse System

Agilent

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch & Networking

12:10 - 13:40

Lunch & Networking

KEYNOTE

13:45 - 14:45

Polymerization kinetics unraveled with SMRT sequencing

KATERYNA MAKOVA

- Penn State University, USA

KEYNOTE

13:40 - 14:40

Characterization of a large, human-specific tandem repeat array associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

JANET SONG

- Stanford University, USA

14:45 - 15:05

Coffee Break

14:40 - 15:00

Coffee Break

HIGHLIGHTS II

15:05 - 15:20

Poster Highlights

1-min lightening talks

LECTURE

15:00 - 15:25

Bacterial whole genome sequencing for infection control

ALEXANDER MELLMANN

- Institute of Hygiene, Germany

LECTURE

15:20 - 15:45

Nascent ribosome assembly in real-time

OLIVIER DUSS

- The Scripps Research Institute, USA

LECTURE

15:25 - 15:50

Swedish SMRT-Smorgasbord: Something sweet and something sour

OLGA VINNERE PETTERSSON

- Uppsala University, Sweden

LECTURE

15:45 - 16:10

Single Cell Transcriptome Analysis on the PacBio Sequel II platform

ELIZABETH TSENG

- PacBio, USA

LECTURE

15:50 - 16:15

The PGx of the Future: in Whole and in Precision

YAHYA ANVAR

- LUMC, Netherlands

LECTURE

16:10 - 16:35

Single cell isoform analysis in mouse haematopoiesis

IAIN MACAULAY

- Earlham Institute, UK

LECTURE

16:15 - 16:40

Structural variant detection with long read sequencing reveals driver and passenger mutations in a melanoma cell line

MEREDITH ASHBY

- PacBio, USA

16:35 - 17:00

Coffee Break

16:40 - 17:00

Coffee Break

KEYNOTE

17:00 - 18:00

Low input and its major impact for vector biology and the Darwin Tree of Life Project

MARA LAWNICZAK

- Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

KEYNOTE

17:00 - 18:00

Long-read sequencing of structurally variant genomes

EVAN EICHLER

- University of Washington, USA

18:30 - 20:00

Conference Drinks & Networking Mixer

THURSDAY MORNING

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

08:30 - 08:45

Welcome & Registration

08:45 - 09:00

Opening Remarks

KEYNOTE

09:00 - 10:00

Longer reads or more accurate reads: which is better for de novo sequencing?

GENE MYERS

- MPI-CBG, Germany

LECTURE

10:00 - 10:30

SMRT Link and Analysis Tools for PacBio data

TZVETANA KERELSKA

- PacBio, USA

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

SESSION 1

11:00 - 12:10

ISO-SEQ ANALYSIS

moderator: ELIZABETH TSENG

SESSION 2

13:40 - 15:40

WHOLE GENOME ANALYSIS

moderator: FRITZ SEDLAZECK

Scalable accurate read generation

IVAN SOVIC - PacBio, USA

Haplotype-aware diplotyping from long reads

JANA EBLER - Saarland University, Germany

PRINCESS: Framework for comprehensive detection and phasing of SNP & SVs

FRITZ SEDLAZECK - Baylor College of Medicine, USA

pbsv - Detecting structural variants with confidence

ARMIN TOEPFER - PacBio, Germany

Open Discussion

Iso-Seq data assessment, analysis, and annotation with TAMA

RICHARD KUO - The Roslin Institute, UK

Understanding the functional role of isoform expression with IsoAnnot and tappAS

ANA CONESA - University of Florida, USA

Open Discussion

15:40 - 16:10

Coffee Break

SESSION 4

16:10 - 17:20

TARGETED SEQUENCING APPLICATIONS

moderator: ARMIN TOEPFER

The curious case of long amplicon analysis and allele deconvolution

YAHYA ANVAR - LUMC, Netherlands

High-throughput screening of large amplicons

SVEN WARRIS - Wageningen University, Netherlands

Open Discussion

12:10 - 13:40

Lunch & Networking

17:20 - 17:30

Discussion and Closing Remarks

FINAL PROGRAMME