NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING
is driving growth within the basic and biomedical research communities as rapidly as the bases are being sequenced. All agree, however, that with the implementation of any new technology there is a balancing act of cost-quality-quantity. The potential applications are as numerous as the samples to be analyzed. Each next-generation platform is optimized for specific sequencing applications. Cambridge Healthtech In-stitute’s Third Annual Next-Generation Sequencing offers an unparalleled opportunity to compare and contrast the next-generation sequencing
platforms to best suit your research needs.

Sequencing Tech Expo
Next-Generation Sequencing is alive, thriving, and driving discovery. As costs come down and ease increases, these new massively parallel high-throughput sequencing platforms are infiltrating multiple aspects of traditional biological research. However, each next-generation se-quencing platform best lends itself to specific sequencing goals. This Tech Expo showcases the next-generation sequencing platforms to help you make informed purchasing decisions.

Sponsored Seminars Hosted by:

Applied Biosystems  

Helicos Biosciences Corporation  

Illumina  

Pacific Biosciences (Invited)

Roche/454  

Targeted Sample Enrichment

SCODA Electrophoresis for Biomolecule Concentration
Andre Marziali, Ph.D., Director, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia

Probing the Epigenome of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells with Methylome Partitioning
Kun Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego

Targeted  Extraction of Specific Non-Contiguous Loci on Mouse Chromosome 1 for Next-Generation Sequencing with HybSelectTM
Daniel Summerer, Ph.D., Head of Application Development, Enzyme-on-Chip Technologies, febit gmbh

Combination of Microfluidics and Next Generation Sequencing for Targeted Sequencing of Multiple Human Genomic Loci
Ewen Kirkness, Ph.D., Investigator, J. Craig Venter Institute

Data Management and Analysis

Gene Wiki: Community Intelligence Applied to Gene Annotation
Andrew Su, Ph.D., Group Leader, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation

Assembling Short and Error-Prone DNA Reads:  Does the Read Length Matter?
Pavel Pevzner, Ph.D., Professor, Computer Science Engineering, University of California San Diego

The Sequence of Individual Genomes
Pauline Ng, Ph.D., Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute

Next-Next Gen Sequencing

Revolutionizing Complete Human Genome Sequencing
Radoje Drmanac, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Complete Genomics

Single Molecule Mega-Genomic Analysis in Nanochannel Array
Michael Boyce-Jacino, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, BioNanomatrix, Inc.

The PinPoint Sequencer – High-Throughput, Low Cost DNA Sequencing
Jerzy Olejnik, Ph.D., Vice President, Process Research & Development, Intelligent Bio-Systems, Inc.

Applications and Case Studies

Capturing and Sequencing the Protein Coding Genome
Jay Shendure, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences, University of Washington   

From ChIP-chip to ChIP-Seq: Unraveling The Second Code of the Human Genome
David Hawkins, Ph.D.,  Ren Lab, University of California San Diego

Metagenomics as a New Challenge for Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies
Ludmilla Chistoserdova, Research Scientist, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington
Alla Lapidus, Ph.D., Group Leader, Joint Genome Research Institute

Whole Transcriptome Sequencing of Cancer Biopsies for Concurrent Analysis of Expression, Splicing and Mutation
Trevor Pugh, B.Sc., Ph.D. Candidate, Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency
Ryan Morin, B.Sc., M. Sc., Ph.D. Student, Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency