Applied genomics is the use of genomic (or molecular medicine) to diagnose and manage disease based on PCR, DNA sequencing or other tests.
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Date: April 05, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEDT) Members of the cinnamic acid and stilbenoid chemical families are common intermediates in the production of important bi...
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CET) Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are the most widely used clinical sample types in histology and molecular...
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) The US horticulture industry suffers approximately $60 billion in losses each year as a result of...
Targeted NGS has been instrumental in helping the healthcare community deliver on the promise of precision medicine. The Ion Torrent Genexus Integrated Sequencer has enabled targeted genomic...
Date: March 24, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 4:00pm (GMT) Key to precision oncology is the development of expert databases that organize and standardize information on cancer-rel...
Date: March 02, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Single cell RNA-seq is known to only capture a small fraction of the transcriptome of each cell. Often, this is due to inherent limitat...
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) One of the largest global public health crises is the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Globally, over 700,000 people die...
Date: January 25, 2022 Time: 8:00am (CET) 9:00AM (SAST) Globally, in 2020, 38 million people were living with HIV with an additional 1.5 million newly i...
Date: December 9, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00am (EDT) CRISPR editing has revolutionized plant breeding, and the MAD7 CRISPR nuclease developed by InscriptaTM is democratizing access to CR...
DATE: November 17, 2021 TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00am EST, 4:00pm CET Filamentous fungi are historically known to be a rich reservoir of bioactive compounds that are applied in a myriad of field...
Lab-on-a-chip platforms enable advanced processing, manipulation, and analysis of biological samples in miniaturized fluidic devices. Despite the numerous advantages, such as lower reagent a...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 10:00am PST Conjugated antibodies and proteins are some of the most powerful and commonly used probes currently used in life sciences research. Understanding th...
Copy number variant (CNV) analysis has been part of clinical diagnostics for almost two decades. With the evolution of genomic technologies for CNV detection, we have learned that CNVs can r...
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) The retina is the light-sensing part of the visual system and is composed of six neuron types and several non-neuronal cell types, wi...
Date: October 14, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Heterologous protein expression in model organisms has many applications, including protein engineering, production of industrial enz...
Date: October 13, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 01:00pm (EDT) Clinically-relevant applications, such as somatic variant detection, continue to push the bounds...
Join me, an applied epidemiologist with boots on the ground, as we review key discoveries learned from the reopening of sports, entertainment and the arts. The four pillars of reopening incl...
SARS-CoV-2 is an emergent virus. Specifically how it will adapt to human hosts and populations with growing immunity is unknown. Coronaviruses acquire substitutions more slowly than other RN...
Summary: Cancer neoantigens are highly specific to the tumor, potently immunogenic and can be targeted by both vaccines and engineered cellular therapies. This talk will introduce the defini...