Neurodevelopmental Disorders: are a group of disorders in which the development of the central nervous system is disturbed. This can involve developmental brain dysfunction, which can manifest as neuropsychiatric problems or impaired motor function, learning, language or non-verbal communication.
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is common and usually results in a mild, non-specific illness in otherwise healthy individuals followed by asymptomatic latency. However, congenital CMV...
NanoString has started an ambitious project called the "Spatial Organ Atlas." The goal of this initiative is to map the architecture of tissues with spatially resolved whole transc...
Date: September 09, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) hold great potentials in regenerative therapies. In this webinar, Chao will first present the c...
Somatic mutations that arise during development are increasingly recognized as contributors to neurodevelopmental disease. One challenge has been to determine how mosaic mutations contribute...
Precise diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), which often have genetic causes, is a challenging and important problem. Here we describe the results of a recent pilot study using...
Recently, long-read sequencing with high accuracy has become a reality. Previous technologies allowed for the detection of particular classes of genetic variation and/or have focused on pre-...
Approximately 1 out of every 3 children with epilepsy do not respond to conventional medications, resulting in significant disruption in quality of life. The CDC states that one in 54 childr...
DATE: December 2, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) research is a continuously evolving field that beholds great promises for the future. The great application potential of P...
DATE: September 2, 2020 TIME: 03:00pm PDT, 6:00pm EDT Spatial omics is an expanding collection of methods to examine biological molecules in their geographical context. By retaining the prec...
DATE: August 25, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 10:00am CDT, 11:00am EDT Recombinant lentivirus (LV) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) are critical components of cell and gene therapies, which show g...
Achieving a diagnosis in rare disease patients can be challenging for even the most experienced clinician or scientist, creating a barrier to delivering truly personalised care. An exome seq...
DATE: August 27, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Immunotherapies targeting PD-1 or PD-L1 have proven remarkably effective for treating cancer in some patients, with considerabl...
Preclinical drug discovery is at the edge of a major transformation that promises to improve translation to the clinic through enhanced acquisition and advanced analysis of data. While an imp...
DATE: October 16, 2018TIME: 7:00m PDT, 10:00am EDT 22q11 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) is a genomic disorder caused by a microdeletion of chromosome 22 that occurs...
Treatments for respiratory diseases represent an enormous, unmet medical need with limited therapies currently approved for use. Despite many compounds demonstrating beneficial effects in ani...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex group of individually rare neurological conditions with genetic and non-genetic causes. Despite the strong genetic component of ASD, it has been ve...
Since its initial description more than 70 years ago, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been diagnosed more frequently in boys. However, we remain unsure of why males are affected in greater...
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the Methyl CpG Binding Protein 2 (MECP2) gene. In mouse models of RTT, deficits in long-term potentiation (LTP) at...
There is a growing debate about the usefulness of animal studies in biomedical research and drug development. Some of the challenges in translation from animals to human patients may be from...
My talk shall encompass how the stem cell research field has evolved from embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells and currently induced pluripotent stem cells with special reference to the f...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CESTNeurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are clinically and etiologically highly heterogeneous and are characterized by a...
Much has been said about the promise of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to revolutionise diagnosis of rare diseases, and there are many examples of success in this arena. However, the majori...
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is common and usually results in a mild, non-specific illness in otherwise healthy individuals followed by asymptomatic latency. However, congenital CMV...
NanoString has started an ambitious project called the "Spatial Organ Atlas." The goal of this initiative is to map the architecture of tissues with spatially resolved whole transc...
Date: September 09, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) hold great potentials in regenerative therapies. In this webinar, Chao will first present the c...
Somatic mutations that arise during development are increasingly recognized as contributors to neurodevelopmental disease. One challenge has been to determine how mosaic mutations contribute...
Precise diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), which often have genetic causes, is a challenging and important problem. Here we describe the results of a recent pilot study using...
Recently, long-read sequencing with high accuracy has become a reality. Previous technologies allowed for the detection of particular classes of genetic variation and/or have focused on pre-...
Approximately 1 out of every 3 children with epilepsy do not respond to conventional medications, resulting in significant disruption in quality of life. The CDC states that one in 54 childr...
DATE: December 2, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) research is a continuously evolving field that beholds great promises for the future. The great application potential of P...
DATE: September 2, 2020 TIME: 03:00pm PDT, 6:00pm EDT Spatial omics is an expanding collection of methods to examine biological molecules in their geographical context. By retaining the prec...
DATE: August 25, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 10:00am CDT, 11:00am EDT Recombinant lentivirus (LV) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) are critical components of cell and gene therapies, which show g...
Achieving a diagnosis in rare disease patients can be challenging for even the most experienced clinician or scientist, creating a barrier to delivering truly personalised care. An exome seq...
DATE: August 27, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Immunotherapies targeting PD-1 or PD-L1 have proven remarkably effective for treating cancer in some patients, with considerabl...
Preclinical drug discovery is at the edge of a major transformation that promises to improve translation to the clinic through enhanced acquisition and advanced analysis of data. While an imp...
DATE: October 16, 2018TIME: 7:00m PDT, 10:00am EDT 22q11 Deletion Syndrome (22q11DS) is a genomic disorder caused by a microdeletion of chromosome 22 that occurs...
Treatments for respiratory diseases represent an enormous, unmet medical need with limited therapies currently approved for use. Despite many compounds demonstrating beneficial effects in ani...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex group of individually rare neurological conditions with genetic and non-genetic causes. Despite the strong genetic component of ASD, it has been ve...
Since its initial description more than 70 years ago, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been diagnosed more frequently in boys. However, we remain unsure of why males are affected in greater...
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the Methyl CpG Binding Protein 2 (MECP2) gene. In mouse models of RTT, deficits in long-term potentiation (LTP) at...
There is a growing debate about the usefulness of animal studies in biomedical research and drug development. Some of the challenges in translation from animals to human patients may be from...
My talk shall encompass how the stem cell research field has evolved from embryonic stem cells to adult stem cells and currently induced pluripotent stem cells with special reference to the f...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CESTNeurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are clinically and etiologically highly heterogeneous and are characterized by a...
Much has been said about the promise of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to revolutionise diagnosis of rare diseases, and there are many examples of success in this arena. However, the majori...