Clinical & Molecular DX Webinars

Advances in clinical laboratory techniques and molecular analysis are reshaping our approach to therapy and diagnosis. Explore emerging diagnostic technology and the latest insights in the microbial community in these webinars.

NOV 09, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Autoantibodies in Myositis: Clinical Importance and Current Laboratory...

Inflammatory myopathies are a group of rare diseases that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness due to chronic skeletal muscle inflammation. Classification of these rare diseases...

Speaker: Matthew Lafrenière, PhD

Presented at: Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series 2022

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NOV 09, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Equity in Laboratory Medicine

In spite of significant progress in disease diagnosis and treatment, racial and ethnic minorities experience lower quality of care and poorer outcomes for certain conditions than non-minorit...

Speaker: Christina Pierre, PhD, DABCC FAACC

Presented at: Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series 2022

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NOV 09, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Tumor Markers as Cancer Screening and Surveillance Tools

Cancer is a heterogeneous but related group of diseases wherein cells in certain tissues of the body proliferate uncontrollably and eventually invade adjacent and distant tissues. The oldest...

Speaker: Vrajesh Pandya, PhD

Presented at: Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series 2022

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NOV 09, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Monitoring Intact Light Chain of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies...

Each year, more monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are approved by regulatory agencies to treat a wide range of diseases with an expected market value of over $200 billion by 2026. The advantage o...

Speaker: Yvonne Song, PhD, BSc

Presented at: Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series 2022
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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NOV 09, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Accelerating Monkeypox and SARS-CoV-2 Virus Whole Genome Sequencing...

Rapid genomic surveillance of pathogens can provide valuable insights, in order to guide public health interventions. Novel workflows using nanopore technology enables for real-time sequenci...

Speaker: Anton van den Ouden

Presented at: Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series 2022

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NOV 07, 2022 | 9:00 PM

The Basics of Protein Analysis Topic 1: Fundamental of antibodies...

Date: November 8, 2022 Time: 1:00pm (SGT), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00am (CET) Antibodies are vital tools in many of the laboratory techniques that are used...

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Lim , Dr. Audrey Lim

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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NOV 03, 2022 | 7:00 AM

Prepare your lab for Flu Season with Multiplex PCR

Date: November 3, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) In this webinar, our speakers will provide an introduction into the epidemiology of influenza A/B, RSV, COVID-19, Aden...

Speaker: Lauren Miller , Peter Friebe, Ph.D.

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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NOV 02, 2022 | 7:00 AM

Unveil the inflammatory response with novel assays for protein...

Date: November 2, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) As part of the immune response, inflammation plays a vital role in the host defense and is dictated by the balance bet...

Speaker: Sigrun Badrnya, PhD

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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NOV 01, 2022 | 9:00 AM

Performance comparison of Bruker MBT Sepsityper® Kit US IVD for...

Date: November 1, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CET) Rapid and efficient organism identification and antimicrobial susceptibility reports are paramount for patient survival...

Speaker: Lindsey Singer, MS

Sponsored By: Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics

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OCT 26, 2022 | 11:00 AM

COVID-19: looking ahead to winter 2022-23 and beyond

Date: October 26, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) To control and monitor the epidemiology and diffusion of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV...

Speaker: Giuliana Lo Cascio

Sponsored By: Diasorin

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OCT 26, 2022 | 10:00 AM

PCR Testing Reveals the SUC is Not So Golden of a Standard of...

Date: October 26, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) In this webinar, Dr. Becky Winslow, infectious disease clinical scientist, details urinary tract infections’ inc...

Speaker: Becky Winslow, BS, PharmD , Mayil Shanmugam, PhD

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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OCT 20, 2022 | 11:00 AM

Procalcitonin (PCT) - Catalyst in Antibiotic Stewardship

Date: October 20, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Bacterial and viral infections produce a wide range of similar signs and symptoms leading often to the inappropriate u...

Speaker: Dr. James Neuenschwander MD, FACEP, FASAM

Sponsored By: Abbott

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OCT 20, 2022 | 8:00 AM

Producing Recombinant Proteins with the Baculovirus Expression...

Date: October 20, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Over the past three decades, baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) has become one of the most powerful and robus...

Speaker: Xuejiao Zhang

Sponsored By: Sino Biological

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OCT 20, 2022 | 2:00 PM

Simplify the Development and Implementation of Diagnostic Testing...

Date: October 20, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CET) Many laboratories around the world have adopted expanded diagnostic testing capabilities to address the coronavirus pan...

Speaker: Mara G. Aspinall , Michael Donovan, PhD, JD , Marilyn Owens, PhD, MBA

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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OCT 19, 2022 | 12:00 PM

Enabling Sequencing Applications with Improved Transposase-Based...

Date: October 19, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PDT), 3:00pm (EDT), 9:00pm (CEST) The capacity and speed of modern DNA sequencing platforms has allowed sequencing to become an integral component of bi...

Speaker: Joseph C. Mellor, Ph.D. , Curtis Knox , Jessica Smith, Ph.D.

Sponsored By: seqWell

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OCT 19, 2022 | 9:00 AM

Efficient culturing of human mesenchymal stromal cells for cell...

Date: October 19, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Stem cell therapy, in which stem cells are used for disease treatment or tissue repair, is an increasingly active area...

Speaker: Kanika Singh

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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OCT 11, 2022 | 8:00 AM

Smarter sample preparation for single-cell sequencing

Date: October 11, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Multiomic profiling of cell populations at single-cell resolution is revolutionizing scientists’ understanding o...

Speaker: Carina Emery

Sponsored By: Miltenyi Biotec

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AUG 16, 2022 | 8:00 AM

Educational Webinar: TORCH infections - screening vs. diagnosis

Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Physicians caring for expecting or pregnant mothers successfully manage pregnancy with the help of screening and diagno...

Speaker: Claudio Galli, MD, PhD

Sponsored By: Abbott

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MAY 18, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Recent Advances in Lyophilized qPCR Reagents

The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provide quick results while delivering expected performanc...

Speaker: Olivier Bricaud, PhD

Presented at: Laboratory Automation Virtual Event Series 2022
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 17, 2022 | 7:00 AM

Technology Platforms for Monoclonal Antibody Development and Production

Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Monoclonal antibody (mAb) is generated from a single clone of an antibody-producing cell and recognizes one specific epitop...

Speaker: Amy Sheng, Ph.D.

Sponsored By: Sino Biological

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MAY 05, 2022 | 9:00 AM

NSF456-Vaccine Storage: A New Standard Detailing Requirements...

Date: May 5, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) In a time when there is global urgency around producing and deploying as many COVID-19 vaccines as...

Speaker: Chase Heibel

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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MAY 03, 2022 | 8:00 AM

The development of GMP-manufactured Cas9 protein for therapeutic...

Date: May 03, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) CRISPR-Cas9 is one of the most commonly leveraged non-viral editing tools to engineer cells for therapeutics applications....

Speaker: Pandhita Pochanard

Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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APR 28, 2022 | 9:00 AM

Beyond infection prevention and control: How genome sequencing...

Date: April 28, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) During previous webinars we have discussed the global impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) infections, explored biolo...

Speaker: Arne Materna, PhD

Sponsored By: OpGen

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APR 21, 2022 | 12:00 PM

Recent Advances in Lyophilized qPCR Reagents

The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provide quick results while delivering expected performanc...

Speaker: Olivier Bricaud, PhD

Presented at: Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2022
Sponsored By: Thermo Fisher Scientific

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APR 21, 2022 | 5:30 AM

Standardization of the Interpretation and Reporting of Sequence...

Accurate classification of genetic alterations is important to ensure the provision of high-quality clinical data. For interpretation of germline alterations, there are standardized guidelin...

Speaker: Nikita Mehta, MS, CGC

Presented at: Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2022

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APR 21, 2022 | 5:30 AM

Advances in Liquid Biopsy Technologies

Up until now, Big Data in healthcare has failed to drive any real progress in curing disease. However, we have just now reached a cost and throughput threshold in sequencing and bioinformati...

Speaker: David Spetzler, MS, MBA, PhD

Presented at: Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2022

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APR 19, 2022 | 5:30 AM

C.E. CREDITS

Comprehensive Structural Variant Detection: From Mosaic to Population...

Long read Structural Variation calling remains a challenging but highly accurate way to identify complex genomic alterations. To address this challenge, we developed Sniffles2, a successor t...

Speaker: Luis Paulin, PhD

Presented at: Genetics Week Virtual Event Series 2022

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