Plenary Session: Future Horizons in Genome Exploration

Chair:
Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine

Location:
Island Ballroom

Agenda:

2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Stephan Schuster, Pennsylvania State University
Mammoth Genomics

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Sean Grimmond, University of Queensland
Redefining the Stem Cell Transcriptome Content and Dynamics via Massive Scale Sequencing

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

John Leamon, RainDance Technologies, Inc.
Droplet-Based Microfluidics: An Enabling Platform Technology for Cell and Nucleic Acid Assays

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Stephen Turner, Pacific Biosciences
Harnessing Nature’s Powerful DNA Sequencing Engine: Single Molecule Real Time Sequencing-by-Synthesis