SBC Open House

SBC Open House

May 1, 2017, 1:00 pm

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW AT CAPACITY

May 1, 2017

3340 Bob Sindelar Room, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, 3405 Wesbrook Mall 

  • Discover the support available for your sequencing projects
  • Meet the UBC Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium team
  • Learn from vendor application specialists
  • Hear how sequencing is impacting research across multiple disciplines

To signal the launch of the new UBC Sequencing and Bioinformatics Consortium (SBC) and to introduce the SBC to researchers and trainees, we are having an Open House. The event consists of a drop-in session for trainees to speak with vendor application specialists, followed by a series of short scientific talks and an informal reception.

1:00-3:00 PM
Drop in-session with vendor specialists for trainees
Meet with vendor specialists who can educate and inform (Illumina, 10X Genomics, Andrews Automation, Agilent, ThermoFisher, IDT, New England Biolabs, Bio-Rad, Oxford Nanopore).

3:00-5:10 PM
Scientific Talks

  • 3:00 PM    Opening Remarks - Gail Murphy
  • 3:10 PM    Introduction and Overview of SBC - Corey Nislow (SBC Director), Debbie Adam (Sanger Sequencing) and Sunita Sinha (NGS)
  • 3:30 PM    RNA-sequencing of FACS Sorted Populations - Michael Underhill
  • 3:50 PM    Single Cell RNA-Seq - Ryan Vander Werff
  • 4:10 PM    Oxford Nanopore update - Inanc Birol (Genome Sciences Centre)
  • 4:40 PM    Forestry Genomics - Sally Aitken
  • 4:55 PM    Clinical Genomics - Matthew Farrer

5:10-6:00PM
Reception and mixer

ABOUT THE SBC

 

Part of the VP Research & Innovation portfolio

Sequencing + Bioinformatics Consortium, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building

3124 – 2405 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3

UBC receives support for managing its research enterprise from the federal Research Support Fund.

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