Festival of Genomics and Biodata, Boston (FOG Boston) 2024
Overview
Converging the genomics, other omics and biodata ecosystems under one roof, FOG Boston takes pharma/biotech, research and healthcare influencers on a journey towards the latest solutions that are transforming healthcare and medicine.
Oxford Nanopore are sponsoring, exhibiting and presenting at this event. Please stop by our booth #13 if you are attending.
Main Stage talk
Decoding the Genetics of Neurodegeneration with Population-Scale Long-Read Sequencing
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Time: 4:50 PM to 5:20 PM ET
Location: Main Stage
This talk will focus on the CARD-long read initiative, whereby Dr. Billingsley and her team have developed scalable methods for population-scale Nanopore long read sequencing from human brain and blood samples. This framework has then been applied to generate whole-genome long-read data from hundreds of human samples. Using this they have characterized structural variation and began to assess the impact of these new variants on gene expression and methylation in the human brain.
Speakers
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Decoding the Genetics of Neurodegeneration with Population-Scale Long-Read Sequencing
Kimberley Billingsley, Postdoctoral Researcher, NIH Centre for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias
Kimberley Billingsley is leading the Long Read Sequencing Team at the Center for Alzheimer’s and Rel...