Oxford Nanopore User Group Meeting, Singapore
Join us on 9th of April in Singapore, for an exciting series of talks from local researchers using nanopore sequencing. The agenda also includes a technical update from the Oxford Nanopore team, as well as a Q&A with the presenters and a product display.
For more information, please contact events@nanoporetech.com.
Time | Agenda | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | |
09:30 - 09:50 | Welcome & Introduction to Oxford Nanopore | Michael Cheng, Associate Director, Regional Sales (SEA), Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
09:50 - 10:20 | Identifying molecular alterations in neuroblastomas and other paediatric tumours by Oxford Nanopore sequencing | A/Prof Kenneth Chang Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital |
10:20 - 10:50 | Bridging clinical research and diagnostics with long-read sequencing | Lei Tong, PhD Director of Regional Sales Specialists, APAC Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
10:50 - 11:30 | Oxford Nanopore Technologies technical and performance update | Vania Wikasa, PhD Field Application Scientist Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
11:30 - 12:45 | Lunch & networking | |
12:45 - 13:15 | Evaluating long read whole genome and adaptive sampling for germline and cancer testing | Alvin Ng, PhD Presidential Post-doctoral Fellow Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine |
13:15 - 13:45 | A deep learning framework for DNA-RNA signal segmentation in direct RNA nanopore sequencing | Dr Crystal Ling, PhD Research Fellow Nanyang Technological University |
13:45 - 14:15 | Studying food chain microbiomes to increase shelf life and safety | Dr Laura Nolan, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering |
14:15 - 14:45 | Quantifying RNA expression and modifications using long read RNA-seq | Dr Jonathan Goke, PhD Assistant Director, AI & Compute Senior Group Leader, Lab of Computational Transcriptomics, Genome Institute of Singapore |
14:45 - 15:15 | Coffee break & networking | |
15:15 - 15:45 | Survirar: a rapidly deployable on-site platform for sensitive whole-genome surveillance of viruses using AI-based nanopore analytics | Dr Niranjan Nagarajan, PhD Associate Director and Senior Group Leader Genome Institute of Singapore |
15:45 - 16:15 | Nanopore-based monitoring of microbial communities in commercial aquaculture systems | Dr Irina Bessarab, PhD Senior Research Fellow Integrative Analysis Unit, SCELSE-NUS |
16:15 | Closing remarks | Michael Cheng, Associate Director, Regional Sales (SEA), Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
