Follow a comprehensive curation of novel and significant discoveries in the fields of genetics and genomics by watching these webinars. Highlighted areas of interest in the fields of genetics and genomics include epigenetics, molecular genetics, hereditary disease, clinical genetics, population genetics, etc.
DATE: September 21, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PSTBoard-certified hematologist-oncologist Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, will review how vague symptoms (fatigue, bone pain, back pain) are linked to...
DATE: September 20, 2017TIME: 11:30AM PDTCoffea arabica accounts for 70% of world coffee production and is threatened by various biotic and abiotic factors. In this webinar, Dr. Susan S...
DATE: September 19, 2017TIME: 10:30am PDT/ 1:30pm EDT/ 7:30pm CESTPart 1 – Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D. (30 min.)Exome- and genome-wide sequencing studies in human cancer have...
DATE: September 6, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PST, 12:00PM ET The era of using extracellular vesicles (EVs) and exosomes for regenerative medicine applications in the clinic is here. We...
DATE: August 22, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETThe use of CRISPR-Cas9 to create targeted double-strand breaks in genomic DNA has greatly simplified strategies for precise gen...
DATE: July 27, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 11:00AM CT, 12:00PM ETDo you have inconsistent results freeze drying samples? Are some of your samples too challenging? Is your freeze dry cycle taki...
EVENT DETAILS:DATE: July 25, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETThermo Fisher Scientific is proud to present the SyncD3 webinar series. As a thought-leader in science...
DATE: July 21, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETCRISPR/Cas9 techniques are quickly growing in popularity for the generation of new mouse models for research. Though the approach is relati...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETPart 1 - Daniel Beacham: Case study showing how CyQUANT Direct Cell Proliferation and Fluo-4 calcium imaging assays were us...
DATE: June 29, 2017TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 4:00pm CESTThe first human cell line HeLa established in 1951 has entered cell culture labs worldwide. It took 20 years until the...
DATE: June 28, 2017TIME: 7:00am PT, 10am ETAs gene therapy approaches usually require large amounts of AAV vectors for clinical use, few manufacturing processes have been repo...
DATE: June 27, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ETThe purpose of this study is to identify genetic variants that influence cellular responses, and patterns of M.tb infection and growth in h...
DATE: May 31, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PDT, 12:00PM ETAlthough more remains to be learnt, great advances have recently been made in the understanding of the molecular & genetic bases of dis...
EVENT DETAILS:DATE: May 16, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETThermo Fisher Scientific is proud to present the SyncD3 webinar series. As a thought-leader in science our first commit...
Much has been said about the promise of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to revolutionise diagnosis of rare diseases, and there are many examples of success in this arena. However, the majori...
It was 10 years ago that Illumina first launched the Genome Analyzer II, the world’s first high-throughput sequencing platform. That system could produce one billion bps of sequen...
The nCounter® Analysis System from NanoString® Technologies uses a novel molecular barcoding technology to measure multiplexed gene expression of up to 800 targets with simple, enzyme...
Nucleotide variation in gene regulatory elements is a major cause of human disease. Despite continual progress in the cataloging of these elements, little is known about the code and grammati...
Genetic disease is the leading cause of death for infants in the intensive care units. Traditional testing is too slow to provide physicians a timely diagnosis to help guide the management of...
The study of inherited genomic variation through genome wide association studies (GWAS) promised to provide key biologic insight into common diseases of public health significance such as obe...
Genetic testing currently plays a relatively niche role in healthcare, with testing typically limited to single genes and targeting a relatively narrow range of diseases, including paediatric...
In this seminar, I will discuss issues in transcriptome analysis. I will first talk about core aspects - how we analyze the activity patterns of genes in model organisms and humans. I will fo...
Boston Children’s Hospital is developing the infrastructure needed for large-scale psychiatric research and treatment discovery. The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research and...
Characterizing cellular hierarchy has profound implications in development and diseases. Single-cell technologies have great potential in discovering new cell types and lineage relationships,...
SMRT Sequencing is a DNA sequencing technology characterized by long read lengths and high consensus accuracy, regardless of the sequence complexity or GC content of the DNA sample. These cha...
A plethora of methods and tools have been developed to identify genes differentially expressed between two compared conditions, such as "diseased versus healthy". For many scientist...
Many computational approaches exist for predicting the effects of amino acid substitutions from protein sequence. These are often (incorrectly) used for judging disease predisposition from in...
DATE: September 21, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PSTBoard-certified hematologist-oncologist Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, will review how vague symptoms (fatigue, bone pain, back pain) are linked to...
