GGBC- PacBio Mini-Symposium – Thursday, September 9th, 2021 at 1:00 pm.
The GGBC is sponsoring a PacBio Mini-Symposium on Thursday, Sept. 9th at 1pm. Register to attend in-person or virtually. A UGA SMRT Grant competition will be held as part of this event with the top submission receiving free sequencing of up to 4 SMRT cells. The top 20 submissions will receive 20% off of a PacBio sequencing project. Lunch and beverages will be available for in-person attendees.
GGBC Seminar : COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 Webinar – Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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GGBC Seminar : COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 Webinar – Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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The GGBC invites you to join us Wednesday, August 4th for a webinar on sequencing and bioinformatics approaches used to analyze SARS-CoV-2 data.
Speakers from Illumina, IDbyDNA and UGA will be presenting.
This promises to be an interesting and informative series of talks for those interested in the latest short read sequencing approaches used for the analysis and epidemiological surveillance of SARs-CoV-2 variants.
Schedule of talks:
12:00pm – 12:40pm
Kelly Hoon
Executive Sales Specialist
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Illumina
Illumina COVIDSeq Test (RUO) and additional methods for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, including requirements, workflow, and analysis.
12:40pm-1:20pm
Benjamin Briggs, MD, Ph.D.
Director of Medical and Scientific Affairs
IDbyDNA
Precision Metagenomics: use cases and capabilities of the Respiratory Pathogen ID/AMR Enrichment Panel (RPIP)
1:20pm-2:00pm
Justin Bahl, Ph.D.
Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Molecular epidemiology of pandemics: Lessons learned and remaining challenges
Upcoming GGBC-Sponsored Webinar: NanoString Technologies – Wednesday March 17th, 2021 at 10:30 AM
GGBC-Sponsored Webinar – Nanostring Technologies
Please join us for a Zoom webinar with NanoString Technologies on Wed. March 17th at 10:30 AM to learn about the GeoMx Digital Spatial Profiler and its application in transcriptome-wide gene and protein expression from targeted tissue areas.
Registration information can be found in the attached flyer.
GGBC Genomics Webinar – Wednesday February 10, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
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Genomics Webinar
The Sequencing Power of NextSeq 2000 and Patterned Flow Cells
Please plan to join us and learn about the sequencing options available on our newly acquired instrument, the NextSeq 2000. Matt Angel, sequencing specialist at Illumina, Inc will be discussing both single cell and whole genome applications as well as new kit offerings from Illumina:
- Overview and cost benefit of NextSeq 2000 sequencing
- New RNA-Seq suite of library preps
- RVOP2 & Respiratory Pathogen Panel
- New DNA PCR-Free Tagmentation kit
- Using NextSeq 2000 sequencing for scRNAseq and ATAseq
Date: Wednesday, Februry 10 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Registration is required. Attendees will have the opportunity to enter a GGBC contest to win Free Sequencing! Details given after the seminar.