TropAg2017 Week - Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation - University of Queensland

Insights into the latest PacBio achievements from the PacBio Chief Scientific Officer and a showcase of research from UQ and other scientists using SMRT sequencing to further our knowledge in clinical, medical, plant, animal and microbial genomics.

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Program:	10:00am – 10:15am	Dave Burt	Introduction and Welcome
SMRT Sequencing for Clinical Research:	10:15am – 11:15am	Jonas Korlach Chief Scientific Officer, Pacific Biosciences	New directions of clinical research enabled through long-read DNA sequencing.
	11:15am – 12:00pm	Stuart Scott Professor, Division Head - Pharmacognomics, Sema 4 & AssociateProfessor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	SMRT Sequencing Applications for Epigenomics, Pharmacogenomics, and Cytogenomics
Lunch	12:00-12:30pm
SMRT Sequencing for Plant and Animal Genomes:	12:30pm – 1:00pm	Stephen Moore Director, Centre for Animal Science Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation	Genomic Characterization of Australian Brahman Cattle:Balancing tropical adaptation and productivity
	1:00pm – 1:45pm	Robert Henry Professor of Innovation in Agriculture and Director of Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation	Plant genomes based on long reads
SMRT Sequencing for Plant and Animal Transcriptomes:	1:45pm – 2:30pm	Dave Burt - Director, UQ Genomics Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)	Characterization of the ‘nearly complete’ transcriptome of the chicken and other vertebrate species defining all geens, all transcripts from start to end
	2:30pm – 3:15pm	Agnelo Furtado Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation	Analysis of long transcripts in polyploidy plant genomes.
SMRT Sequencing for Microbiology:	3:15pm – 4:00pm	TBC	TBC

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For more information about the workshop please contact:
Mike Yarski, Millennium Science
myarski@mscience.com.au

Venue

The University of Queensland, St Lucia (Sir Llew Edwards Building)

Room:

Room 14-116