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Thank you for joining us October 18-22 at ASHG 2016 in Vancouver, Canada to find out how Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing can help advance your research by providing full access to human genomic variation through unmatched read lengths, uniform coverage, and exceptional accuracy.

Wednesday, October 19
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Room 17,
East Building                              
Satellite Workshop: Getting the Most from the Reference Assembly and Reference Materials: Updates and Developments from the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) and Genome in a Bottle (GIAB)
Thursday, October 20
7:15 - 8:45 a.m.
Ballroom A,
East Building                                                  
Interactive Invited Workshop: Introduction to the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)
12:45 - 1:00 p.m.
Room 207,
West Building           
Platform Presentation #164: Combined Next Generation Sequencing Techniques Untangle the Genomic Structure of Complex Nonrecurrent Deletions in Subjects with Smith-Magenis Syndrome and Reveal a Strong Bias to Paternally Deleted Chromosomes
Claudia Fonseca, Baylor College of Medicine 

 
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.                   Poster # 1397: A Method for the Identification of Variants in Alzheimer’s Disease Candidate Genes and Transcripts using Hybridization Capture Combined with Long-read Sequencing
Steve Kujawa, PacBio
 
Poster # 1727: Validation of a Novel, High-throughput HLA-I Genotyping Method Based on Phased, Full-length Sequencing
Raveena Chhibber, Emory University
 
Poster #1775: Structural Variant Calling Combining Illumina and Low-coverage PacBio
Andrew Carroll, DNAnexus

Poster #2177: Functional Modeling of Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome (BRS) Mutations Suggests a Dominant-negative Mechanism of Pathogenesis
Harikiran Nistala, Regeneron Genetics Center

Poster #3323: Alternative Splicing in FMR1 Premutation Carriers
Flora Tassone, MIND Institute, UC Davis

Poster # 3395: Genome Assembly and Full-length Transcript Profiling of Stem Cells from Great Apes
Jason Underwood, PacBio

 
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.            Poster #698: Haplotype Phasing of Key Cardiac Disease Genes at Genome and Transcriptome Levels using Long-read Sequencing Technologies
Alexandra Dainis, Stanford University

Poster #1040: The MHC Diversity in Africa Project (MDAP) Pilot - 125 African High Resolution HLA Types from 5 Populations
Martin Pollard, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Poster #1082: Large Protein-coding Polymorphisms in the Human Genome
Stuart Cantsilieris, University of Washington School of Medicine

Poster #1922: Phased Human Genome Assemblies with Single-molecule Real-time Sequencing
Chen-Shan (Jason) Chin, PacBio

Poster #1934: A Versatile Simulator for Simulating and Characterizing Third-generation Sequencing Technologies
Bayo Lau, Roche Sequencing

Poster #3206: Effect of Coverage Depth and Haplotype Phasing on Structural Variant Detection in Human Genomes from PacBio Long Reads
Aaron Wenger, PacBio

 

Towards Precision Medicine
Euan Ashley FRCP, DPhil, Director, Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, Co-Director, Clinical Genomics, Stanford University

A Future of High-Quality Genomes, Transcriptomes & Epigenomes
Jonas Korlach, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, PacBio

Identification and Characterization of Informative Genetic Structural Variants for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Michael Lutz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center

Selected posters can be viewed by clicking the poster titles below.

Friday, October 21
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.                      Poster #3177: Target Enrichment using a Neurology Panel for 12 Barcoded Genomic DNA Samples on the PacBio SMRT Sequencing Platform
Kevin Eng, Pacific Biosciences

Poster # 3183: Unprecedented Characterization of a Human Trio for New Genomic Reference Materials
Justin Zook, National Institute of Standards and Technology

 
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.          Poster #1752: Haplotype Resolved SV Assembly: Producing Gold-standard SV Calls on Diploid Genomes using PacBio and 10X Sequencing Data
Oscar Rodriguez, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Poster #1914: Expanding and Improving the 1000 Genomes Project Data Resources in the International Genome Sample Resource (IGSR)
Susan Fairley, EMBL-EBI

Poster #3138: Characterizing Haplotype Diversity at the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus Across Human Populations using Novel Long-read Sequencing and Assembly Approaches
Corey Watson, University of Louisville School of Medicine

Poster #3324: Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT) Sequencing of Expanded Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10 (SCA10) Pentanucleotide Repeat Alleles Directly from Genomic DNA
Tetsuo Ashizawa, Houston Methodist Research Institute

Poster #3348: De Novo Sequence and Assembly of the Human Primary Cell Line WI-38 Genome
Margaret Roy, Calico Life Sciences LLC


Poster #3384: Discovery and Annotation of Duplicate Genes using Long-read Capture and Transcript Assembly
Max Dougherty, University of Washington


Poster 996: “SMRTer Confirmation”: Scalable Clinical Read-through Variant Confirmation using the Pacific Biosciences SMRT® Sequencing Platform
Sarah McCalmon, Invitae Corporation

 

Stop by our booth and chat directly with PacBio staff who will be on-hand to answer your questions and share insights.

Hours:
Wednesday, October 19: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 20: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Friday, October 21: 10:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m

Discovering and Targeting Causative Variation Underlying Human Genetic Disease Using SMRT Sequencing

View each individual workshop presentation by clicking the presentation titles below.

Reveal Hidden Genetic Variation by Combining Long-Read Target Capture with SMRT Sequencing

 

PACBIO ASHG WORKSHOP: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1:00-2:30 P.M. PST

 

SCIENTIFIC CONTENT

 

VISIT US AT OUR BOOTH #718

HX1 Iso-Seq Data Revealed Novel Genes; CRC Project Revealed Potential Biomarkers for Early Stage Cancer Screening
Meredith Ashby, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, PacBio

Wednesday, October 19
12:00 - 12:30 p.m.                   Concurrent Invited Session I: Mechanisms of Rearrangements in Genomic Disorders: From the Bedside to the Bench Side  
Christine R. Beck, Baylor College of Medicine

 
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.                            Poster #1081: Assessing the Value of Population Specific Reference Genomes by the ‘1000 Swedes Project’
Adam Ameur, SciLifeLab, Uppsala University
 
Poster #2305: Somatic Mosaicism of an Intragenic Duplication in X-linked FANCB Observed in a Fanconi Anemia Patient and his Mother, Leads to an Unusual Phenotype
Settara Chandrasekharappa, National Institutes of Health 
 
Poster #3043: Development of Korean Genome Reference Material
Jina Kim, Seoul National University

Poster #3145: Characterization of the Poly-T Variants in the TOMM40 Gene using PacBio Long Reads
Anand Sethuraman, PacBio

Poster #3319: De Novo Assembly and RNA-seq Shows Season-dependent Expression and Editing in Black Bear Kidneys
Anuj Srivastava, The Jackson Laboratory

 
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.                     Poster #1690: SMRT Sequencing of STR Expansions in SCA31 Brain Disease
Wei Qu, The University of Tokyo

Poster # 2458: Enrichment of Unamplified DNA and Long-read SMRT Sequencing to Unlock Repeat Expansion Disorders
Jenny Ekholm, PacBio

Poster #2626: Second-site Mutations in a Patient with KID Syndrome Cause Reversion of the Dominant Mutation p.D50N in GJB2 by Inhibition of Gap Junction Channels Formation
Sanna Gudmundsson, Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University

 
Saturday, October 22
9:45 - 10:00 a.m.
Room 119,
West Building           
Platform Presentation #266: Improving Gene Annotation to Facilitate Identification of Missing Variants of Clinical Significance
Adam Frankish, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

 

SMRT Sequencing as a Translational Research Tool to Investigate Germline, Somatic and Infectious Diseases
Melissa Laird Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Technology Development, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Using Long-read Sequencing to Characterize Population Diversity at the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus
Melissa Laird Smith, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Technology Development
Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai, Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

CRISPR-Cas9-Targeted SMRT Sequencing of Large Pentanucleotide Repeats of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 10
Tetsuo Ashizawa, M.D., Director, Neuroscience Research Program, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Neurology, Houston Methodist Research Institute and Neurological Institute