Thursday, 26 May 201608:00 | Registration & Coffee | 08:50 | Opening Address by Michael Pfaffl, Professor, Technical University of Munich | | New Developments in PCR |
| | 09:00 | | 10:00 | Target-activated RNase H2 PCR for Qualitative and Quantitative SNP Genotyping Caifu Chen, Sr. Vice President, R&D, Integrated DNA Technologies, United States of America
| 10:30 | Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | | Clinical applications of PCR |
| | 11:15 | Multiplex qPCR for syndromic infectious disease testing Qingge Li, Professor, Xiamen University, China
| 11:45 | Quantitative real-time PCR of respiratory viruses in throat swabs: microfluidics vs nanofluidics Crystale Lim Siew Ying, Assistant Professor, UCSI University, Malaysia
| 12:15 | Tube-strip digital PCR for sensitive and high-throughput quantitation of cell-free DNA in liquid biopsy Johnson Ng, Founder And CEO, JN Medsys Pte Ltd, Singapore
| 12:45 | Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | | Bioinformatics and Data Analysis |
| | 14:00 | Droplet digital PCR data-analysis: Issues and solutions Olivier Thas, Professor in Biostatistics & Honorary Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
| 14:30 | Convergence of Nucleic Acid Quantification Methods in a Single Platform Stefan Rodiger, Group Leader, BTU Cottbus Senftenberg, Germany
| 15:00 | Single-cell computational/system immunology Jinmiao Chen, Project Leader Research Scientist, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR, Singapore
| 15:30 | Coffee, Poster Session and Networking | 16:30 | End of Day One |
Friday, 27 May 201608:00 | Registration & Coffee | | New Developments in NGS |
| | 09:00 | | 10:00 | OncoGenomics in the Cloud Dadabhai Singh, Director, Cloudseq Pte Ltd, Singapore
| 10:30 | Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | | Clinical and Translational Applications of NGS |
| | 11:15 | Clinical Application of Next Gen Sequencing in Complex Blood Group Investigations Robert Flower, National Leader Transfusion Safety Research, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Australia
| 11:45 | Quality aspects and tools in Molecular Diagnostics – Implications of the new CEN and ISO guidelines Mikael Kubista, Professor/Founder, TATAA Biocenter AB, Sweden
| 12:15 | MP-Seq as a powerful clinical tool for the management of cancer patients David Smith, Professor, Mayo Clinic, United States of America
| 12:45 | Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area | | Single Cell Analysis |
| | 14:00 | Single Cell Systems - A Step Toward Functional Single Cell Biology Jay West, Senior Director of R&D, Fluidigm Corporation, United States of America
| 14:30 | The Nature, Nietzsche and Nurture of 500 macrophages: Triggering an Existential Crisis to Study Single-cell Gene-environment Interactions Quin Wills, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
| 15:00 | Epigenetic regulation of gene expression network in human early embryos Fuchou Tang, Associate Professor/Principle Investigator , Peking University, China
| 15:30 | Single Cell Tumor Transcriptomics Shyam Prabhakar, Associate Director/Integrative Genomics and Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| 16:00 | Coffee and Networking | 17:00 | Close of Conference |
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