PCR & Next-Gen Sequencing Keynote Speakers

John Burnett Assistant Research Professor, Beckman Research Institute City of Hope John Burnett, Ph.D., earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. He subsequently completed his postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. John Rossi at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, where he now serves as an Assistant Research Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Stephen Bustin Professor, Anglia Ruskin University Stephen Bustin obtained his PhD from Trinity College, University of Dublin in molecular genetics. Since 1989 he has worked at the Royal London Hospital and was awarded a personal chair by the University of London in 2004. He was appointed as a visiting Professor of Molecular Biology by the University of Middlesex in 2006. He has a special interest in molecular technologies and his laboratory operates at the forefront of technological development in nucleic acid quantification. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and reviews and is the editor of the “A-Z of quantitative PCR”, the leading textbook for this technology. He is on the editorial boards of several journals and has given numerous presentations at scientific conferences around the world. He has organised and co-organised many qPCR meetings in the UK, Europe and the US.