Advances in qPCR and dPCR Keynote Speakers

Mikael Kubista Professor/Founder, TATAA Biocenter AB Dr Kubista is founder and CEO of the TATAA Biocenters (www.tataa.com) and he is also head of the department of gene expression at the institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He was one of the pioneers contributing to the development of quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) and introduced qPCR for single cell expression profiling. He led the development of reagents for high throughput expression profiling at his team develop qPCR tomography for intracellular expression profiling. Most recently Kubista co-developed ValidPrime.
Carl Wittwer Professor, University of Utah Carl Wittwer, MD, PhD is a professor of Pathology at the University of Utah. He introduced rapid cycle PCR in the early 1990s and was the primary inventor of the LightCycler system for real time PCR. In the 2000s, he also developed high resolution melting (HRM) for genotyping and variant scanning. He is currently chairman of BioFire Diagnostics (formerly Idaho Technology), still focused on increasing the speed and performance of targeted DNA diagnostics.