SMRT SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM SMRT INFORMATICS DEVELOPERS MEETING

SMRT Leiden 2020 is now an online event. The 2020 SMRTLeiden Meeting includes two back-to-back events: SMRT Scientific Symposium and the fifth European SMRT Informatics Developers Meeting. The SMRT Scientific Symposium is a two-day event on April 28 and 29 that features presentations from key experts and opinion leaders sharing their scientific discoveries and novel analytical achievements using PacBio sequencing platforms. This event is packed with inspirational lectures that highlight the latest achievements in various fields: from microbes to human health. The SMRT Informatics Developers Conference is a one-day collaborative event on April 30 that focuses on developing and improving analysis tools for PacBio SMRT Sequencing data. This event is packed with several short presentations, in-person brainstorming and idea exchange among software developers and the bioinformatics community with a focus on advancement of new and existing open-source tools for de novo assembly, genome phasing, structural variations, base modification and Iso-Seq analysis.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ERICH JARVIS Professor Rockefeller University, USA HAGEN TILGNER Assistant Professor Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA SERGEY KOREN Staff Scientist National Institute of Health, USA

KEVIN FENGLER Comparative Genomics Lead Corteva Agriscience JENNIFER ONG Scientific Director New England Biolabs, USA ANA CONESA Professor University of Florida, USA

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MAY 2020 ONLINE

Presentations will be available on-demand on 12 May 2020 LIVE Q&A SESSIONS May 26, 14:00 BST/9:00 EDT/6:00 PDT Human Biomedical Genomics May 27, 14:00 BST/9:00 EDT/6:00 PDT Plant and Animal Genomics May 28, 14:00 BST/9:00 EDT/6:00 PDT Data Analysis and Bionformatics May 29, 14:00 BST/9:00 EDT/6:00 PDT Microbial Genomics, Metagenomics

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It is our great pleasure to invite you on behalf of Human Genetics Department of Leiden University Medical Center to Leiden for the fifth edition of the SMRT Leiden Meeting in May, 2020. We are looking forward to welcoming you ONLINE and we are very excited to be a host to such an outstanding lineup of speakers highlighting their inspirational and breakthrough achievements enabled by SMRT Sequencing technology. This forum is for all scientists active in fields such as genetics, transcriptomics and epigenetics to review the latest developments and explore potential collaborations. Join your colleagues for a great online meeting May, 2020. Susan Kloet & Ahmed Mahfouz Leiden University Medical Center

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Susan Kloet Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands Ahmed Mahfouz Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands Tzvetana Kerelska PacBio, USA Yahya Anvar (Honorary Member)