'Discover the latest advancements in NGS to unravel biological complexity and disease' - TakaraBio NGS roadshow
Takara Bio is hosting a seminar at CRIG as a part of the NGS Roadshow 2019.
- Location: Medical Research Building 2 (MRB2) seminar room – UZ Gent campus (entrance 38), Corneel Heymanslaan 10, Gent
- please register via this link
Program:
- seminar: Discover the latest advancements in NGS to unravel biological complexity and disease - 40 min
- Q&A - 10 min
- Discussions around coffee & cakes - 40 min
Topic:
In this seminar, we will discuss how transcriptomics, genomics and epigenomics are shaping our understanding of cellular complexity and heterogeneity.Technical advents in single-cell sequencing and new sensitive approaches for sequencing of clinical samples now enable you to gain more insight from your precious samples, to contribute to a better understanding of disease mechanisms, and develop more effective methods for diagnosis and treatment.
About the speaker:
Dr. Matthieu Pesant has been the European NGS Product Manager at Takara Bio Europe since 2017 and manages Takara’s RNA-seq and DNA-seq product range including the market leading single-cell NGS technologies SMART-Seq® and SMARTer® PicoPLEX®. Prior to joining Takara, Dr. Pesant worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Humanitas Research Center in Milan, Italy, identifying new mechanisms of cellular communication between innate immune cells and cancer cells. He then moved to the National Institute of Molecular Genetics in Milan, Italy, where he contributed to uncover crosstalks between chromatin epigenetic landscapes and genome conformation underlying a genetic muscular dystrophy in human. Dr. Pesant obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Burgundy, France in 2008, and his thesis involved identifying regulatory mechanisms of oxidative stress and inflammation relevant to cardiac muscle and atherosclerosis.