Please join us on 21 September for an exciting half-day launch event celebrating the CTG Lund Core Facility and its newly installed PromethION 24.
Discover the sequencing services and capabilities now available to the research community, and learn how CTG Lund can support projects across a wide range of applications, including transcriptomics, cancer research, metagenomics and more. Guest speakers will share their experience using Oxford Nanopore sequencing for transcriptomics and cancer applications.

The programme will also include short presentations from 10x Genomics and Takara on workflows compatible with Oxford Nanopore sequencing, followed by opportunities to connect with the speakers and explore potential project collaborations.

Registration opens at 09:00. The seminar will conclude with networking and lunch hosted by Oxford Nanopore.

09:00–09:30 — Registration
09:30–09:50 — Introduction to CTG Lund and CTG Services
Carlos E Balcazar, Associate researcher,  Center for Translational Genomics Clinical Genomics
09:50–10:10 — Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Introduction, Technology & Applications
Transcriptomics, methylation, metagenomics, DNA/RNA, WGS
10:10–10:25 — Long-Read Compatible Single-Cell Assays with 10x Genomics
Aydan Sarac-Derdiyok, Field Application Scientist, 10x Genomics
10:25–10:45 — Long-Read Epigenomics Reveals How Ancient Viruses Shaped Primate Brain Evolution
Patricia Gerdes, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Neurogenetics, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Wallenberg Neuroscience Centre, Lund Stem Cell Center
10:45–11:05 — Coffee Break
11:05–11:20 — Multiplexed Full-Length Transcriptome Analysis Starting from Ultra-Low Inputs with Takara Bio’s SMART-seq mRNA Long Read Kit
Joost Aerts, PhD, NGS Sales Specialist – Nordics & Benelux, Takara Bio Europe
11:20–11:40 — BRCA1 Hypermethylation and Epigenetic Plasticity in Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Primary Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Anna Karlsson, PhD, Associate Researcher, Division of Translational Cancer Research, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University
11:40–12:00 — ONT Bioinformatics Solutions & Closing Remarks
12:00 Lunch provided by ONT

-Location:
Belfragesalen D15
BMC - Biomedical Centre D14
Klinikgatan 32
221 85 Lund