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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">Date:</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233; font-weight:normal"> Thursday, November 21</span></h6>
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<a href="http://seqnedit.nsm.uh.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#C8102E">UH Sequencing and Gene Editing Core’s</span></a> “Accelerating Discovery and Validating High-Confidence Targets” seminar.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">Application scientists from Illumina, Inc., QIAGEN, 10X Genomics, and TakaraBio will present the various benefits to using our core’s state-of-the-art sequencing, extraction, and analytical
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">Dr. Weiyi Peng, UH assistant professor, will also showcase how our single-cell sequencing service has positively impacted her research.</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">10:00 – 10:15 am</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
Sign-in &amp; Breakfast</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">10:15 – 10:30 am</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Welcome &amp; Introductions</span></em><br>
Preethi Gunaratne, Ph.D. (UH Sequencing and Gene Editing Core Director)</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">10:30 – 11:10 am</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Next Generation Sequencing Applications on Illumina Platforms</span></em><br>
Russ Carmical, Ph.D. (Illumina, Inc.)</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">11:10 – 11:50 am</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Single Cell Sequencing</span></em><br>
Keith Cockrum (10X Genomics)</span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Single-cell Technologies in Cancer Immunology Research</span></em><br>
Weiyi Peng, Ph.D. (UH Center for Nuclear Receptors &amp; Cell Signaling)</span></p>
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<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">The SMARTer Approach to TCR Repertoire Sequencing</span></em><br>
Jansen Smith (TakaraBio, Inc.)</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">1:30 – 2:00 pm</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Whole Transcriptome Sequencing &amp; Analysis - Sample to Insight Solutions</span></em><br>
Bhagyashree Birla, Ph.D. (QIAGEN)</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">2:00 – 2:20 pm</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
<em><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">Data to High-Resolution Figures</span></em><br>
UH Sequencing and Gene Editing Core Bioinformatic Services</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233">2:20 – 2:30 pm</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#313233"><br>
UH Sequencing and Gene Editing Core Single Cell Sequencing Funding Opportunity &amp; Closing</span></p>
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