Event:

Nanopore Day, Antwerp

Date: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Location: BluePoint, Antwerp

Hear about the latest tech updates for Oxford Nanopore as well as hearing from local users about their latest work using nanopore technology.

There is no delegate fee for this event.
Your place at this event will be confirmed via email from events@nanoporetech.com. Completion of this form does not constitute confirmation. Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

The agenda below is subject to change.

09:00 - 09:30	Registration and welcome coffee
09:30 - 09:45	Introduction		Olivier Lucas Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
09:45 - 10:30	Nanopore Sequencing: from basics to the latest updates		*Connie O'Donnell* Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
10:30 - 10:55	Structural variants identified by PromethION human genome sequencing		Wouter De Coster University of Antwerp
10:55 - 11:25	Coffee break and product display
11:25 - 11:50	Preparing for the next era in diagnostics: viral metagenomics for accurate swine health management		Sebastiaan Theuns Ghent University
11:50 - 12:00	Detection of known and novel viruses in Ixodes ricinus using nanopore sequencing *lightning talk*		Bert Vanmechelen KU Leuven, Rega Institute
12:00 - 12:10	Detection of novel long genomic re-arrengments in human cytomegalovirus by HMW viral dsDNA enrichment *lightning talk*		Joan Marti-Carreras KU Leuven, Rega Institute
12:10 - 13:30	Lunch, demos and product display
13:30 - 14:05	Answering questions with nanopore sequencing: From bacteria to sequoias		Winston Timp John Hopkins University
14:05 - 14:30	Simultaneous sequencing of retroviral insertion points and the associated provirus with Oxford Nanopore		Keith Durkin Liège University
14:30 - 14:55	Metagenomic MinION sequencing: Implementation for Lassa virus in a resource limited setting		Liana Kafetzopoulou KULeuven
14:55 - 15:30	Coffee break and product display
15:30 - 16:15	Kits, protocols and getting started		Marta Verdugo Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
16:15 - 16:30	Closing remarks		Olivier Lucas Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd
16:30 - 17:30	Drinks reception and networking

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