Emerging Technologies in Single Cell Biology Symposium (5/10/2017)

[Fisher, Stephen A]

Details for the 2017 Emerging Technologies in Single Cell Biology Symposium are below. Please feel free to distribute this information to any colleagues, postdocs and students who may be interested in attending.

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Emerging Technologies in Single Cell Biology Symposium

Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Time: 8:15 am - 5:30 pm
Location: Arthur H Rubenstein Auditorium, Smilow Center for Translational Research, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

The Penn Program in Single Cell Biology is hosting the University of Pennsylvania’s fourth Single Cell Biology symposium on May 10, 2017. This day-long event will bring to Penn a group of distinguished investigators who are on the forefront of single cell discovery. From probing single cells to biomedical applications of single cell techniques, this symposium will highlight research that will excite a broad audience across a large number of scientific disciplines.

Featured speakers include:

· Maria Margarita Behrens, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute

· Paul Blainey, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT and Broad Institute

· David Issadore, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

· Allon Klein, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University

· Sarah Teichmann, Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

· Chris Walsh, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Overview of the NIH Common Fund HuBMAP Initiative by Richard Conroy.

Round Table Technology Discussion moderated by Jim Eberwine and Junhyong Kim.

Symposium Program and Abstracts.

This symposium is free, but registration is required.

Sponsors: ITMAT, Penn Program in Single Cell Biology, 10x Genomics, BD, Bio-Rad, Illumina, Qiagen, Takara.