Digital Spatial Genomics Symposium

GeoMx Technology Overview and Guest Speakers

• 8:00 – 9:00 AM – Registration & Breakfast
• 9:00 – 9:30 AM – Welcome & Introduction:
  • John H Adams, PhD, Director, USF Genomics Program, Co-Director, Center for Global Health Infectious Disease Research, University of South Florida
  • Liz Mahoney (Regional Account Manager, NanoString Technologies)
• 9:30 – 10:00 AM – Alzheimer’s Tau Pathogenesis: Insights from Spatial Transcriptomics: Gopal Thinakaran (Eric Pfeiffer Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Research, Morsani College of Medicine, CEO Byrd Alzheimer’s Center, and Research Institute Professor, Morsani College of Medicine, Molecular Medicine)
• 10:00 – 10:15 AM – Coffee Break
• 10:15 – 10:45 AM – Illumina Introduction: Ryan Gentry (Senior Sales Specialist, Illumina)
• 10:45 – 11:15 AM – The Tumor Immune Landscape of Merkel Cell Carcinoma and Relevance to Immunotherapy: Ken Tsai (Pathology Research Vice Chair, Moffitt Cancer Center)
• 11:15 – 11:30 AM – Grant Winner Announcement
• 11:30 – 12:00 PM – Local Core Facilities Introduction: Min Zhang, MD, Director, Genomics Program Sequencing Core, University of South Florida
• 12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break

GeoMx Workshops

1. 1:00 – 2:00 PM – Workshop 1: Slide prep/ROI selection strategy: Neil Skinner (Field Application Scientist, NanoString)
2. 2:00 – 2:15 PM – Coffee Break
3. 2:15 – 3:15 PM – Workshop 2: Data analysis + pipelines
   • Illumina: Dragen Pipeline
   • Software Suit – Neil Skinner
   • Local Bioinformatics Speaker