2023-2024 CQLS Seminar Series

 

Technical Brunch and Learn: digital PCR

Applied Biosystems,Thermo Fisher Scientific will be giving a seminar about their Absolute Q Digital PCR System. The CQLS now has this system available as a multi-user instrument with some training. Come and learn how digital PCR can help your research.

Join us

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024 10:30am-noon

Brunch 10:30am
Talk 11:00am -noon
Room: Linus Pauling Science Center 402
Speaker: Andrea Callegari, PhD Field Application Scientist
Virtual Attendees: Microsoft TEAMS
See the instrument in ALS 3139 12:15-1pm

Contact for more information:  melanie.brennan@thermofisher.com or Anne-Marie Girard

 

Zeiss LSM Confocal Microscope Presentation

CQLS is looking into replacing their older confocal microscopy system.  Come and learn about one of the newer systems available and see if your research could benefit from this technology. The local Zeiss Microscopy team will be presenting a seminar focused on advancing your research using the latest Zeiss technology in super-resolution, live-cell, confocal imaging. If auto-fluorescence, phototoxicity or insufficient resolution has affected your ability to complete your experiment, come learn about how their LSM with Airyscan2 can overcome those challenges.

Speakers: Ian Ross and Zachary Ellsworth
Date: Monday October 23, 2023
Time: 1:00-3:00pm
Location ALS 3005
This will be a hybrid meeting ONLINE@ TEAMS

Zachary Ellsworth will be on campus for the presentation.  Please stop by ALS 3005 to meet him.  He'd like to learn more about your research and see how they can work together to move your imaging projects forward.

 

Leica Stellaris Confocal Microscope System

Leica Microsystems will be presenting a seminar on their Stellaris Confocal Microscope System. CQLS is looking into replacing their older confocal microscopy system.  Come and learn about one of the newer systems available and see if your research could benefit from this technology.

Speaker: Zsombor Ballasy
Date: Monday October 16, 2023
Time: 3:00-3:50pm
Location ALS 4001
Online live presentation also will be available.
 

Best Practice RNA-Seq – Lunch & Learn

Lexogen will be presenting a lunch and learn seminar about their QuantSeq technology RNA sequencing technologies. Lunch & talk from 12:30-2pm. We will discuss the differences between QuantSeq FWD and QuantSeq Pool library prep kits to better understand which library prep kit is right for your sample type.
 
Speaker: Tanya Murtha, Lexogen Inc.
Date: Wednesday September 13, 2023
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm. Presentation from 12:45pm - 1:30pm
Location: ALS 4001
 

New approaches to transcriptomics: upcoming Iso-Seq workflows & why accurate long-reads matter

PacBio will be presenting a lunch and learn seminar about their latest sequencing technologies. Lunch & talk from 12-1 with an overview of PacBio HiFi long-read Iso-Seq
overviewing applications, upcoming concatenation-based workflows to increase throughput, and updates to single-cell MAS-seq.
 
Speaker: Amy Klegarth
Date: Tuesday September 12, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
Location: ALS 4001
 
 

PacBio Sequencing Technologies

PacBio will be presenting a lunch and learn seminar about their latest sequencing technologies. Please join us to learn how PacBio HiFi sequencing can further your research.

Speaker: Amy Klegarth
Date: Tuesday June 13, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
Location: ALS 4001

Register for the seminar here:
https://forms.gle/ZNJjiZi21bfsjYjz6

PacBio staff will also be holding office hours on the 13th from 9-11 AM and 2-4 PM in the CQLS main office, room ALS 3021.

 

Introducing the NextSeq™ 1000/2000

CQLS Core Lab has used the NextSeq 2000 instrument since June 2021, but with COVID restrictions, we have not officially introduced it - until now.  Illumina is hosing an in-person seminar and Q&A about this instrument and applications.

Speaker: Pamela Lussier, Sr. Sales Specialist, Illumina
Date: Wednesday May 24, 2023
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm.
Location: ALS 4001

Talk followed by Q&A Session

Lunch will be provided
Registration is Required

Illumina will discuss how the unique features and capabilities of the NextSeq™ 1000 and 2000 can open avenues to new applications and methods to further your research. Whether you are working with shotgun metagenomics, RNA Sequencing, single cell methods, spatial transcriptomics, or other applications, come learn how NextSeq™ 1000/2000 can benefit
your lab.

Event Objectives

  • Understand the features and benefits of the NextSeq™ 1000/2000 instruments including increased flexibility and scalability provided by multiple flow cell and read length configurations, improved efficiency due to streamlined cartridge and reagent designs as well as onboard analysis through DRAGEN™, and improved cost benefits due to higher throughput than past mid-throughput Illumina platforms.
  • Learn about various potential applications enabled by the NextSeq™ 1000/2000 instruments and see example comprehensive workflows for each. Join our LIVE event followed by a Q&A session where we will discuss how the unique features and capabilities of the NextSeq™ 1000 and 2000 can open avenues to new applications and methods to further your research. Whether you are working with shotgun metagenomics, RNA Sequencing, single cell methods, spatial transcriptomics, or other applications, come learn how NextSeq™ 1000/2000 can benefit your lab.