My notes from 2015 CSHL Conference on THE EVOLUTION OF SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY
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CSHL Genentech Center Conferences
on the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
THE EVOLUTION OF SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY:
A HALF-CENTURY OF PROGRESS
July 16 – 19, 2015
SCHEDULE BELOW
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Genentech Center Conferences on the History of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
THE EVOLUTION OF SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY: A HALF-CENTURY OF PROGRESS July 16 – 19, 2015
Grace Auditorium
Thursday, July 16
7:00 pm – Session I—Early Days
Friday, July 17
9:00 am – Session II – Capturing Sequences/Survey
2:00 pm – Session III – Access to Sequence—From Past to the
Future
4:30 pm – Poster Session – Wine & Cheese Reception
7:00 pm – Session IV – Scaling to Genomes Saturday, July 18
9:00 am – Session V – Sequences to Genomes
1:45 pm – Session VI – All Roads Lead to DNA: Beyond Genomes 5:00 pm – Panel Discussion – Steps and mis-steps during the
development of sequencing technologies 6:00 pm – Cocktails and Banquet
Sunday, July 19
9:00 am – Session VII – Human Variation & Disease 12:00 Noon – Lunch and Departures
Mealtimes at Blackford Hall are as follows:
Breakfast 7:30 am-9:00 am Lunch 11:30 am-1:30 pm Dinner 5:30 pm-7:00 pm Bar is open from 5:00 pm until late
Cover Art: Fred Sanger at the LMB
Thursday, 7:00 pm: Session I – Early Days moderated by Bob Waterston
James Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory “Early Days with DNA” George Brownlee, University of Oxford, UK
“The early days of RNA sequencing at the LMB” Gillian Air, University of Oklahoma
“Integration of protein & DNA sequencing for PhiX174” Clyde Hutchison, J. Craig Venter Institute “Sequencing of PhiX174”
COFFEE BREAK
Wally Gilbert, Harvard University
“Origin of DNA Sequencing”
Tom Maniatis, Columbia University Medical Center
“The transition from RNA to DNA sequencing in the Sanger lab: The DNA sequence of the phage lambda operator/promoter regions””
Joachim Messing, Waksman Institute, Rutgers University “Development of M13 cloning systems for sequencing”
Friday 9:00 am: Session II—Capturing Sequences moderated by Mila Pollock
Lee Hood, Institute of Systems Biology “Automation of Sanger Sequencing” Lloyd Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Fluorescence-based automated DNA Sequencing” Norman Dovichi, University of Notre Dame “Development of capillary electrophoresis” Mostafa Ronaghi, Illumina, Inc.
“Development of pyrosequencing”
COFFEE BREAK
Session II—Capturing Sequences moderated by Miguel Garcia-Sancho (continued) Shankar Balasubramanian, University of Cambridge, UK
“Early development of Solexa technology-key insights & technical breakthroughs” Jonas Korlach, Pacific Biosciences
“Technical innovations of SMRT Sequencing and applications of long-read sequencing”
Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK “Nanopore Sequencing”
Friday, 2:00 pm: Session III—Access to Sequence from the past to the future moderated by Miguel Garcia-Sancho
David Lipman, NCBL/NLM National Institutes of Health “Origins of GenBank” Graham Cameron, Founder, Ex-Director EMBL
“DNA database prehistory”
Jim Ostell, NCBL/ National Center for Biotechnology Information “Databases for the future”
Miguel Garcia-Sancho, University of Edinburgh
“Sequencing & computing technologies: a Historical Convergence” Mila Pollock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Genome legacy (preserving the history)”
4:30 pm: Wine & Cheese Reception on Davenport Lawn
Friday, 7:00 pm: Session IV – Scaling to Genomes moderated by Mark Adams
Jean Weissenbach, Genoscope—CNRG, France “Genoscope early efforts at automation” Stanley Tabor, Harvard Medical School
“How enzymology enabled advances in DNA sequencing”
Session IV – Scaling to Genomes (continued)
Melvin Simon, CalTech
“Large insert cloning”
William Efcavitch, Molecular Assemblies, Inc. “Technology development in scaling up Sanger sequencing” COFFEE BREAK
Jane Rogers, The Genome Analysis Centre UK
“Scaling up Sanger sequencing in the genome era”
Richard Myers, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
“A personal perspective on DNA sequencing from 1978 to 2015” Yoshuiyuki Sakaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
“From the proposal of automated DNA sequencing to the completion of the Human Genome: Japanese contribution to Human Genome sequencing”
Saturday, 9:00 am: Session V – Sequences to Genomes moderated by Richard Roberts
J. Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute
“Whole genome shotgun sequencing”
Hamilton Smith, J. Craig Venter Institute “Haemophilus influenzae and the value of completeness” Philip Green, University of Washington
“Sequence quality & assembly”
COFFEE BREAK
James Kent, University of California, Santa Cruz “Integrating the Sequence & Map into a genome” Gene Meyers, Max Planck Institute, Germany “Shotgun assembly strategies”
Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “Making sense of genomes with visualization and collaboration”
Saturday, 1:45 pm: Session VI – All Roads Lead to DNA: Beyond Genomes moderated by Jane Rogers
Mark Adams, J Craig Venter Institute “Sequencing ESTs for gene discovery” Barbara Wold, CalTech
“Developments & Applications of RNA-seq” Jack Gilbert, University of Chicago “Metagenomic Sequencing”
COFFEE BREAK
Piero Carninci, RIKEN, Japan
“cDNA Sequencing for genome analysis & biological interpretation” Jay Shendure, University of Washington
“Novel applications of DNA sequencing
Victor Ling, BC Cancer Agency, Canada
“Fractionation & sequences of large pyrimidine oligonucleotides—1970-71”
BREAK
Saturday, 5:00 pm: Panel Discussion—Steps and mis-steps during the development of sequencing technologies
Richard McCombie Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Richard Roberts, New England BioLabs
Cheryl Heiner, Pacific Biosciences
Saturday, 6:00 pm: Cocktails and Banquet in Blackford Hall
(Cocktails location TBA)
Sunday, 9:00 am: Session VII – Human Variation and Disease moderated by Barbara Wold
Robert Waterston, University of Washington
“C. elegans: How complete can we get?” Huanming Yang, Beijing Genomics Institute, China “China: a latecomer to the global sequencing effort” Debbie Nickerson, University of Washington “Sequencing in human genetics”
COFFEE BREAK
Mark Gerstein, Yale University “ENCODE”
David Bentley, Illumina, Inc., UK “Genomes for Medicine”
Jim Lupski, Baylor College of Medicine “Applications of sequencing in clinical genetics”
12:00 Noon: Lunch and Departures
Organizers:
Mark Adams, J. Craig Venter Institute Nigel Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mila Pollock, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Robert Waterston, University of Washington
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