UCLA Symposium on Clinical Metagenomic Technology
May 6 – 7, 2024 | Los Angeles, CA
Due to tremendous advances in genomic sequencing, clinical metagenomics is poised to revolutionize diagnostics for infectious diseases. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers developing and deploying clinical metagenomic NGS technology to share best practices and the latest technological advances. The symposium will also discuss key challenges and paths forward for regulatory approval, and commercialization of clinical metagenomic NGS diagnostic technologies.
Where:
In-person at UCLA Luskin Conference Center in the Laureate Room
425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
DAY 1 | May 6, 2024
Clinical Metagenomics Technology
8:30 – 8:45am Steven Dubinett, Dean School of Medicine, UCLA
8:45 – 9:00am Opening Remarks and Symposium Goals
9:00 – 9:30am Sivan Bercovici, Karius
9:30 – 10:00am Robert Schlaberg, Illumina
10:00 – 10:30am Eleazar Eskin, UCLA
10:30 – 11:00am BREAK
11:00 – 11:30am Shangxin Yang, UCLA
11:30 – 12:00pm Miriam Huntley, Day Zero Diagnostics
12:00 – 1:30pm LUNCH
1:30 – 2:00pm Keith Brown, Jumpcode
2:00 – 2:30pm Nicholas Schork, TGEN
2:30 – 3:00pm Patrick Benoit, UCSF
3:30 – 4:00pm Valerie Arboleda, UCLA
4:00pm Reception
6:30pm Speaker Dinner
DAY 2 | May 7, 2024
Clinical Metagenomics Bioinformatics/ Funding, Regulatory and Commercialization
8:30am Tour of SwabSeq Lab (Meet by Laureate Room at Luskin)
9:30 – 10:00am Catherine Hogan, BC Centre for Disease Control
10:00 – 10:30am Steve Miller, Delve Bio
10:30 – 11:00am Break
11:00 – 11:15am Dev Mittar, BARDA
11:15 – 11:30am Eun Mi Lee, BARDA
11:30 – 11:45am Stephanie Servetas, NIST
11:45 – 12:00pm Paul Eder, NIAID
12:00 -1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:00pm Genay Pilarowski, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
2:00 – 2:30pm Sam Chorlton, BugSeq
2:30 – 3:30pm Panel Discussion:
Sivan Bercovici, Karius
Robert Schlaberg, Illumina
Steve Miller, Delve Bio
Miriam Huntley, Day Zero Diagnostics
3:30pm Closing Remarks