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events - </span><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 49, 118);">SMRT Scientific Conference: Changing the World, One Molecule at a Time!</span></strong><strong class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(61, 61, 61);"> </span></strong><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(61, 61, 61); background-color: white;">and
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events will cover topics from microbes to human health! You can view the </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://programs.pacificbiosciences.com/e/1652/SMRTLeiden--speakers/3kbp6r/493401256" class="" style="color: purple;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;">preliminary
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<li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Evan Eichler, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">University
of Washington, USA</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hagen Tilgner, Ph.D., </span></strong><em class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Stanford
University, USA</span></em></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Steven GE Marsh Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">Anthony
Nolan Research Institute, UK</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Shinichi Morishita, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">University
of Tokyo, Japan</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Gene Myers, Ph.D., </span></strong><em class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Max
Planck Institute, Germany</span></em></li></ul>
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<strong class="" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(85, 49, 118);">SMRT Informatics Developers Conference </span></strong><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(61, 61, 61);">is
a collaborative event to develop and improve data analysis tools for SMRT<sup class="">®</sup> Sequencing technology</span><br class="">
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software developers and the bioinformatics community. Through facilitation of open discussion and collaboration, the event will nurture development of new and existing open source tools for de novo assembly, genome phasing, structural variations, epigenetics
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<li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Gene Myers, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">Max
Planck Institute, Germany</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jason Chin, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">PacBio,
USA</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Shinichi Morishita, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">University
of Tokyo, Japan</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yahya Anvar, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">Leiden
University Medical Center, Netherlands</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Elizabeth Tseng, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">PacBio,
USA</em></span></li><li class=""><strong class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lance Hepler, Ph.D.,</span></strong><span class="" style="color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <em class="">PacBio,
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