{"id":5574,"date":"2015-08-27T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2016-05-02T23:18:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:18:18","slug":"ion-world-tour-is-coming-to-a-location-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thermofisher.com\/blog\/behindthebench\/ion-world-tour-is-coming-to-a-location-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Ion World Tour is Coming to a Location Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Registration is open for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifetechnologies.com\/us\/en\/home\/life-science\/sequencing\/next-generation-sequencing\/ion-world-tour-forum.html?socid=social_btb\">2015 Ion World Tour<\/a>. There is an exciting collection of researchers sharing their latest work using Ion Torrent\u2122 sequencing. Everything from studying the viral epidemiology using archived samples from the recent Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, to forestry , to biomarker discoveries in cancer and inherited disease research; there is something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>As a preview, here\u2019s just some of what you can expect to hear.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5583\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Mattias-Mild.jpg\" alt=\"Mattias Mild\" width=\"107\" height=\"97\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Sept 8, Oslo, Norway<\/h4>\n<p>There will be a variety of human genetics studies presented and Mattias Mild, Folkh\u00e4lsomyndigheten Laboratorieutveckling, Sweden will present on NGS as a routine workflow in microbiology surveillance research<br \/>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5584\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Sebra.jpg\" alt=\"Sebra\" width=\"107\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Sept 9 &amp; 11, 2 locations in New York City, NY<\/h4>\n<p>Gene expression profiling research, and genetic analysis of circulating tumor cells are just some of the topics that will accompany a double header presentation by Bobby Sebra, Director of Technology Development, Icahn School of Medicine.<br \/>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5585\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Goodfellow.jpg\" alt=\"Goodfellow\" width=\"108\" height=\"98\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Sept 10, London, United Kingdom<\/h4>\n<p>Ian Goodfellow, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK will present on The Ion AmpliSeq\u2122 &#8211; Ion Chef\u2122 &#8211; Ion PGM\u2122 workflow as a platform for rapid in-country sequencing of archived samples of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone.<br \/>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5588\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/schnieder.png\" alt=\"schnieder\" width=\"110\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Sept 15, Heidelberg, Germany<\/h4>\n<p>Several sessions will focus on cancer research projects and then Peter Schneider, Institute of Legal Medicine, Cologne, Germany will present on: New approaches in forensic genetics \u2013 from genotyping to phenotyping<br \/>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5587\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/rossen.png\" alt=\"rossen\" width=\"111\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Sept 17, Antwerp, Belgium<\/h4>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in learning more about Ion AmpliSeq\u2122 gene panels, Antwerp is the place to be with three different projects being presented. And then John Rossen, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands discusses his work on 16S metagenomics using the Ion PGM\u2122 System<br \/>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Ion-World.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5586 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Ion-World-300x45.jpg\" alt=\"Ion World\" width=\"327\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Ion-World-300x45.jpg 300w, https:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Ion-World-400x60.jpg 400w, https:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2015\/08\/Ion-World.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The list of locations is growing daily so check out all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifetechnologies.com\/us\/en\/home\/life-science\/sequencing\/next-generation-sequencing\/ion-world-tour-forum.html?socid=social_btb\"> agendas for 2015<\/a>, make your plans to attend and learn more about the latest innovations in Ion Torrent\u2122 sequencing.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<h4>List of Tour Stops so far:<\/h4>\n<p>Sept 15, Denver, CO<\/p>\n<p>Sept 15, Boston, MA (Children\u2019s Hospital)<\/p>\n<p>Sept 16, Research Triangle Park, NC<\/p>\n<p>Sept 17, Piscataway (Rutgers University)<\/p>\n<p>Sept 17, Salt Lake City, UT<\/p>\n<p>Sept 17, Boston, MA (Harvard)<\/p>\n<p>Sept 17, Moscow, Russia<\/p>\n<p>Sept 21, Worcester, MA<\/p>\n<p>Sept 22, Athens, Greece<\/p>\n<p>Sept 24, South San Francisco, CA<\/p>\n<p>Sept 24, Chicago, IL<\/p>\n<p>Sept 24, Paris, France<\/p>\n<p>Sept 25, Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n<p>Oct 1, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n<p>Oct 5, Pretoria, South Africa<\/p>\n<p>Oct 8, Florence, Italy<\/p>\n<p>Oct 28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">Stayed tuned for more information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thermofisher.com\/us\/en\/home\/life-science\/sequencing\/next-generation-sequencing\/ion-world-tour-forum.html?socid=social_btb\">Ion World Tour 2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registration is open for the 2015 Ion World Tour. 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