Taq Academy Testimonials

Atocha Romero
Director, Liquid Biopsy Laboratory
Hospital Universitario Puerta di Hierro

Dr. Romero shares how she and her team hope to utilize digital PCR technology to eventually develop effective screening for lung cancer.

Olga Vera Puente
Junior Principal Investigator, Epigenetics Laboratory
La Paz University Hospital

Olga Vera uses both digital and qPCR technologies to explore non-genetic alterations in melanoma.

Miranda Burdiel
PhD Student, Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory
La Paz University Hospital

Doctoral student Miranda Burdiel shares how Applied Biosystems technologies enable her research on liquid biopsies.

Harald Bartsch
Clinical Pathologist
Gemeinschaftspraxis für Pathologie

Dr. Harald Bartsch walks you through his comprehensive workflow for DNA/RNA extraction and analysis.

Selma Masri, Nick Pannunzio, Rémi Buisson
Assistant Professors
University of California, Irvine

Multiple researchers form the University of California, Irvine discuss how they use the Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Absolute Q Digital PCR system in their cancer research.

Javier Freire Salinas
Manager, Molecular Pathology and Massive Sequencing Laboratory
Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander

Dr. Salinas shares how his laboratory is implementing dPCR therapeutic monitoring and early detection of the appearance of resistant alterations in solid tumor disease.

Brandon Lee
Senior Development Associate
Senti Biosciences

Hear from Senti Biosciences about their experience using the Absolute Q digital PCR system to develop cell and gene therapy products.

Quinton Smith
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine

Quinton Smith talks about how the reliability of Applied Biosystems TaqMan Assays give him and his students the confidence to push boundaries in their research into stem cells.

Dustin Rubenstein
Director, Genome Editing Lab
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hear why the Genome Editing Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uses the QuantStudio Absolute Q digital PCR system to measure gene edited products.

Sanda Miljkovic
Laboratory Manager
ImmnunoIVD AB

Sanda Miljkovic shares how the flexibility of qPCR instrumentation allows her to be flexible and adaptable in her work to simplify newborn screening.

David Bernick
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz

Hear about how the Bernick Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz used digital PCR for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance.

Brandi Keel Reese
Geomicrobiologist
University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Geomicrobiologist Brandi Keel Reese studies microbes buried deep under the sea floor. She shares how her need for sensitive and accurate testing equipment for these delicate organisms led her to becoming one of the first labs to use the Applied Biosystems QuantStudio Absolute Q Digital PCR System to study life in extreme environments.

Gabriela Eder
University Assistant
TU Wien

Gabriela Eder from TU Wien explains how wastewater monitoring allows researchers to monitor human disease without direct testing of the population, and provides critical information regarding potential outbreaks to government health authorities.

Gustav Quade
Clinical Pathologist
Laboratory Dr. Quade and Associates GmbH

Large-scale testing and diagnostics are becoming more important than ever. Listen to Dr. Quade’s experience with qPCR tools and the impact reliable testing can have on patients’ lives.

Lauren Bates
Laboratory Supervisor
West Virginia Laboratories

Lauren Bates shares how qPCR technology empowers her and her team to take charge of pathogen identification.

Colin Denver
CEO
SpeeDx

SpeeDx can meet the wide variety of challenging needs in the clinical testing market with innovations like Diomni Software, to allow digital monitoring of the entire workflow and automated reporting of final results into the LIS.

Donna Simeoni
Head of Molecular Infection Diagnostics
Medical University of Vienna

Donna Simeoni discusses the pertussis outbreak that occurred in Vienna in 2024, and how automated testing using qPCR instruments and kits allowed her lab to handle an exponential increase in tests in an accelerated timeframe.

Efrem Lim
Associate Professor
Arizona State University

Efrem Lim, PhD, shares how digital PCR helped him identify and target Covid mutations during the pandemic.

Sinaye Ngcapu
Senior Scientist
CAPRISA

Dr. Ngcapu uses qPCR to study the link between vaginal microbiota and HIV infection, in order to help reduce rates of HIV in South African women.