An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Joseph Kittle of Ohio University and Molecular Technologies Laboratories, LLC on October 30, 2013. Dr. Kittle will be a speaker during the Engineering Genes, Vectors, Constructs and Clones conference at PepTalk 2014, January 13-17 in Palm Springs, CA.

Topics include problems with plasma-based protein expression, using engineered bacteria and chromosomally inserted genes, integrating current biotech industry knowledge with academic biochemistry and molecular engineering instruction and more.

An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Zoltan Szallasi of Harvard Medical School and Danish Technical University on 23 October 2013. Dr. Szallasi will be speaking during the Genome Informatics conference at the Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe Conference & Expo on 4-6 December, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Topics include:

• Clinical Validation and Analysis of Cancer Genomic Data

• Computational and Experimental Methods for Detecting Genomic Instability

• Quantifying Homologous Recombination in Tumor Biopsies

• Platinum Sensitivity in Breast Cancer

• Adapting to Next-Generation Sequencing

An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Anne Cambon-Thomsen of CNRS on 23 October 2013. Dr. Cambon-Thomsen will be a keynote speaker during the Genome Informatics conference at the Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe Conference & Expo on 4-6 December, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Topics include:

• Interdisciplinary Aspects of Public Health Research

• Ethical, Societal and Legal Issues

• Applications of Immunogenetics Research

• Genomic Data Sharing vs. Privacy Protection

CHI talks to Syapse Founder and President, Jonathan Hirsch, about their software platform, how cloud-based technologies have evolved, and current challenges and opportunities. Jonathan also discusses how the Syapse platform is being used clinically and how he sees the role of clinicians evolving as technology becomes more accessible.

Jonathan Hirsch will be speaking at the Genomics in Medicine Symposium this February 13-14 in San Francisco as part of the Molecular Medicine Tri-Con.

: An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Heidi Carmen Howard of Radboud University Medical Centre and INSERM on 16 October 2013. Dr. Howard will be speaking during the Genome Informatics conference at the Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe Conference & Expo on 4-6 December, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Topics include:

• The Translation of Genetic Data into the Clinic

• The Necessity of Ethical, Social and Legal Considerations in Genomics

• Genetics for Consumers, Patients and Public Health

An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Curtis Knox of Lucigen on October 14, 2013. Mr. Knox will be a speaker during the

Engineering Genes, Vectors, Constructs and Clones conference at PepTalk 2014, January 13-17 in Palm Springs, CA.

Topics include the challenges and advantages of endotoxin reduction in recombinant protein expression processes for drug discovery R&D, high-throughput cloning and expression of target proteins, large insert metagenomic libraries from soil microbes and more.

Kip Harry interviews Dr. David Smith from the Mayo Clinic, and Dr. Melanie Lehman from Queensland University of Technology for the upcoming RNA-Seq and Transcriptome Analysis meeting, 5-6 December in Lisbon, Portugal.

Discussion points during the interview include:

• The advantages of using RNA-Seq for expression analysis over microarrays

• The impact of RNA-Seq on research and recent advances in the applications of this technology

• Ways in which RNA-Seq is being utilized clinically

• Current challenges/limitations with RNA-Seq

An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Niklas Blomberg of ELIXIR on 7 October 2013. Dr. Blomberg will be a keynote speaker during the High-Scale Computing conference at the Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe Conference & Expo on 4-6 December, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Topics include:

• Bioinformatics for Managing Large Data Volumes

• Sustainable IT Infrastructures for Life Science Research and Clinical Practice

• Advances in IT Infrastructures for Genomic Data Management and Analysis

• ELIXIR’s Mission, Considerations and Challenges

An-Dinh Nguyen interviews Wolfgang Gentzsch of The UberCloud HPC Experiment on 4 October 2013. Dr. Gentzsch will be speaking during the High-Scale Computing conference at the Clinical Genomics & Informatics Europe Conference & Expo on 4-6 December, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Topics include:

• Cloud Computing Services for R&D Scientists and Engineers via UberCloud

• Progress in Cloud Computing and Storage for Genomic Research and Clinical Practice

• Challenges: Security, Data Management, Software License Restrictions

• EUDAT’s Collaborative Data Infrastructure

Terry Robins, Consultant, Former, Global Director, Scientific Affairs, Quest Diagnostics will be speaking at the Sample and Biospecimen Management in Clinical Trials Conference at the SCOPE Event in Miami Feb. 4-5, 2014. In this podcast he highlights some of the key points of his talk and gives an overview of the field.