WGGC Webinar Serie

Explain Podcast Special Episode 4: Long vs Short Reads August 7, 2024

In this Special Episode of the Explain Podcast, our hosts had a pleasure to chat with Florian Kraft about Long-read and Short-read sequencing techniques. As you know, there are bright and hidden benefits/limitations as well as personal preference! Spotify supports chapters which makes it easier to find nuggets – check it out & rate our podcast ...
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NGS Webinar September 2024 August 5, 2024

Olga Brovkina will join us for our next webinar in September. Join us on September 5th at 11 and hear more about intestinal microbiota and IgA-seq. Register here!
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NGS-CN Meeting 2024 – with AGD July 18, 2024

NGS-CN has exciting changes in the annual meetings – from this year on, each October we’ll meet AGD colleagues in Bonn! Scientific Program is almost settled – but the registration is already open! Check the details under https://www.agdev.de/tagung2024.html– we’re looking forward to meet & greet!
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Bio Data Science Evening August July 10, 2024

Our on-site Bio Data Science Evenings at University of Düsseldorf are happy to host Florian Kraft, who will discuss an important question… WHY size matters when we talk about “sequencing rare disease”? 14 August | Wednesday | 17:00 at O.A.S.E. Forum Register HERE and come meet fellow biodata enthusiasts on-site, learn something new & have a ...
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Explain Podcast Episode 11 is out! July 3, 2024

Explain Podcast moves towards discussing MGI sequencing…and not only. Did you know they have the whole sequencing room available? Fancy! At the end of each episode, we now release QuickGen, where hosts shortly discuss one term from Genetics. This time it’s about introns and exons! Let’s keep the conversation going – choose the platform where ...
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NGS Webinar July 2024 June 28, 2024

In our next webinar Natja Haag from Aachen will tell us all about pain mechanisms and how they are working on deciphering them using singlecell sequencing methods. Join us on July 25th at 11 and hear more about pain and singecell sequencing! Register here!
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NGS Webinar June II 2024 June 10, 2024

This June we have not one but two NGS webinars for you! In our second webinar, Denny Popp from Leipzig, will talk about longread sequencing in clinical applications. Join us on June 27th at 11:00 and hear more about longread sequencing in diagnostics! Register here!
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NGS-CN Summer School 2024 June 6, 2024

Online NGS-CN Summer School “Sequencing Fundamentals & Bioinformatics” 9 – 10 September | online Open for everybody – don’t miss a chance to listen & ask experts! ...
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Explain Podcast Episode 10 is out! May 28, 2024

Season 2 of the Explain Podcast is out&about – yey! We start by discussing Bionano and Nabsys – curious tech that we’ve classified as…Genome Mapping! At the end of each episode, we now release a new subsection QuickGen, where hosts shortly discuss one term from Genetics. This time it’s about transposons or…JUMPING GENES! Let’s keep ...
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NGS Webinar June I 2024 May 24, 2024

Ana Conesa is one of the leading specialists in RNA transcript isoform sequencing. She and her partners pioneered the implementation of novel longread Sequencing technologies – both PacBio and Oxford Nanopore – to explore their use in addressing pressing questions in RNA Biology. By establishing well-curated lab protocols, and developing novel bioinformatics tools, she and her ...
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