Panelists:
Charlie Johnson, PhD
Director,
Genomics and Bioinformatics Services
Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Panelist
Charlie Johnson, PhD
Charlie Johnson, PhD, is the director and founder of AgriLife Genomics and Bioinformatics Service (TxGen), a multimillion-dollar agrigenomics research unit within Texas A&M AgriLife Research and part of the Texas A&M System.
With three decades of scientific research experience, he’s dedicated more than 25 years to the areas of genomics and bioinformatics
Jasmine Plummer, PhD
Founding Director,
Center for Spatial Omics
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Panelist
Jasmine Plummer, PhD
Jasmine Plummer, PhD, is founding director of the Center for Spatial Omics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
She has received several awards including the OSOTF James Crothers Peripheral Nerve Damage Fellowship Award, the Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute Young Scholars Award, the Autism Speaks Meixner Post-Doctoral Fellow Award, T.E.A.L Foundation Award and the Tina’s Wish award.
Nick Banovich, PhD
Associate Professor, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
Director, Center for Single Cell and Spatial Multiomics
Panelist
Nick Banovich, PhD
Nick Banovich, PhD, is associate professor, at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and director at the Center for Single Cell and Spatial Multiomics.
Dr. Banovich oversees core operations for TGen’s spatial multi-omic capabilities. An expert in spatial transcriptomics, he leads COSMO as a hub for high-resolution studies that reveal the spatial organization of gene activity across healthy and diseased tissues. COSMO serves researchers at TGen, City of Hope, and beyond.
Catherine Aquino
Group Leader, Genomics Analytics
Functional Genomics Center Zurich
ETH Zurich
Panelist
Catherine Aquino
Catherine Aquino is a group Leader, genomics analytics at the Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich.
With her team, she supports a large variety of analytical workflows such as NGS, long read sequencing, single cell sequencing and spatial gene expression. She represents the FGCZ in the Core for Life Genomics workgroup and the Genomics Research Group of the ABRF.
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For the genomics community, the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting is a can’t-miss event—bringing together cutting-edge science, breakthrough technologies, and major product launches. Held in Orlando in late February, AGBT sets the tone for the rest of the year.
Whether you are attending AGBT or not, a full debrief on the news from the meeting is critical to understanding where the world of NGS, spatial, single cell, and multiomics is heading.
On this episode of GEN Live, we break it all down. A quartet of experts join the show to review and dissect this year’s biggest announcements. We will dig into the standout developments, spotlight new research and emerging technologies, and evaluate the claims made by both established companies and rising newcomers.
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