Sponsors & exhibitors

NGS 2014
Our 2nd Oxford Next Generation Sequencing event, NGS 2014,
is aimed at providing a one-stop learning solution to this rapidly
evolving technology.

31 March-03 April 2014
St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK
Twitter: @LPMHealthcare, #ngsoxford

NGS2014 encourages demonstration of R&D and laboratory supplies related to next generation sequencing and invites commercial sponsorship. You are invited to choose from a variety of highly-competitive sponsorship packages listed below. If your needs are not covered by the offered packages please contact us in the first instance and we shall do our best to develop a package to suit your requirements. For a Booking Form and further information about packages and other promotional opportunities email on: NGSOxford@gmail.com

Sponsorship packages include:

Gold: Includes a speaker slot AND an exhibition stand (max 2)
Silver: Includes a speaker slot OR an exhibition stand (max 2)
Event Halls
Drinks Reception
Delegate Bags (max 2)
Delegate Badges (max 2)
Event Documentation

Exhibition

To increase interaction with delegates, refreshments will be held in the main exhibition area. Spaces for exhibition are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. To get a location of choice, and to avail our special promotional offers we strongly recommend an early booking.

Exhibition package includes the following benefits:

Admittance for TWO exhibitors (includes lunches and refreshments)
Approximately 8 (w) feet x 4 (d) feet exhibition area (with 5 x 2 feet table top and two chairs)
On site parking for one car
Free weblink to one preferred website and brief company description on the conference website and handbook
Access to multiple use delegate emailing list

Sponsor and Conduct a Technology Workshop

NGS2014 invites NGS solution/service/reagents providers to sponsor and conduct 1hr, 2hr or 3hr technology workshops. The workshops will be conducted on 02 April (PM) and 03 April (AM). Spaces for technology workshop are limited and will be offered after careful consideration by the scientific committee. For further information please email us on: NGSOxford@gmail.com.

Terms & Conditions of Booking.

NGS2014 Sponsors:

NGS 2014 Gold Sponsor, Exhibitor and Tech Workshop Presenter

QIAGEN Redwood City, the company’s Center of Excellence in Biological Analysis and Interpretation, is a leading provider of biomedical information and analysis solutions for the exploration, interpretation and analysis of complex biological systems. Marketed under the Ingenuity brand, these innovative solutions are used by tens of thousands of researchers and clinicians at hundreds of leading institutions worldwide. Further information can be found at www.qiagen.com/ingenuity.

Symposium Gold Sponsor and Exhibitor

Quantum Biosystems was formed in January of 2013 and is developing 4th Generation DNA and RNA sequencing systems for the low cost and high throughput analysis of whole genomes. While present systems require complicated sample preparation, and costly instruments, the QB platform has no such barriers to entry and is well positioned to bring about what some have called “the Democratization of DNA sequencing”.

The platform allows the direct sequencing of single stranded DNA and RNA without labelling or modification, on silicon devices which can be produced on the same production lines as consumer grade integrated circuits. As the system uses no proteins or other reagents it is potentially ultra-low cost, enabling consumer level genome sequencing.

Based on basic research at the University of Osaka, the QB platform uses sub-nanometer gaps and picoamp level currents to directly detect the conductance of single DNA and RNA molecules. This breakthrough in molecular sensing promises to bring to about a fundamentally new class of sensors.

Symposium Gold Sponsor, Exhibitor and Tech Workshop Presenter

Arkivum provides a large scale, long term, cost effective data archiving service with a unique 100% data integrity guarantee.

Managed Service means more to us than just ensuring that the service is available. Arkivum’s service constantly monitors the health of the archive, upgrading and migrating as technology advances, to ensure that data held within our service is always current and accessible. This means that:

o For every bit of data that you put in we will return it to you bit perfect in one year or 50 years or more;
o Arkivum provides the only digital archiving service underwritten by a 100% data integrity guarantee.

Arkivum’s service is targeted at organisations that have a defined responsibility to archive electronic data for long periods of time, where:

o there is a compliance requirement is driven either by cost savings, legalisation or by industry good practice;
o easy access to archived data is required.

With large volumes of data – which are growing at increasing rates year on year – which need to be retained, such organisations face ever increasing storage costs as they retain this archive data on expensive media such as disk.

Arkivum provides a low cost, highly secure and easy to use solution to these challenges.

The benefits of the Arkivum approach include increased levels of compliance whilst at the same time reducing the IT spend on storage and administrative overhead.

Symposium Silver Sponsor and Exhibitor

Pacific Biosciences offers the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System to help scientists solve genetically complex problems. Based on our novel Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) technology, our products enable: de novo genome assembly to finish genomes in order to fully identify, annotate and decipher genomic structures; targeted sequencing to more comprehensively characterize genetic variations; and DNA base modification identification to help characterize epigenetic regulation and DNA damage. Our technology provides the industry’s highest consensus accuracy and longest read lengths along with the ability to detect real-time kinetic information. The PacBio RS II System, including consumables and software, provides a simple, fast, end-to-end workflow for SMRT Sequencing.

Our customers and our scientific collaborators have published a number of peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature, Genome Research and The New England Journal of Medicine highlighting the power and applications of the SMRT platform in projects such as finishing genomes, rare mutation discovery and the identification of chemical modifications of DNA related to virulence and pathogenicity. Our R&D efforts are focused on expanding the performance of our platform by exploiting the unique capabilities of our Zero-Mode Waveguide (ZMW)-based technology and by expanding the application space.

By providing access to genetic information that was previously inaccessible, Pacific Biosciences enables scientists to increase their understanding of biological systems.