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American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)

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Roche at the 2025 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Conference

14-18 October, 2025

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Boston, MA USA

Congress Overview

The annual ASHG conference is the major scientific and professional event in human genetics, bringing together geneticists whose field is developing extremely fast with important implications for basic science, medicine and society. 

The Roche Booth will feature:
  • AXELIOS next-generation sequencing platform, powered by sequencing by expansion (SBX) technology
  • Digital LightCycler dPCR System
  • LightCycler PRO 
  • KAPA RNA EvoPrep Kit
  • KAPA EvoPrep Boost Kit
  • KAPA EvoPlus Boost Kit 
  • KAPA HyperExome V2 Probes

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Roche booth

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CoLab Session:

Overview of AXELIOS sequencing system and research applications in whole genome sequencing

Speakers:

Mitu Chaudhary
Sr. Director, International Business Leader, Sequencing System, Roche Diagnostics Solutions

Jagdeesh Chandrasekar
Director of Advanced SBX Applications, Roche Diagnostics Solutions

Location/Time:
CoLab Theater 2
October 15, 2025
12:45-1:15pm EDT

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Industry Edu Session 1:

Advances in SBX: Multiomics, methylation mapping, oncology research and building a sustainable framework for ultra-rapid genome sequencing

Speakers:

Mark Kokoris
Head, SBX Technology, Roche Diagnostics Solutions

Katie Larkin
Director of Clinical Product Development and Strategy, Broad Clinical Labs

Location/Time:
Room 153ABC
October 15, 2025
3:00-4:00pm EDT

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Industry Edu Session 2:

Leveraging extremely high throughput and longer reads capability of SBX technology for advancing transcriptomics and spatial analysis

Speakers:

Dr. Brian Haas
Principal Computational Scientist Methods Development Laboratory (MDL), Broad Institute

Dr. Emma Davenport
Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Dr. Yutaka Suzuki
Professor at Life Science Data Research Center, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

Location/Time:
Room 152
October 16, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

The sequencing by expansion (SBX) technology is in development and not commercially available. The content of this material reflects current study results and/or design goals. The sequencing platform based on SBX technology will be launched for Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

KAPA products are for Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.

The Digital LightCycler® is a Class II US IVD instrument.