Speakers include:

• Samer M. Hussein, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Université Laval). Title: Long non-coding RNAs in development and disease (10 min talk)
• Gabriel Khelifi (PhD student in Samer Hussen’s lab, Université Laval). Title: Investigating complex gene sequences using Nanopore long-read RNA sequencing (10 min talk)
• Bastien Paré (Nanopore account executive, Oxford Nanopore Technologies). Title: Long-read sequencing, a versatile research tool, from Cégep to University (20 min talk, half on applications of nanopore sequencing for RNA research and half on his own career path from academia to industry)