Today we’re pleased to announce the three winners of our latest SMRT Grant which called for teams of researchers and collaborative projects that could be addressed using the power of HiFi sequencing. The winners are seeking to solve a diverse set of questions from mussel-hopping transmissible cancer to the power of pistachios to help tackle ...

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We are pleased to announce the winner of this SMRT Grant: Mark Nicol of The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia for his project to use HiFi sequencing to determine species-level profiling of the upper respiratory microbiota to predict asthma in young children.

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We are proud to announce this year’s 2022 Plant + Animal SMRT Grant winners: Justin Conover, PhD. Postdoctoral Researcher, NSF Fellow. Iowa State University + University of Arizona. Joel Sharbrough, PhD. Assistant Professor. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

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We are pleased to announce and congratulate the finalists and winning proposals for both the Kinnex full-length and Kinnex single-cell prizes of the 2024 human RNA SMRT Grant. Kinnex Full-Length Winner: Christopher Vollmers

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Two winners will be chosen – one for a human genomics project that uses bulk RNA and one that uses single-cell RNA. We are excited to announce that award recipients will have access to our new Kinnex kits which offer scalable RNA sequencing with massively increased throughput!

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Announcing the Winners of Our Clinical Research SMRT Grant – Two Scientists at the Forefront of Discovery. Here at PacBio, we have had the privilege of awarding many SMRT Grants to intrepid scientists who believe that HiFi sequencing data can help them achieve their goals.

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Cleo van Diemen and her colleagues at the University Medical Center Groningen will use their SMRT Grant award to generate highly accurate long reads for two spinocerebellar ataxia patients with unknown disease etiology.

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Tell us in 100 words or less how PacBio HiFi sequencing in your project will contribute to understanding and developing AAV-based gene therapies for a chance to be one of five winners of sequencing on one SMRT cell 8M and a travel stipend to present your work at a PacBio event.

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Investigating splicing of transcripts in cancer cells: SMRT Grant winner announced. We’re pleased to announce the winner of this year’s ‘Open Your Eyes to Isoform Diversity’ SMRT Grant, which was launched during the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.

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That’s why we were so excited to announce our most recent Plant & Animal SMRT Grant winners from Canada’s Apple Diversity Lab within the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University. In Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, Zoë Migicovsky, Sophie Watts and Tom Davies study the tremendous natural diversity of apples and help breed new ...

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