Important Announcement

Due to the international COVID -19 pandemic, the MAQC Society rescheduled the MAQC Society 2020 Meeting at SAS Institute in Cary, NC for April 28-30, 2021 at the SAS Institute (same location). A sister organization, MCBIOS, will be planning to meet April 26-28, 2021. More announcements for abstracts and programs will occur in late 2020 and early 2021.

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The MAQC Society will be holding its 4th annual meeting.

Venue: SAS Campus in Cary, NC Carolina, USA, adjacent to Research Triangle Park

Theme: Reproducibility – A 2020s Vision

Hotel: The primary hotel will be the Embassy Suites in Cary, NC (201 Harrison Oaks Blvd, Cary, NC USA 27513)

Planned Speakers and Highlights:

Keynote Speakers
- Dr. William Slikker, Director of FDA-NCTR
- Dr. Andrew Marshall, Editor-in-Chief, Nature Biotechnology
- Dr. Rebecca Doerge, Dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University
- Dr. Joel Parker, Director, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core
Invited Speakers
- Dr. Kelly Rose, Program Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Dr. Elena Helman, Director of Bioinformatics, Guardant Health
- Dr. Shirley Wang, Asst. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and REPEAT Director
Special sessions on the FDA-led Sequencing Quality Control (SEQC) Phase 2 project
- Reproducibility in cancer genomics
- Best practices for analyzing next-generation sequencing data
- Cross-lab and cross-platform performance characteristics for WGS, oncopanel sequencing, and liquid biopsy
We will offer
- support for both postdoctoral fellows and graduate/under-graduate students (hotel and registration waiver) upon acceptance for either poster or oral presentation. Support will be on a first come, first served basis.
- poster awards - Cash award and one-year free subscription to Nature Biotechnology

This will be a joint meeting with MCBIOS (April 26-28, 2021).

Wendell Jones, President of the MAQC Society

Weida Tong, Board Chairperson of the MAQC Society