Date: August 18, 2026 | Tuesday | 8:00 AM, Manila Time

Venue: 300 (Jose G. Sanvictores Room), ISSI (Institute for Small-Scale Industries), UP Diliman Campus, Quezon City, 1101

This seminar is a collaborative activity between PGC, DKSH, PacBio, and the UP National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Interested participants may attend onsite or via a Zoom stream.

Speakers:

• Alexander Hoischen, PhD – “Enabling First Line Rare Disease Testing with HiFi Sequencing” Full Professor ‘Genomic Technologies for Immune-mediated and Infectious Diseases’; Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Catherine Lynn Silao, MD, PhD – “Screening for Rare Inherited Disorders: Lessons from the Philippine Experience” Consultant, Department of Pediatrics, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital & Research Professor, National Institutes of Health Philippines
• Jennifer Hsu, MSc – “Reveal more with HiFi Long Read Sequencing” Associate Sales Director, North, South & South East Asia, PacBio