Dr. Ayako Suzuki

Associate Professor - Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Ayako Suzuki is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo who graduated from Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo with a Ph.D. in 2015. She is currently working on long-read sequencing of lung cancer genomes to characterize complicated mutation patterns of cancer genomes in collaboration with National Cancer Center, Japan. She is also conducting multi-layered sequencing analysis for elucidating epigenomic and transcriptomic aberrations in cancer cells.

The Most Comprehensive Insight in Cancer Genomes: New Discoveries

With the genetics behind cancer being both diverse and complex, there are many genomic deviations that need to be detected and analyzed to further our understanding of the disease. Using nanopore sequencing, scientists can achieve the most comprehensive insight into cancer genomes. To explore this further, this symposium will bring together experts in cancer research, where they’ll cover how they are using the technology.

The speakers will discuss detecting missing structural variants, characterizing mutation patterns and how nanopore sequencing has advanced their research.