Session Chair Profile

Ph.D., Senior Director of R&D, Serimmune, Inc

Biography
Dr. Kamath is a founding scientist at Serimmune, Inc. Her expertise in therapeutic and diagnostic development has been essential to Serimmune’s Serum Epitope Repertoire Analysis (SERA) platform. SERA combines the power of bacterial display peptide library technology with next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics to profile antibody repertoires and identify and map antibody-based biomarkers of infections, autoimmunity and cancer. Once discovered, all the biomarkers can be assayed simultaneously from a single test, potentially reducing time to diagnosis or providing insights into the cause of undiagnosed disease. Prior to her work at Serimmune, Dr. Kamath worked on the development of cancer companion diagnostic and diagnostic assays at Agilent Technologies as well as modified therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (ProbodiesTM) at CytomX Therapeutics. She received her Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara with an emphasis on cancer biology and therapy.


 Session Abstract – PMWC 2022 Silicon Valley


Sequencing technologies are continuously improving, making it easier to obtain more in-depth molecular information than ever before. Emerging single-cell multi-omics sequencing technologies allow the capture of multiple modalities from a cell, including its epigenome, transcriptome, epitranscriptome, and proteome. This allows research into the heterogeneity of many biological mechanisms, and insights into complex molecular mechanisms that underpin disease.

Sessions:

  • 4th Generation Sequencing Technologies & Genome Mapping Systems
    - Barrett Bready, Nabsys
    - Alka Chaubey, Bionano Genomics
    - Eli Glezer, Singular Genomics
  • Long-Read Sequencing Technologies
    - Steve Turner, PacBio
  • Single Cell Genomics
    - Michael Schnall-Levin, 10x Genomics
  • Spatial Transcriptomics
    - Jason T. Gammack, Resolve Biosciences
  • Pathogen Identification
    Session Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
    - Philip Stevens, Noscendo
  • Metagenomics and Microbial Profiling
    - Amrie Grammer, Ampel BioSolutions
  • ML/AI for Diagnosis & Prognosis
    - Todd Dickinson, Arc Bio
  • Modern Technologies for Pathogen Identification + AI
    Session Chair: Sivan Bercovici, Karius Dx
  • Novel SBS Methodology
    - Josh Lauer, Ultima Genomics
  • Proteogenomics
    - Nigel Beard, Encodia
  • Advances Proteomics - Stratifying Cardiovascular Risk to Decrease Cost of Care
    Session Chair: Roy Smythe, SomaLogic
    - Adrian Lee, UPMC
    - Jamie Bauersmith, UPMC
  • Leveraging Immune System Diagnostics to Improve Disease Outcomes
    Session Chair: Kathy Kamath, Serimmune, Inc
    - Noah Nasser, Serimmune, Inc
    - Sasha Tabachnikova, Yale
  • Evolving Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutics with Neuro Diagnostic Therapies (PANEL)
    Session Chair: Kevin Hrusovsky, Quanterix
    - Charlotte Teunissen, Amsterdam UMC
    - Henrik Zetterberg, University of Gothenburg
    - Nicholas Ashton, University of Gothenburg
  • PMWC Showcase (NCI)
    - Michael Cardone, Eutropics Pharmaceuticals
    - Robert Meltzer, Fluent BioSciences
    - Cynthia Taylor Lawley, Olink Proteomics
    - Niro Ramachandran, Akoya Biosciences
    - Asim Siddiqui, Seer