Elizabeth Ross from the University of Queensland in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore on “Revolutionizing agriculture: harnessing the power of nanopore sequencing in genomics.” They work in the Center for Animal Science focusing on improving production. Ross spoke about the growing population and limited resources. Ross explained that genomic breeding is […]
Tonight I watched the Nanopore Community Meeting: Singapore 2023 session entitled “Product demo: Anyone and anything: unleashing the power of PromethION for human genomics to conservation.” Dan Fordham from Strategic Product Management, Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), spoke about the capabilities of human sequencing from extraction to data. They also explained the Org.one program and how […]
Rosemary Sinclair Dokos, the SVP of Product and Programme Management at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, presented an updated at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore 2023. They considered this a mid-year update since their major updates were during London Calling 2023. Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) strives for “Towards the Sequencing of Anything by Anyone Anywhere.” Sinclair […]
Tonight I watched Dan Turner, SVP of Applications at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) give an update from the applications team at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore. Turner talked about the applications team with researchers and groups in Singapore, the UK, and a couple other locations. Turner focused on Nanopore use for Pharmacogenomics (PGx). They […]
Jianjun Liu from the Genome Institute of Singapore presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2023 in Singapore a session entitled “Redefining telomere-to-telomere genome assembly strategy using the Oxford Nanopore platform.” They did a study in collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) to assemble a telomere-to-telomere (T2T) human genome with only Nanopore reads. Liu spoke about […]
Stephanie Yu from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in China presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore (2023) on “Long cell-free DNA: the beginning of a new era in liquid biopsy.” Cell-free DNA is released into circulation after cell lysis. Their group is interested in novel molecular diagnostics based on cell-free DNA in […]
Ji Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore this year on “Application and history of nanopore sequencing in helping China’s CDC system.” They described extensive network of the CDC in China with 3,000 units. Wang shared data from a survey of lab […]
I continued watching London Calling 2023 Daily Preview recordings. Zoe McDougall spoke with Loic Lesobre and Stephanie Banakis. Banakis is from NIAID, NIH and Lesobre is from Reneco International Wildlife. Lesobre is involved in large scale breeding and conservation efforts, while Banakis works with influenza. They spoke about the overlaps in their work. Banakis discussed […]
Tonight I watched the Question & Answer session of the Conservation Showcase from London Calling 2023. The moderator noted how each of the three panelists had very projects. Phoebe Oldach from Basecamp Research in the UK spoke about bioprospecting and not reinventing the wheel… improving discovery. Matthew Miller from Reneco International Wildlife Consultants in the United Arab Emirates noted […]
Tonight I watched Zoe McDougall, VP Strategic Communications and Corporate Affairs at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), interview Rich Scott and Abdul Karim Sesay at London Calling 2023. Scott is a medic with Genomics England and was excited about using single-cell sequencing to learn about tumors. Sesay is from the MRC Unit in Gambia and spoke […]