Year: 2023

Adaptive Sampling for In-depth Amniotic Infection Analyses

One of the London Calling 2023 Showcase Stage sessions was on Targeted Sequencing. Tonight, i watched the four-minute recording entitled “Rapid identification of bacterial invasion: full-length 16S or adaptive sampling?” The title intrigued me! I am waiting for the release of the updated 16S amplicon kit. There were several panelists and Thidathip Wongsurawat from the […]
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High-throughput Contract Micro with ONT

Andrzej Benkowski from Eurofins USA presented at London Calling 2023 a five-minute session on the “Practical uses of nanopore long-read sequencing in a high-throughput contract food microbiology laboratory.” They are a high-throughput contract lab specializing in food and dietary supplement investigations using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) with the GridION. One client experienced an increase […]
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Copper Butterflies Genomes and ORG.one

Tonight I watched Dan Fordham, Director of Strategic Product Management EMEA at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) speak at London Calling 2023 about. Fordham is the lead for the Org.one project in which ONT tries to address the global biodiversity crisis. ORG.one offers free consumables and kits to users sequencing critically endangered organisms. One of the […]
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Squiggle Analysis for Living and Dead Microorganisms

Tonight, I watched Harika Urel from the Helmholtz AI Institute and Technical University of Munich present a five-minute talk at London Calling 2023. The intriguing title of the recording is “Squiggle analysis for metagenomics viability inference.” Urel is a Ph.D. student in Dr. Lara Urban’s lab. I have watched several talks by Urban in the […]
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Melon Genome Sequencing and the NLRome

Javier Belinchon-Moreno from INRAE-EPGV in France spoke at London Calling 2023 about “Exploring the genetic and functional diversity of the NLRome/resistome in melon using nanopore adaptive sampling.” They started by describing how Nanopore adaptive sampling works and its adaptability to a variety of uses. Belinchon-Moreno and team used Nanopore adaptive sampling (NAS) to “decipher the […]
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Genome Assemblies for Chromosomal Evolution Analyses of Marsupials

Patrick G.S. Grady from the University of Connecticut presented at London Calling 2023 a session entitled: “Unraveling chromosomal evolution in marsupials: comparative genomics and methylomics with telomere-to-telomere precision.” Grady spoke about the use of marsupials as a model. They have pentapedal locomotion, unique reproduction, and dynamic forms of cancer. Their genome scan be studied with […]
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A Unique Approach to Find Fantastic Methanotrophs

Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 session entitled “Fantastic methanotrophs and where to find them” by Kalinka Sand Knudsen from Aaborg University in Denmark. Knudsen spoke about how methane retains heat and reducing emissions is critical. Knudsen is interested in methane-consuming bacteria that can survive on elevated concentrations of methane and some can oxidize […]
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Targeted Nanopore Sequencing to Detect Immune Escape Variants

The five minute London Calling 2023 session entitled “Targeted nanopore sequencing using hybridisation probes reveals immune escape polymorphisms in malaria vaccine candidates” was a talk by Alyssa Barry from Deakin University in Australia. They spoke about the global number of cases of malaria, deaths, and people at risk. Malaria vaccine is challenging because of the […]
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Rapid Biodiversity Assessments thorough mtDNA Sequencing

Mariana Corrales Orozco from EAFIT University in Colombia spoke at London Calling 2023 about “Revolutionizing biodiversity research: Oxford Nanopore sequencing for the rapid and accurate identification of endangered species.” They started with heat maps depicting species diversity and the challenges of identifying new species. Typically, an expert taxonomist examines a sample. This approach requires sacrificing […]
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EPI2ME Labs Metagenomics Workflows on the Cloud

Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 product demo for “Analysing bacterial genomes – from species identification to AMR.” Stephen Rudd, Director of Bioinformatics Product at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), shared their work on EPI2ME labs products. They have been developing EPI2ME Labs workflows for several years. These are pre-installed workflows that can help solve […]
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