Month: February 2024

Digesting and Sequencing Stromatolites

I spent the day at ECU at the QM Summit! It was a lot of fun! Tonight, I watched Nicole Wagner from Georgetown University present on “Evolutionary history of conical stromatolites.” This is the last video of the metagenomics playlist! Conical stromatolites can be used to study their formation and used to learn about microbial […]
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Student Sampling of Contaminated Water Systems

Megan Radosevich from Carroll College presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Analyzing regional and seasonal microbial community variation from a contaminated Montana river.” Radosevich did work over the summer and during a course in Montana. The project is part of the Consortium for Research on Environmental Water Systems (CREWS). One of the main […]
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Disturbance of Microbial Communities in Permafrost

The amazing Devin Drown from the University of Alaska Fairbanks presented at London Calling on “Evaluating the effects of the changing permafrost ecosystem through the lens of genomics.” Drown spoke about the rapid changes in permafrost, including nutrient and microbial community disturbances. The study investigated how permafrost-induced disturbances affect the active layer soil microbial communities. […]
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Boxwood Blight Detection

Marcela Aguilera Flores from Virginia Tech presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on “Culture-free detection of boxwood blight to improve disease diagnosis and prevention.” Aguilera Flores spoke about the use of the MinION for metagenomics to detect the fungi that cause blight in the boxwood. According to Aguilera Flores, boxwood is an important ornamental […]
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Sampling Methods in the Arctic

Eric Bortz is a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Bortz presented at London Calling on “MinION Below Zero: sequencing microbes and marine mammals, birds, and the Alaskan coastal environment from low-quality samples, including whale snot”! What a title! I watched this session today to learn about the variety of samples they are sequencing. […]
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Astrobiology and Culture-based Science

Rebecca D. Prescott from the University of Edinburgh in the UK presented at London Calling 2019. The title of the session was ‘O na Hoku no na Kiu o ka Lani: Bridging genomics research and culture-based science education through astrobiology in Hawai’i.” Prescott started by mentioning that they represent a large team supported by numerous […]
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Sampling the James River

Bonnie Brown from the Virginia Commonwealth University presented at London Calling on “An Epidemiological River Metagenome Based on MinION.” James River is a major river that has impacts on the environment. Brown is a conservation biologist curious about the fluctuations in the river’s biodiversity. They began performing whole genome sequencing and identified several epidemiologically relevant […]
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