Year: 2024

Promoting Community and Biodiversity with Org.one

Tomas Marques-Bonet from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Spain spoke about the Org.one project at the Nanopore Community Meeting in 2021. The title of the session was “ORG.one: a new program to promote sequencing biodiversity.” They spoke about the mass extinction of species and the need to preserve biodiversity. Marques-Bonet explained how biodiversity genomics […]
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CanSeq150 to Sequence Canada’s Most Endangered Species

The London Calling 2021 session “CanSeq150: high-resolution genomic sequencing and assembly of 150 Canadian species” caught my attention today. Jahanshah Ashkani from Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center was the speaker. The goal is to save Canada’s rich biodiversity by sequencing unique species. Loss of biodiversity is an issue: there are over 700 species at […]
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Sequencing a Fungal Banana Pathogen

Luca Degradi from the University of Milan in Italy presented at London Calling 2021 about “Chromosome-level genome assembly of Fusarium musae using MinION.” They described this organism as a “cross-kingdom pathogen” reported by the HUPLANTcontrol program in Europe. The organism can infect bananas and humans! The first infection seems to have been a human. At […]
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Omic Approaches to Sequence the Guar Plant

Elizaveta Grigoreva from Saint Petersburg State Forestry University in Russia presented at London Callling 2021 on “Whole-genome assembly of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba [L.] Taub.) by second- and third-generation sequencing approaches.” The guar plant is native to India, Pakistan, and the US. It is a legume used in the oil industry as a gelling agent in […]
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Assembly of A Model of Plant Evolution

Issa Diop from the University of Zurich in Switzerland presented at London Calling 2021 on “Chromosomal-scale assembly of the liverwort Marchantia paleacea.” Diop discussed chloroplasts and endosymbionts before introducing Marchantia as a model of plant evolution. Marchantia has a haploid-dominant life cycle with a genome size of 280 Mbp. There are eight autosomes and 1 […]
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The Pangenome of Rice

I am starting the Assembly playlist from ONT tonight. Francois Sabot from France’s French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development spoke at London Calling 2021. They described the pangenome as the differences between two individuals in their genomes. The shared part is called the core genome, and the non-shared components are called the dispensable or […]
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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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