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Machine Learning for Quick Leukemia Diagnosis

Tonight I watched Gabriel Griffin, Assistant Professor, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute present an Oxford Nanopore Technology session titled “Rapid epigenomic classification of acute leukemia with long-read sequencing.” Griffin spoke about leukemia diagnosis requiring multiple steps and time: morphology, flow cytometry, immuno histochemistry stains, targeted sequencing, and cytogenetics. This can take up to fourteen days. Griffin and […]
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Harnessing Multimedia for Online Course Engagement

Tonight I watched Steven R. Crawford, the District Director Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation, present again at Quality Matters (QM). The title of this session was “Beyond Video: Harnessing Multimedia for Engaging Online Courses.” Crawford spoke about video and screen casting. Immersive video was also mentioned as a way to share virtual field trips, […]
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MAXQDA 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Qualitative Analysis

Alexis Chavez spoke at MAXDAYS 2025 on “MAXQDA 101: Essentials for new users.” Chavez is a graduate student at the University of Nebraska. Chavez explained that MAXQDA is capable of qualitative and mixed method analyses. The software also has tools for statistical analyses. Chavez noted that a general workflow within MAXQDA starts with organizing the […]
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Celebrating ASM Carski Award Winners and Their Impact

Tonight, I watched Stanley Maloy, Editor-in-Chief of JMBE, host a conversation at ASM Microbe 2022 in DC. This was a conversation with four ASM Carski Award winners: Nancy Boury, David Westenberg, Mark Martin, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, about their insights into excellence in undergraduate teaching. Westenberg spoke about about student success as part of the reason why […]
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Nanopore Sequencing Revolutionizes Cell Engineering

Daniel K. Fabian from Lonza in the UK presented at the Biopharma Day in Boston on “Precision cell engineering enabled through nanopore sequencing.” Lonza Biologics produces therapeutic molecules for clients using CHO cell-based manufacturing pipelines. The first step is the construction of the vector. The DNA is transfected into their cell line, and clones are […]
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Isopod: Detecting Differential Transcript Usage in Long-Read Single-Cell Data

Michael Nakai from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia spoke at London Calling 2024. The session title was “Isopod: detecting differential isoform usage from long-read single-cell data.” Nakai is a Ph.D. candidate and explained why we are interested in isoforms and splicing events. With long-read sequencing, information about splicing and different isoforms can be […]
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Long-read Human Genome Sequencing Service

Andrea Riposati from Dante Labs in the US presented at London Calling 2019 on “Human long-read whole genome sequencing: applications and results.” Riposati is the co-founder and CEO of Dante Labs. They presented a case of a patient who had suffered 45 years without a diagnosis. Dante Labs provided whole genome sequencing and pharmacogenomics lab. […]
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Interpreting Structure with Pore-C

Pore-C is a method I hear about, yet I don’t fully understand the details. Eoghan Harrington from Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) presented at London Calling 2019 a session titled “Pore-C: a method for genome-wide, multi-contact chromosome conformation capture.”Harrington is part of the applications team and focuses on genomic applications. They collaborate with various partners. The […]
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Accuracy Improvements in Crop Genome Assembly

Tonight, I watched a recording from the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 featuring Alexander Wittenberg from KeyGene in the Netherlands. They presented “Accuracy improvements in crop genome assembly using the Q20+ chemistry.” KeyGene is a crop innovation company, and they are generating new tools for genome assembly and structural variant analysis, among other analyses. They built […]
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