Presentations & Talks

January 24, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Diversity, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, Softwares, Why

SLOW5 for Indigenous Genomics

Andre Reis from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 on “A long-read nanopore sequencing platform for Indigenous genomics.” Their efforts to increase efforts to increase representation of Indigenous people in Australia. Reis spoke about indigenous Australians and the lack of representation in current catalogues. Thus, there […]

January 23, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections

New Diagnostic Approaches Using Nanopore Sequencing

Professor Laurent Mesnard from from the Medecine Sorbonne Universite spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 about “Rapid genomic analysis for thrombotic microangiopathies (TMA) diagnosis.” Their approach combined Nanopore adaptive sampling, EPI2ME, and SeqOne approach. They described TMA and the need to detect early. Mesnard explained that the biggest challenge for TMA is early intervention. […]

January 20, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, sequencing, Softwares, Undergraduate Research, Website, Why, Workshop

Alignments and Assemblies

We began working with the VolTRAX2 today. I’m excited to use it for library preps along with the Miroculus Miro. Tonight I watched the NCM 2022 Masterclass session by Matt Attreed on “How to generate and call variants.” Attreed is a technical applications scientist (bioinformatics) with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. They began by providing an introduction […]

January 18, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, sequencing, Softwares, Undergraduate Research, Workshop

Flongles and Several MinIONs and PromethIONs

Austin Compton is a Technical Applications Specialist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies and presented a masterclass at NCM 2022. We’ve used the MinION but I don’t know as much about the PromethION and Flongle. Compton shared a slide that indicated that the Flongle flow cells have 126 pores, MinION flow cells have 512, and PromethION flow […]

January 17, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Undergraduate Research, Website, Workshop

A Collection of Library Prep Options for Nanopore

Yan Yang from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Technical Services North America West Coast Team, presented the NCM 2022 Masterclass “How to select the right library preparation workflow for your experiment.” Yang explained how Nanopore DNA/RNA sequencing works as the nucleic acid is passed through a nanopore and electrical signals are interpreted into sequence data. Yang […]

January 15, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Online Learning, Presentations & Talks, QM, Reflections, UDL

From Course Preparation to QM Review

Tonight I watched the Quality Matters session entitled “Two Sides of the QM Equation: Perspectives from a Course Representative and Course Reviewer” presented by Cindy Ambrose (Low Country Virtual), Jenna Wells (Berkley County School District), and Sharon McMahon (Beaufort County School District). They shared their experience submitting and reviewing courses. The first part of the […]

January 14, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections

CHLOE 7

Tonight I watched the QM session entitled “CHLOE 7: Tracking Online Learning from Mainstream Acceptance to Universal Adoption. CHLOE stands for The Changing Landscape of Online Education. Richard Garnett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at Encoura, was the first speaker. Dr. Bethany Simunich, Director of Research and Innovation at Quality Matters was the co-presenter. Over the […]

January 9, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Accessibility and UDL, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Why

Fourteen Recommendations and Several Great Questions about Creating More Inclusive Environments

“Creating More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Bio” is the title of the Online with LSE Webinar recording I watched tonight. It is from almost two years ago. Sara Brownell was the speaker and presented work from a SABER Special Interest Group (SIG) that worked on recommendations. Brownell shared recommendations that language matters (I paraphrase and […]

January 7, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Case Studies, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Why

A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]

January 4, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Undergraduate Research, Wellbeing, Why, Writing

A Course on Feedback, Mentoring, and Science Communication

Dr. Diedra Wrighting presented at the Online with LSE webinar series on “Teaching Undergrads to Communicate Science, Cultivate Mentoring Relationships, and Navigate Science Culture.” Wrighting is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University in Boston. They emphasized the importance of mentoring and obtained funding to create a two-credit course in […]