Reflections

The Challenge of Sequencing the Abeoforma Genome

Victoria Shabardina from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC) in Spain presented at London Calling 2022 on “Enigmatic genome of Abeoforma whisleri helps our understanding of the origin of animals.” This eleven-minute session has an intriguing title: what is A. whisleri? They spoke about the origin of multicellularity and the closest unicellular relatives. The organisms […]
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Basecamp Research and Responsible Exploration

Continuing with London Calling 2022 videos, tonight I watched the session with Glen Gowers & Bupe Mwambingu from Basecamp Research. They spoke about “Responsible Exploration of our planet’s biodiversity towards discovery-enabled biodesign.” This was a showcase presentation with a few slides and and questions from the audience. Gowers is the cofounder of Basecamp Research. Mwambingu […]
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Metagenomic Analysis of Water from Brazilian Reservoirs and Ponds

I am still thinking about the Nanopore talk I watched yesterday. I now want to try using Flongle flow cells again! Tonight, I watched Douglas Mendel from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil present at London Calling 2022. The session was only six minutes long and had the intriguing title: “Comparative metagenomics of natural and […]
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Bacterial Race Typing with the Flongle

I was excited to come across an Oxford Nanopore Technologies YouTube video from London Calling 2022 that included the use of the Flongle! Abigail Stack from Bayer Crop Sciences spoke about “The POREtal to advancing plant diagnostics: Flongle for tomato bacterial race typing and beyond.” Stack started by explaining their role as a plant pathologist […]
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Validation of a Rapid Glioma Molecular Detection Method

Mashiat Mimosa from the University of Toronto, Canada, spoke about “Optimization and validation of a nanopore-based sequencing method for potential molecular testing of CNS tumours.” Mimosa explained that brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and glioma brain tumors account for >80% of all malignant tumors! Glioma diagnostic algorithm is very complex […]
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An Impactful Practical

Reindert Nijland from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands wanted to teach more students about Nanopore and long-read sequencing. Nijland presented at the 2022 London Calling conference a very short (three minute) session describing how they use “Nanopore sequencing for biodiversity assessment in an educational setting.” They developed an Advanced Molecular Ecology course to help […]
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Early Detection of Changes in Esophageal Adenocarcinomas

Alvin Ng from the Early Cancer Institute at the University of Cambridge in the UK presented at London Calling 2022 on “Early detection of Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing.” They began by explaining Barrett’s esophagus (BE) as the pre-malignant condition of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) and has three stages: non-dysplastic, low-grade […]
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Ultradeep Targeted Transcript Profiling!

Rosemary Bamford from the University of Exeter, UK, presented at London Calling 2022 on “Long-read transcriptome sequencing reveals isoform diversity across human neurodevelopment and aging.” Bamford spoke about how they are using long-read transcriptome sequencing to study neuropsychiatric disorders. I didn’t know neuropsychiatric disorders have such prevalence globally! There are some findings revealing genetic risk […]
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Applying Nanopore Technologies in the Undergraduate Lab

Ashley Beck from Carroll College spoke about “Applying nanopore sequencing in the undergraduate classroom for environmental microbiome analysis” at the 2022 London Calling Conference. They explained that they are dedicated to bringing technology and education to teach undergraduates. They took samples from a contaminated river from Western Montana. With students, Beck collected samples. The next […]
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