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Advancements in Multi-Omics and Precision Health at London Calling 2024

The studio interviews at London Calling 2024 I watched tonight focused on clinical and translational applications. Zoe McDougall asked the three interviewees about the highlights of the updates talk. Ewan Birney director of EMBL-EBI in the UK spoke about the quality updates. Justin O’Sullivan from Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland in New Zealand […]
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies: Advancing Research and Applications in the Next Decade

Tonight, I watched another London Calling 2024 studio interview. Zoe McDougall previously interviewed two of the three guests. Ronja Friedhoff is a master’s student at the Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany. They explained the benefits of networking opportunities at London Calling 2024: Friedhoff learned about new research areas and met new people. Ivo Gut from […]
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From Troubleshooting to Streamlining

What a weekend! I am back from the NSF ENCOUR conference. I continued watching studio interviews from London Calling 2024. Tonight, the session I watched focused on pathogen surveillance and community and collaboration. Amanda Warr from The Roslin Institute spoke about learning to use Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) with metagenomic samples and troubleshooting in the […]
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Telomeres, Cell-free RNAs, and On-site Sequencing

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 studio interview about innovations in conservation and RNA in liquid biopsy. Zoe McDougall interviewed three researchers about conservation genomics and the accessibility of the technologies. Mrinalini Wasta from the San Diego Zoe Wildlife Alliance spoke about the challenges of taking samples from outside communities and involving partners. The […]
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Learning from the London Calling 2024 Community

The London Calling 2024 virtual platform is no longer available! So, tonight, I started watching the available YouTube playlists. The first consists of studio interviews. I watched the “LC24 Studio: Understanding Structural Variation, Population Genomics” session. Zoe McDougall interviewed presenters. Belen de la Morena from the University of Murcia in Spain spoke about their interest […]
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CoRAL ecDNA Analysis Toolkit

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 session “CoRAL accurately resolves extrachromosomal DNA structures with long-read sequencing.” Matthew Jones from Stanford University was the presenter and spoke about their toolkit to study extrachromosomal (ecDNA) oncogene (focal) amplifications. ecDNA seems to be large (100 kb-50 Mb) circular and highly rearranged. Jones noted it is also rapidly […]
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Adeno-associated Virus Hepatitis

Oscar Enrique Torres Montaguth from the University College London in the UK presented at London Calling 2024 on “Genomic studies of adeno-associated virus hepatitis.” The team identified AAV2 in liver/blood samples of a pediatric hepatitis outbreak in 2022. These AAVs are commonly used as vectors in gene therapy, and hepatitis can occur with treatments. The […]
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From Plant to Publication in a Couse

I have been curious about the title of a session from London Calling 2024: “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig in Germany was the presenter and explained the wide variety of plants and potential for genome sequencing. Wolf and the team wanted to enable students to […]
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Container Labs and Rich Biodiversity

Mrinalini Watsa from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance presented at London Calling 2024 a session titled “Into the unknown: portable sequencing empowers global conservation genomics.” I believe Watsa presented at a previous London Calling. They spoke about biodiversity loss and how we likely don’t know the true diversity. Watsa presented examples of amphibian genomic […]
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Chromosome End Telomere Length Conservation and Variability

Continuing with the London Calling 2024 sessions available on demand, tonight I watched Carol Greider from the University of California, Santa Cruz, present on “Nanopore sequencing reveals conservation of chromosome end-specific telomere lengths.” Greider spoke about telomeres, DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes and their roles. Human telomeres consist of tandem repeats of a […]
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