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Use of ONT by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Ji Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore this year on “Application and history of nanopore sequencing in helping China’s CDC system.” They described extensive network of the CDC in China with 3,000 units. Wang shared data from a survey of lab […]
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Endangered Birds and Influenza

I continued watching London Calling 2023 Daily Preview recordings. Zoe McDougall spoke with Loic Lesobre and Stephanie Banakis. Banakis is from NIAID, NIH and Lesobre is from Reneco International Wildlife. Lesobre is involved in large scale breeding and conservation efforts, while Banakis works with influenza. They spoke about the overlaps in their work. Banakis discussed […]
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Conservation Genomics Improvements with ONT

Tonight I watched the Question & Answer session of the Conservation Showcase from London Calling 2023. The moderator noted how each of the three panelists had very projects. Phoebe Oldach from Basecamp Research in the UK spoke about bioprospecting and not reinventing the wheel… improving discovery. Matthew Miller from Reneco International Wildlife Consultants in the United Arab Emirates noted […]
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Building Capacity and Sharing Data

Tonight I watched Zoe McDougall, VP Strategic Communications and Corporate Affairs at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), interview Rich Scott and Abdul Karim Sesay at London Calling 2023. Scott is a medic with Genomics England and was excited about using single-cell sequencing to learn about tumors. Sesay is from the MRC Unit in Gambia and spoke […]
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Conservation Efforts Supported by Long-read Sequencing

Tonight I watched the entire London Calling 2023 Showcase Stage on Conservation. The first speaker was Luca Pandolfini from the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy who presented on “From genome assembly to epigenome characterisation: a nanopore journey in the footsteps of an endangered tortoise.” I remember this session! They worked on Pyxis arachnoides, a […]
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Targeted Sequencing Session Takeaways

Tonight I watched the entire Targeted sequencing showcase from London Calling 2023. The first panelist was Lukas Wellguny, a Ph.D. student from EMBL-EBI in the UK. Their presentation title was “Dynamic, adaptive sampling during nanopore sequencing using Bayesian experimental design.” They take data from the sequencer and incorporate a model to derive uncertainty scores at […]
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Using Nanopore Sequencing for Liquid Biopsies

The recording for the London Calling 2023 Liquid Biopsy session was posted, and I watched it tonight. The first panel member was Billy Lau who spoke about “Nanopore sequencing of cell-free DNA for methylation-based breast cancer detection in a case-control research cohort.” I had watched the individual talks previously but not the complete session. Lau […]
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Centromere Evolution in Gibbons

Gabrielle Hartley from the University of Connecticut presented at London Calling 2023 a session entitled “Telomere-to-telomere nanopore-based genome assembly reveals genomic and epigenetic features of karyotype radiation.” Hartley is a Ph.D. candidate. They are using Nanopore-based sequencing to learn about chromosome evolution in primates. Hartley is focusing on gibbons, small endangered apes with 18-20 species […]
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Characterization of Small eccDNA Involved in Cancer

Fei Xiao from the Beijing Hospital in China presented at London Calling 2023 a session entitled “Small extrachromosomal circular DNAs as biomarkers for potential pan-cancer diagnosis and prognosis.” They defined extrachromosomal DNA (eccDNA) as “circular DNA molecule that is independent of conventional chromosomes and exists widely in eukaryotes” and can vary in length, though most […]
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