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Rapid Viral Genome Sequencing: Highlights from a Recent Webinar

I watched the webinar tonight facilitated by Anna Maria Niewiadomska, Global Market Segment Manager in Public Health at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. They first spoke about using ONT for microbiology and infectious disease work. The turnaround time with the rapid library prep was one feature that Niewiadomska highlighted, as well as the real-time analysis and read-length […]
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Challenges in Clinical Sequencing Techniques

Tonight, I continued watching the Oxford Nanopore Technologies London Calling 2024 expert panel on “Building a rapid, targeted, and responsive infectious disease system.”Aaron Pomerantz, the Global Segment Marketing Associate Director at ONT, facilitated the session. All panelists were invited to the stage after doing brief introductions. Rahul Batra from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trus […]
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Building Effective Multi-Disease Surveillance Systems

Tonight, I started watching the Oxford Nanopore Technologies London Calling 2024 expert panel on “Building a rapid, targeted, and responsive infectious disease system.”Aaron Pomerantz, the Associate Director of Global Segment Marketing at ONT, helped facilitate the session. Dr. Ines Hassan from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change started. Hassan helps encourage the development and […]
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Understanding the MinION Mk1D: Innovations for Microbiology

Tonight, I continued watching the session on the MinION Mk1D. The second speaker of the webinar was James Platt, the Director of Sequencing Platforms with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). They described the details of the MinION’s history. The Mk1D was rebuilt, including USB-C connectivity, Peltier module temperature control, and LED run status indicators. A comparison of the Mk1B […]
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Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaskan Conditions

Tonight, I watched Devin M. Drown from the University of Alaska Fairbanks present on “Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaska.” Drown is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Institute of Arctic Biology Genomics Core. Drown is passionate about training, including doing MinION hackathons. Drown, like me, was excited to test the device. They […]
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Transforming Cancer Care with Nanopore Sequencing

I continued watching the “Nanopore Sequencing Ultra Rich Data for Cancer Research” webinar. It featured Sayonika Mohanta, the Market Segment Manager for Methylation with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). Mathilde Fiser from the Curie Institute presentation had the title “Transforming Cancer Care: Redefining Cancer Characterization and Predisposition Insights through Nanopore Sequencing.” Fiser explained that the identification of germline alterations […]
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Panel Discussion on Genomics: Advancements in Rare Disease Detection

Tonight, I continued watching the London Calling 2024 Clinical & Biopharma Day on Friday, May 24, 2024. I continued watching the expert panel on “Rare diseases reimagined: genomics in early detection and precision therapies,” which I started watching last night. Nabihah Sachedina, the VP of Health Programs with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) moderated the session. Paul Arvidson from Genomics […]
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Challenges in Storing Large-Scale Genomic Data

Tonight, I watched the question and answer session of the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) webinar on “Unlocking comprehensive genome analyses for large-scale projects.” The panelists were asked about the role of methylation in large-scale genome sequencing projects. They spoke about investigating methylation in rare diseases, which is emerging as an area of interest. Another question […]
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Exploring Clinical WGS on PromethION by Genomics England

Tonight, I continued watching the ONT webinar I started watching last night. The title of the session I watched was “Towards clinical WGS on the PromethION” by Greg Elgar, Director of Sequencing R&D at Genomics England. Elgar started by saying that they have three benchtop PromethIONs. Elgar described the timeline of Genomics England (GEL): they […]
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Exploring Nanopore Sequencing for Human Genomes

Tonight, I started watching the Oxford Nanopore Technologies webinar on September 11, 2024. The title was “Unlocking comprehensive genomes for large-scale projects.” Dr. Karen Stewart moderated the event. Cora Vacher, Associate Director of Segment Marketing – Human Genetics with ONT, began by introducing “the era of complete genomes.” They spoke about the importance of Nanopore ultra-long reads […]
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