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Acute Leukemia Classification Using Machine Learning

Salvatore Benfatto from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute presented at London Calling 2025 on “Rapid epigenomic classification of acute leukemia.” Benfatto started with a clinical case of a sixty-one year old female patient with intermittent fevers, fatigue, and leukocytosis. Multiple tests had to be run in parallel, including flow cytometry, karyotyping, immunohistochemistry… The process is time […]
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Innovating Education: Insights from Quality in Action Sessions

Dr. Jennifer Culver, the Community Engagement Manager at Quality Matters (QM) wrapped up the Quality in Action sessions. Culver noted that you can’t have innovation and continuous improvement without innovation. Attendees spoke about the ideas shared and potential. AI simplifies the creation of scenarios and also brings challenges. The generative tools can help create cases, […]
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How Instructional Designers Utilize Generative AI in Education

Dr. Swapna Kumar, Clinical Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Florida prsented with Margeaux Johnson, Learning & Organizational Development Specialist at UF, and Ariel Gunn, Instructional Designer at Johns Hopkins University. Their session at the Quality Matters (QM) Quality in Action focused on “How Instructional Designers Support the Integration of GenAI in Online […]
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Cultivating Innovation Through Reflective Practice in Education

Dr. Emma Zone, Senior Director of Academic Affairs at D2L, presented at the Quality Matters (QM) Quality in Action conference. The title of the session was “Beyond Self-Assessment: Cultivating an Innovation Mindset Through Reflective Practice.” Zone explained that “reflective practice is a method of critically analyzing experiences to gain insights and enhance future actions” and […]
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Celebrating ASM Carski Award Winners and Their Impact

Tonight, I watched Stanley Maloy, Editor-in-Chief of JMBE, host a conversation at ASM Microbe 2022 in DC. This was a conversation with four ASM Carski Award winners: Nancy Boury, David Westenberg, Mark Martin, Loretta Brancaccio-Taras, about their insights into excellence in undergraduate teaching. Westenberg spoke about about student success as part of the reason why […]
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Structural Variant Detection and Analysis

Continuing with the Nanopore Learning course on Human Genome Sequencing and Analysis, tonight I watched the video about structural variation detection. Anthony Doran, a member of the Technical Services Team with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, defined structural variation as large structural changes in your sample compared to the reference genome. The examples Doran shared on a […]
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Inactivation of X Chromosome

Tonight I watched Quentin Gouil from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia speak at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore about “Measuring skewed X inactivation by adaptive nanopore sequencing.” Gouil explained that there are ~2000 genes on the X chromosome, and males are more affected by X-linked diseases. They described […]
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Myrtle Rust and Epitranscriptomics

Ashley Jones from The Australian National University in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore on “Exploring post-transcriptional modifications during myrtle rust pathogen-plant interactions.” Myrtle rust is a biotrophic (needs a living plant to survive) fungus Austropuccinia psidii that infects plants in the Myrtaceae family and is spreading, according to Jones. Myrtle rust […]
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Nanopore for Environmentally Friendly Cows

Elizabeth Ross from the University of Queensland in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore on “Revolutionizing agriculture: harnessing the power of nanopore sequencing in genomics.” They work in the Center for Animal Science focusing on improving production. Ross spoke about the growing population and limited resources. Ross explained that genomic breeding is […]
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Sequencing Improvements for Diagnosis of Acutely Unwell Children in the UK

Emma Baple from the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust & the University of Exeter spoke at London Calling 2023 about “Empowering NHS rapid diagnostic testing with long-read sequencing.” They explained how rapid genetic tests for acutely ill children with rare diseases is critical, and they shared some intriguing statistics about the prevalence of […]
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