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Basecamp Research Expeditions to Identify Novel Proteins

The London Calling 2023 showcase stage on conservation included a four-minute recorded session that I watched tonight. Phoebe Oldach from Basecamp Research spoke about “Building a comprehensive knowledge graph of novel proteins with long-read metagenomic sequencing and global partnerships.” They began by describing the field of identifying new proteins. Oldach explained that there is a […]
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Wastewater Epidemiology in Rural and Low-Resource Settings

“Antimicrobial wastewater epidemiology in low-resource communities” was the title of William Strike’s London Calling 2023 session. They are in the University of Kentucky and began their work on campus doing SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. They expanded their work to rural Kentucky. Strike explained that transporting wastewater from low-resource communities is difficult. They set up a BSL-2 van […]
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Which ONT library prep kit do I choose?

Akelia Wauchope-Odumbo, a Technical Services Manager – Americas with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), led a Masterclass at London Calling 2023. I watched the recording tonight, as the session title aligns with the course goals for the ONT-based lab I am designing: “How to get started with nanopore sequencing and plan your experiment.” The session started […]
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CyclomicsSeq

jeroen de Ridder from Cyclomics and the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands presented “CyclomicsSeq: targeted and genome-wide detection of circulating tumor DNA using nanopore consensus sequencing” at London Calling 2022. They spoke about monitoring of treatment response and disease recurrence and avoiding invasive procedures. For this, they focused on cell-free tumor DNA: cfDNA […]
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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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Mixing, Resequencing, and Deconvoluting

Alejandro Gener from the Association of Public Health Laboratories & Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratories, presented at London Calling 2022. Gener presented on “Assembly deconvolution resolves SARS-CoV-2 haplotypes in Delta-Omicron co-infections.” They described that between December 2021 and January 2022 Delta and Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2 were circulating. Public health labs had to rule […]
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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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