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Evaluating Hospital Infection Transmission with Nanopore Sequencing

Samuel Shelburne from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston. The session’s title was “Use of Oxford Nanopore sequencing to evaluate potential transmission of hospital infections.” Shelburne began by discussing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which are among the top ten leading causes of death in the US! Infection Prevention […]
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DNA Extraction Techniques: Bead Beating vs Enzymatic Lysis

We hosted a bioinformatics workshop with Oxford Nanopore Technologies specialists! It was fun to learn about EPI2ME updates. Tonight, I watched the beginning of a new Knowledge Exchange session focusing on “Sequencing and analysis of nanopore-only microbial isolates with the NO-MISS workflow.” The webinar began with a review of the applications related to microbial isolate […]
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Completing Genomes of Bacterial Isolates from Outbreaks

Erin L. Young from the Department of Health and Human Services in Utah presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston on “Nanopore sequencing for enhanced antimicrobial resistance gene surveillance.” I had watched Young present previously. They spoke about using whole genome sequencing (WGS) for surveillance and its use by the Centers for Disease Control. […]
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Assay Development for Bacterial Detection

Tonight, I watched the video for Kimberlee Musser’s session at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston 2023. Kimberlee Musser works at Wadsworth Center in the New York State Department of Health. The session’s title is “Improving bacterial disease public health testing with nanopore sequencing.” Musser represents the work of many scientists from the Wadsworth Center, New […]
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