Mariana Corrales Orozco from EAFIT University in Colombia spoke at London Calling 2023 about “Revolutionizing biodiversity research: Oxford Nanopore sequencing for the rapid and accurate identification of endangered species.” They started with heat maps depicting species diversity and the challenges of identifying new species. Typically, an expert taxonomist examines a sample. This approach requires sacrificing […]
Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 product demo for “Analysing bacterial genomes – from species identification to AMR.” Stephen Rudd, Director of Bioinformatics Product at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT), shared their work on EPI2ME labs products. They have been developing EPI2ME Labs workflows for several years. These are pre-installed workflows that can help solve […]
Tonight I watched John E. Gorzynski and Sneha D. Goenka from Stanford University present at London Calling 2022. Their fifteen-minute presentation entitled “Accelerated identification of disease-causing variants with ultra-rapid nanopore genome sequencing” was packed with information even though it was an informal session. This was an in-person session last year. Gorzynski is a postdoctoral scholar […]




