Tonight I watched the MAXDAYS session “Collaborating in MAXQDA: Best Practices for Teams.” Joel Drevlow from iQDAS Consulting. Drevlow noted that this session was based on a chapter they wrote in a publication by MAXQDA Press. Drevlow did a lot of program evaluation and survey analysis. Analyzing collaboratively, Drevlow explained, has several advantages: multiplicity of […]
Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 Public Health Showcase. Associate Director of Global Segment Marketing Aaron Pomerantz helped moderate the session. Lara Urban from Helmholtz AI in Germany was the first speaker. Urban described the connections between One Health Genomics and Nanopore sequencing. One Health Policy was addressed with air microbiome to assess the […]
Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 session on “Optimizing QC testing of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics.” Telmo Graca from Lonza, Switzerland, was the speaker for this session. They had learning objectives for the ten-minute talk. The three learning objectives focused on providing an overview of the requirements for mRNA therapeutics, the collaboration process between […]
The last London Calling 2024 studio interview recording was on equity and accessibility in science. Zoe McDougall asked speakers after the day what were the highlights. Ewan Birney from EMBL-EBI was excited about the impact sequencing is having in the clinic. Jasdeep Ghataora from the University of Bristol in the UK also spoke about the […]
What a weekend! I am back from the NSF ENCOUR conference. I continued watching studio interviews from London Calling 2024. Tonight, the session I watched focused on pathogen surveillance and community and collaboration. Amanda Warr from The Roslin Institute spoke about learning to use Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) with metagenomic samples and troubleshooting in the […]
Tonight, I watched the recording of Lucky Ronald Runtuwene from the University of Tokyo in Japan from London Calling 2019. Runtuwene is part of a sequencing core at a university campus. They have several Illumina devices and a PromethION. Their goal is to expedite research in developing countries. They started a collaboration with Indonesia, starting […]
Continuing with the Human genome sequencing and analysis course, today I watched the video lesson on “Library preparation: Quality control of input DNA or RNA.” Hazel Johnson, a Technical Services Team member at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, explained that incorrectly quantifying DNA can result in reduced sequencing input. They do not recommend the use of NanoDrop […]
Rajesh Pandey from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in India presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Genomic surveillance for future pandemic preparedness.” The lab does integrative genomics of host-pathogen interactions focusing on high-throughput and high-priority sequencing while trying to maintain cost efficiency. They have a sample to sequence microlab workflow using […]
Tonight I watched the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 recording featuring Areeba Patel and titled “Rapid-CNS2: rapid, comprehensive adaptive nanopore sequencing of central nervous system (CNS) tumours.” Patel is at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany. Patel spoke about the use of molecular diagnostics for CNS tumors. They noted the […]
Miles Benton from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research in New Zealand spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Affordable GPU compute makes nanopore sequencing even more disruptive and empowering.”Benton is a senior scientist, bioinformatician, and an advocate of open, reproducible science. They share their materials on GitHub. Benton spoke about the birth […]