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Endangered Birds and Influenza

I continued watching London Calling 2023 Daily Preview recordings. Zoe McDougall spoke with Loic Lesobre and Stephanie Banakis. Banakis is from NIAID, NIH and Lesobre is from Reneco International Wildlife. Lesobre is involved in large scale breeding and conservation efforts, while Banakis works with influenza. They spoke about the overlaps in their work. Banakis discussed […]
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Conservation Genomics Improvements with ONT

Tonight I watched the Question & Answer session of the Conservation Showcase from London Calling 2023. The moderator noted how each of the three panelists had very projects. Phoebe Oldach from Basecamp Research in the UK spoke about bioprospecting and not reinventing the wheel… improving discovery. Matthew Miller from Reneco International Wildlife Consultants in the United Arab Emirates noted […]
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Genomic Skimming on the MinION

I continue to watch Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 recordings and will spend some time later this week focusing on the London Calling 2023 Masterclasses. Tonight, I watched Joanna Malukiewicz from the German Primate Center present on “Genomic skimming on the MinION uncovers cryptic hybridization in the buffy-tufted marmoset, one of the world’s most threatened primates.” […]
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Org.one Collaborations for Sequencing Biodiversity

Tomas Marques-Bonet from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Spain presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Org.one: a new program to promote sequencing biodiversity.” Tomorrow London Calling 2023 begins and I am continuing to watch previous sessions. Marques-Bonet highlighted how biodiversity is at risk, with more than 37,400 species threatened with extinction. Amphibians […]
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