Gabriela Pozo from the University of San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston. The session’s title was “Obtaining reference genomes of emblematic and endangered Ecuadorian species.” Pozo noted that Ecuador is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries globally. However, conservation efforts are also needed. Genomics, noted Pozo, can […]
Karla Estefania Rojas Lopez presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 a ten-minute session entitled “Draft genome of mortino (Vaccinium florib), a wild berry species of the Andean paramo.” Rojas Lopez works at the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador. This is the second session I watch presented by a researcher from this […]
Gabriela Pozo spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 about “Whole-genome sequencing of the Ecuadorian brown-headed spider monkey (Ateles fusciceps fusciceps), a critically endangered species. Pozo is from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Pozo mentioned that this is a diurnal primate, with a mostly ripe fruit diet and also mushrooms and insects, and […]




