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Population Genomics and Gene Expression in Bullhead Benthic Fish Melanoma

Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 session by Julie Dragon from the University of Vermont. The title was “Shining Light on a Dark Mystery: melanoma in Bullhead Benthic Fish in Lake Memphremagog.” Dragon stated the problem: melanoma is found consistently in 30% of one species of fish in one lake! The brown bullhead is […]
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eDNA Monitoring and Jellyfish

Cheryl L. Ames from the US Naval Research Laboratory presented at London Calling 2019 on “Field-forward sequencing with Oxford Nanopore technology – a strategy to establish the upside-down mangrove jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana as a bioindicator.” They emphasized the biodiversity of the ocean is largely unexplored… and also threatened by climate change and overfishing. Environmental DNA […]
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Rich Activated Sludge Communities

Caitlin Singleton from Aalborg University in Denmark presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2020 a session on metagenomic analyses titled “From MAGs to riches: exploring the microbial community of activated sludge using 1,083 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes.” Singleton is a postdoc and explained why activated sludge is important. Activated sludge is used to treat wastewater to […]
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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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Tilapia, ISKNV, and Tiled PCR

Shayma Alathari from the University of Exeter was the next presenter at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2022 that I watched present. Their five-minute session was very brief, and packed with information. The title of Alathari’s session was “Development and application of genomic tools for tracking viral outbreaks in fish.”Alathari is a Ph.D. student interested in […]
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