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Student Sampling of Contaminated Water Systems

Megan Radosevich from Carroll College presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Analyzing regional and seasonal microbial community variation from a contaminated Montana river.” Radosevich did work over the summer and during a course in Montana. The project is part of the Consortium for Research on Environmental Water Systems (CREWS). One of the main […]
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Multiple Enzymes and Beads for Longer Metagenomic Reads

Joshua Quick from the University of Birmingham in the UK has developed several Nanopore protocols and tools. Tonight I watched Quick present at London Calling 2019 on “The ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ and developing extraction methods suitable for long-read, ultra-deep stool metagenomics on the PromethION. Quick spoke about how they are studying fecal microbiome transplants for […]
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Metagenomics-based Infection Diagnostics

Justin O’Grady, Associate Professor in Medical Microbiology at the University of East Anglia, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2017 on “Rapid metagenomic diagnosis of hospital acquired pneumonia.” They spoke about the “loss” of effective antibiotics because of rising resistance. O’Grady suggests using metagenomics-based infection diagnostics to use narrow-spectrum antibiotics. Nanopore sequencing is useful because […]
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Circularizing Genomes

Dylan Maghini from Stanford University presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on “Genomes from metagenomes: assembling bacterial genomes with nanopore sequencing.” Maghini spoke about the importance of the human gut microbiome on human health. They noted that we still have an incomplete understanding of the gut microbiome. For example, de novo assembly aims to […]
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ONT Workflows for the GREGoR Project

Medhat Mahmoud from the Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston a session titled “Unraveling complex Mendelian diseases with nanopore sequencing.” They are in the Sedlacek lab and spoke about GREGoR: Genomics Research to Elucidate the Genetics of Rare Diseases project. GREGoR includes five research centers […]
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GoT-Splice as Mutations Accumulate

Mariela Cortes Lopez from the Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “GoT-Splice: unraveling cell-type-specific impact of splicing factor mutations.” Cortes Lopez is investigating mutations in splicing factors. They started by explaining that cells accumulate mutations with age and, therefore, the genomes of cells are […]
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Searching for Structural Variants of Interest in the 1000 Genomes Project

Gus Gustafson from the University of Washington spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “Understanding normal patterns of human structural variation with nanopore sequencing.” Gustafson is a second-year graduate student. They provided background, including these statistics: >50% of suspected Mendelian conditions remain undiagnosed after clinical testing, and up to 2/3 of structural variants […]
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Phylogeny Reconstruction of Melanoma Sublines

Yuelin Liu from the University of Maryland and the National Cancer Institute spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “Analysis of melanoma evolution using nanopore long-read sequencing data.” Liu spoke about melanoma and skin cancers. While melanoma makes up only about 2% of skin cancers, it is the most aggressive. Liu explained that […]
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