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Air Sampling and Metagenomic Sequencing

Christina Newman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston on “Metagenomic sequencing of air samples to identify human viral pathogens.” Newman spoke about the loss of resolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants with the increased use of home kits. Newman noted that indoor air sampling could be used in schools to […]
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Exploring the Genetic Variants of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Sarah Dada from Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sequence Center and the University of British Columbia in Canada presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston. The title of the session is “Potential personalized diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder in the era of long-read sequencing.” They presented three cases and started by acknowledging the […]
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Assay Development for Bacterial Detection

Tonight, I watched the video for Kimberlee Musser’s session at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston 2023. Kimberlee Musser works at Wadsworth Center in the New York State Department of Health. The session’s title is “Improving bacterial disease public health testing with nanopore sequencing.” Musser represents the work of many scientists from the Wadsworth Center, New […]
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Sequencing to Study Telomere Dynamics

Tobias T. Schmidt from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston on “Telomere dynamics in aging and cancer by nanopore long-read sequencing.” Schmidt is a postdoc working on sequencing and described how telomeres protect the end of linear eukaryotic chromosomes. Telomeres shorten with every round of replication in […]
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Starting to Assemble Genomes

Eoghan Harrington and David Stoddard from Oxford Nanopore Technologies presented on December 18, 2018 about Assembly as part of the Nanopore Learning Knowledge Exchange series. They are both in the Applications group. Harrington started by sharing how they approach new assembly projects from planning to sequencing. They listed the steps: planning, sequencing, assembly, and quality […]
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Learner Voice for Health and Wellbeing

Tonight after our second day at the beach, I watched the CAST UDL Symposium session entitled “Tapping into Learner Voice to Maximize Health & Wellbeing” presented by Anne Bishop, Anne Marie DeGirolamo & Kasia Derbiszewska. They started the session with a poll asking participants whether they were heard during health and wellness visits. They shared […]
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A New Teaching Philosophy

Shannon Murray  from the University of Prince Edward Island, Jessica Riddell from Bishop’s University, and Lisa Dickson from the University of Northern British Columbia presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online. Their joint presentation was entitled “A ‘Back to the Studs’ Pandemic Teaching Philosophy.” Murray talked about how we all have teaching philosophies yet had to […]
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