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Genomic Surveillance of Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms with Long-Read Sequencing

Today was the first day of our IPERT Summer Workshops! I also started watching London Calling 2024 videos available on the YouTube channel. I began with the session titled “Genomic surveillance of multidrug-resistant organisms based on long-read sequencing.” Fabian Landman works at the Centre for Infectious Disease Control in The Netherlands and the Dutch National […]
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RAGE-seq and CITE-seq

Martin Smith from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia was mentioned in the London Calling 2019 session I watched yesterday. Today, I watched the recording of the 2019 London Calling session that Smith did on “Leveraging long reads for high-throughput multiomic analyses of cellular diversity in human tumours.” Smith wasn’t able to travel, […]
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Comparison of Different scRNA-seq Methods

Mike Clark from the University of Melbourne in Australia presented at London Calling 2019 on “Deep transcriptomic sampling with long-read single cell RNA sequencing.” Clark gave the first talk in the session and explained the power of expression profiles of single cells (scRNA-seq) to identify cell types and variations in gene expression. scRNA-seq can be […]
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Assembling Redwoods, Giant Sequoia, and a Fungus

“Sequencing and assembling the mega-genomes of mega-trees: the giant sequoia and coast redwood genomes” is the title of the session Steven Salzberg from Johns Hopkins University presented. I was curious why this session was classified as “Metagenomics.” Salzberg works on several different organisms. The project’s first results were released in April 2019, describing the genome […]
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Candida Clinical Isolates and Reference Genome

Per Aspera Adastra from the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston on “Using long-read sequencing to generate a case-specific reference genome for pathogen strain typing.” I had watched the longer session before and will watch this one to learn more! Aspera Adastra is a clinical […]
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Nanopore for Environmentally Friendly Cows

Elizabeth Ross from the University of Queensland in Australia presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore on “Revolutionizing agriculture: harnessing the power of nanopore sequencing in genomics.” They work in the Center for Animal Science focusing on improving production. Ross spoke about the growing population and limited resources. Ross explained that genomic breeding is […]
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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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