Judith Breuer from the UCL Institute of Child Health in the UK presented at London Calling 2025 a session titled “How could we incorporate metagenomics into routine diagnostic microbiology?” Breuer defined metagenomics and explained how their work on rapid respiratory metagenomics. In the winter of 2024/2025, the group adapted their clinical metagenomics approaches for rapid […]
I spent the day at ECU at the QM Summit! It was a lot of fun! Tonight, I watched Nicole Wagner from Georgetown University present on “Evolutionary history of conical stromatolites.” This is the last video of the metagenomics playlist! Conical stromatolites can be used to study their formation and used to learn about microbial […]
Tonight I watched the entire London Calling 2023 Showcase Stage on Conservation. The first speaker was Luca Pandolfini from the Italian Institute of Technology in Italy who presented on “From genome assembly to epigenome characterisation: a nanopore journey in the footsteps of an endangered tortoise.” I remember this session! They worked on Pyxis arachnoides, a […]