I continued watching the “Celebrating a decade of DNA discoveries: 10 years of the MinION in microbiology” ASM Microbe 2024 session. Matthew Keller, a Biologist with the Genomics & Diagnostics division at the Centers for Disease Control, was the last speaker. Keller’s team focuses on sequencing influenza viruses to monitor seasonal dynamics/surveillance. However, Keller noted […]
I’m back home! I watched the London Calling 2024 session “Mobile lab for rapid detection of pathogens in wastewater in sub-Saharan Africa” by Rea Kobialka from the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health in Germany. Kobialka demonstrated the setup of the mobile lab suitcase for wastewater analyses. The suitcase lab needs a mobile […]
Tonight, I started watching sessions from London Calling 2024! Rea Kobialka from the Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health in Germany presented a session entitled “Mobile lab for rapid detection of pathogens in wastewater in sub-Saharan Africa.” They emphasized the importance of surveillance. The research team developed a portable suitcase mobile lab. The […]
Ahmed Abd El Wahed from Leipzig University in Germany talked at London Calling 2023 about “Pathogen and species identification using a mobile suitcase laboratory.” I have been thinking about this for a while and just today received an email from Bento Lab. El Wahed recorded the talk outside and next to the mobile suitcase lab. […]





