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Omic Approaches to Sequence the Guar Plant

Elizaveta Grigoreva from Saint Petersburg State Forestry University in Russia presented at London Callling 2021 on “Whole-genome assembly of guar (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba [L.] Taub.) by second- and third-generation sequencing approaches.” The guar plant is native to India, Pakistan, and the US. It is a legume used in the oil industry as a gelling agent in […]
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Assembly of A Model of Plant Evolution

Issa Diop from the University of Zurich in Switzerland presented at London Calling 2021 on “Chromosomal-scale assembly of the liverwort Marchantia paleacea.” Diop discussed chloroplasts and endosymbionts before introducing Marchantia as a model of plant evolution. Marchantia has a haploid-dominant life cycle with a genome size of 280 Mbp. There are eight autosomes and 1 […]
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The Pangenome of Rice

I am starting the Assembly playlist from ONT tonight. Francois Sabot from France’s French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development spoke at London Calling 2021. They described the pangenome as the differences between two individuals in their genomes. The shared part is called the core genome, and the non-shared components are called the dispensable or […]
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Digesting and Sequencing Stromatolites

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 […]
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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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Boxwood Blight Detection

Marcela Aguilera Flores from Virginia Tech presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2019 on “Culture-free detection of boxwood blight to improve disease diagnosis and prevention.” Aguilera Flores spoke about the use of the MinION for metagenomics to detect the fungi that cause blight in the boxwood. According to Aguilera Flores, boxwood is an important ornamental […]
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Sampling Methods in the Arctic

Eric Bortz is a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Bortz presented at London Calling on “MinION Below Zero: sequencing microbes and marine mammals, birds, and the Alaskan coastal environment from low-quality samples, including whale snot”! What a title! I watched this session today to learn about the variety of samples they are sequencing. […]
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Astrobiology and Culture-based Science

Rebecca D. Prescott from the University of Edinburgh in the UK presented at London Calling 2019. The title of the session was ‘O na Hoku no na Kiu o ka Lani: Bridging genomics research and culture-based science education through astrobiology in Hawai’i.” Prescott started by mentioning that they represent a large team supported by numerous […]
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