Why not end the day with The Turtle Project! Tonight I watched a session from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) channel titled “The Turtle Project: Conservation epigenomics of endangered sea turtles with temperature-dependent sex determination.” Eugenie ‘Charley’ Yen from the Queen Mary University of London was the presenter. They started with a slide animation of […]
Gabriela Pozo from the University of San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston. The session’s title was “Obtaining reference genomes of emblematic and endangered Ecuadorian species.” Pozo noted that Ecuador is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries globally. However, conservation efforts are also needed. Genomics, noted Pozo, can […]
“Robbing the array to feed the pore: exploring ultra-fast brain tumor diagnosis” is the title of the session Dr. Simon Paine from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK presented at London Calling 2024. What a creative title! Paine is a clinical consultant and neuropathologist. Paine explained that neuropathologists are trying to predict tumor […]
Mrinalini Watsa from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance presented at London Calling 2024 a session titled “Into the unknown: portable sequencing empowers global conservation genomics.” I believe Watsa presented at a previous London Calling. They spoke about biodiversity loss and how we likely don’t know the true diversity. Watsa presented examples of amphibian genomic […]
Hazel Johnson, member of the Technical Services Team at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, presented the second video in the Nanopore Learning Human Genome Sequencing and Analysis course. They shared the range of products for sample preparation, instruments, and software offered by ONT. Johnson shared a graphic with the nanopore sequencing platforms. The Flongle is low cost […]
Continuing with London Calling 2023, today I watched The Daily Preview with interviews with Thidathip Wongsurawat, Jon Hale, and Matt Loose. The recording was only eleven minutes long. Zoe McDougall from ONT Communications interviewed them. Wongsurawat spoke about the bottlenecks in cancer genomics in Bangkok. They were excited about automated analyses and pipelines that streamline […]
Tonight I watched the March 2022 session with Cliv Brown explaining updates with Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). I wanted to watch this longer (~45 min) session as we get closer to new updates. Brown spoke about how Nanopore signal is information rich and new approaches using machine learning algorithms. They explained the Q20+ chemistry with […]