pathogens

Detection of Pathogens from Aerosols at Wastewater Treatment Facilities

High E. Olsen from the University of California, Santa Cruz presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Detecting SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in aerosols at wastewater treatment plants.” The title is really intriguing! Wastewater, Olsen said, is a catalog of human pathogens and also a source of aerosols because of the aerators used. The […]
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Olive Trees, Bacteria, Fungi, and High-throughput Screens

Manuel Anguita Maeso, a Ph.D. student, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 a short session entitled: “Unravelling the whole genome of olive antagonistic xylem-inhabiting bacteria, to fight vascular plant pathogens in olive trees.” Anguita Maeso is from the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, in Cordoba, Spain. They began with an introduction to the two […]
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