The London Calling 2024 virtual platform is no longer available! So, tonight, I started watching the available YouTube playlists. The first consists of studio interviews. I watched the “LC24 Studio: Understanding Structural Variation, Population Genomics” session. Zoe McDougall interviewed presenters. Belen de la Morena from the University of Murcia in Spain spoke about their interest […]
Chris T.L. Chan from the Hong Kong Sanitorium & Hospital in China spoke at London Calling 2019 on “Long-read NGS guided preimplantation genetic testing for chromosomal structural rearrangement.” Chan presented a clinical scenario. They explained that short-read sequencing allowed the analysis of copy number variation from blood samples. Loss of copy can be identified with […]
Tonight, I watched Kimmo Palin from the University of Helsinki present at London Calling 2019 on “Retrotransposon variation in human genome and tumorigenesis.” They began by discussing retrotransposons and describing them as “copy-paste elements” in the genome that copy themselves with an RNA intermediate. They range in size between 300 bp and 6,000 bp. LINE1 […]
Anna Dolnik from the Charite University Medical Center in Berlin, Germany, presented at London Calling 2019 on “Genomic profiling in acute myeloid leukemia with complex karyotype.” They presented data on the survival of over 5,100 patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The WHO in 2016 revised the classification of AML. A newly diagnosed AML patient, […]
Tonight, I watched Miten Jain’s London Calling 2019 presentation on “Generating high-quality reference human genomes using PromethION nanopore sequencing.” Jain is from the University of California, Santa Cruz. They have developed a framework to produce reference-quality human genomes in a week. Jain spoke about the need to sequence many human genomes that can serve as […]
Andrea Riposati from Dante Labs in the US presented at London Calling 2019 on “Human long-read whole genome sequencing: applications and results.” Riposati is the co-founder and CEO of Dante Labs. They presented a case of a patient who had suffered 45 years without a diagnosis. Dante Labs provided whole genome sequencing and pharmacogenomics lab. […]
My Linh Thibodeau from the University of British Columbia in Canada presented at London Calling 2019 on “Resolution of germline hereditary cancer structural variants using nanopore sequencing.” They began talking about the Personalized OncoGenomics Program (POG), which is an initiative of BC Cancer. The study enrolls participants and conducts extensive genomic analyses. The team evaluated […]
Yusmiati Liau from the University of Otago in New Zealand spoke at London Calling 2019 about “Nanopore sequencing of the CYP2D6 pharmacogene.” Liau explained that pharmacogenetics is used to learn about genes that affect responses to drugs. There is a standard nomenclature for pharmacogenetics. The PHarmVar database was used as an example. The CY2PD6 gene […]
Tonight I watched the EPI2ME updates from Matt Parker, Associate Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. We will use EPI2ME next week as part of the Portable Genome Sequencing course, focusing on bacterial genome assembly and metagenomics. This Nanopore Community Meeting Houston update started with a high-energy EPI2ME video highlighting updates to compute […]
Hagar Mor-Shaked from the Hadassah Medical Organization and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented a lightning talk at London Calling 2023. The title of the session is “Pathological short tandem repeats analysis by long-read sequencing in affected individuals.” They were also an employee of the Geneyx company that did genomic analysis. Mor-Shaked spoke […]