Thidathip Wongsurawat presented at London Calling 2025 on “Nanopore-based HLA testing: a rising star driving real-world clinical implementation in pharmacogenomics.” Wongsurawat is from Mahidol university in Thailand. Wongsurawat has been using nanopore sequencing since 2017 and moved back to her hometown after doing research in the US. Now they work with a company and set […]
Today, I watched another London Calling 2024 studio interview. Zoe McDougall interviewed three speakers. Tom Walsh from the University of Washington spoke about how long reads are important to determine intronic mutations. The full locus of BRCA1 is over 100 kb, and intronic mutations can occur with significant implications. Mike Clark from the University of […]
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 […]
Koen Deserranno from Ghent University in Belgium presented a lightning talk at London Calling 2023. The title was “Advancing targeted haplotyping in pharmacogenomics using adaptive sampling.” For example, they explained that pharmacogenomics studies the genetic impact on drug efficiency. There is a need for long-read sequencing for some pharco genes. The current pharmacogenomics information, Deserranno […]
Tonight I watched Dan Turner, SVP of Applications at Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) give an update from the applications team at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore. Turner talked about the applications team with researchers and groups in Singapore, the UK, and a couple other locations. Turner focused on Nanopore use for Pharmacogenomics (PGx). They […]
Tonight I watched the London Calling 2023 session entitled “Advancing targeted haplotyping in pharmacogenomics using adaptive sampling.” Koen Deserranno from Ghent University in Belgium spoke about their research. They are a pharmacist by training and are interested in pharmacogenomics (PGx): personalization of drug therapy based on genomic sequences of the individual. Deserranno spoke about how […]