Tonight, I started watching the Oxford Nanopore Technologies London Calling 2024 expert panel on “Building a rapid, targeted, and responsive infectious disease system.”Aaron Pomerantz, the Associate Director of Global Segment Marketing at ONT, helped facilitate the session. Dr. Ines Hassan from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change started. Hassan helps encourage the development and […]
Tonight, I watched the recording of the Showcase Biosurveillance session at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2024. Ana Maria Niewiadomska, Segment Market Manager for Public Health with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, spoke to experts. Alex Kneubehl from Baylor College of Medicine spoke about his work on public health-related projects. Kneubehl and team have trained public health scientists […]
Tonight, I watched the London Calling 2024 Public Health Showcase. Associate Director of Global Segment Marketing Aaron Pomerantz helped moderate the session. Lara Urban from Helmholtz AI in Germany was the first speaker. Urban described the connections between One Health Genomics and Nanopore sequencing. One Health Policy was addressed with air microbiome to assess the […]
We are going to use the Nanopore NO-MISS workflow. It will be used to sequence several microbial isolates. This is part of the Portable Genome Sequencing course. In preparation, this London Calling 2024 session seemed useful. Alex Trotter, Development Scientist, and Chris Alder, Bioinformatician, are both at Oxford Nanopore Technologies. They presented “How to sequence […]
Tonight, I watched another series of London Calling 2024 studio interviews. Zoe McDougall spoke to three researchers. Carika Weldon from CarGenetics in Bermuda explained the healthcare research gaps. Heather Carleton from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained how poop samples can be used to detect outbreaks… including the idea of mobile sampling with […]
David Greig from Public Health England presented a session in London Calling 2019 with the title “Comparison of single nucleotide variants identified by Illumina and Oxford Nanopore technologies in the context of a potential outbreak of Shiga toxin producing.” They explained how they work on pathogen surveillance and focus on STEC: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. […]
Kimberlee Musser from the Wadsworth Center at the New York State Department of Health presented an update at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston 2023. Wadsworth Center is the largest state public health laboratory with 750 staff! The Wadsworth Center receives CDC and NIH funding and develops new assays. Musser explained that they have their in-house […]
Ahmed Abd El Wahed from Leipzig University in Germany talked at London Calling 2023 about “Pathogen and species identification using a mobile suitcase laboratory.” I have been thinking about this for a while and just today received an email from Bento Lab. El Wahed recorded the talk outside and next to the mobile suitcase lab. […]
Julie Karl & Robert Maddox from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “SARS-CoV-2 sequencing: on the midnight train to throughput.” They started with statistics from November 11, 2021 about global COVID-19 cases, including data from GISAID. The GISAID graph showed which countries had contributed to the database. Karl shared […]









