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Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaskan Conditions

Tonight, I watched Devin M. Drown from the University of Alaska Fairbanks present on “Testing the MinION Mk1D in Alaska.” Drown is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Institute of Arctic Biology Genomics Core. Drown is passionate about training, including doing MinION hackathons. Drown, like me, was excited to test the device. They […]
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From Troubleshooting to Streamlining

What a weekend! I am back from the NSF ENCOUR conference. I continued watching studio interviews from London Calling 2024. Tonight, the session I watched focused on pathogen surveillance and community and collaboration. Amanda Warr from The Roslin Institute spoke about learning to use Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) with metagenomic samples and troubleshooting in the […]
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ONT Learning: Metagenomics Planning

Tonight I started watching the ONT Learning sessions about Metagenomics. Tim Walker introduced options for metagenomics using nanopore sequencing. They defined metagenomics as “the genomic analysis of multiple organisms obtained from a single mixed sample.” The assembly of complete genomes and plasmids from mixed samples was one of several applications listed. Environmental monitoring and antibiotic […]
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