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Air Sampling and Metagenomic Sequencing

Christina Newman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston on “Metagenomic sequencing of air samples to identify human viral pathogens.” Newman spoke about the loss of resolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants with the increased use of home kits. Newman noted that indoor air sampling could be used in schools to […]
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Swab to Sequence in Space

Sarah Castro-Wallace from NASA spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston. The title of their session is “2043: A Minion Space Odyssey.” Castro-Wallace helped the audience think about a Martian habitat and using Nanopore devices to monitor crew health, planetary protection (“forward and back contamination”), and microbial surveillance. Importantly, Castro-Wallace wanted us to consider […]
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Data Analysis Options with ONT

Tonight I watched the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston session by Bryant Catano, ONT Product Specialist. The session was a Masterclass entitled “How to get started with data analysis.” Catano spoke about the variety of options for data analysis available, from point-and-click to command line. Tools are available that are accessible, scalable, and versatile. Catano noted […]
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A Guide to Structural Variation Analysis

Today I watched the Knowledge Exchange session from Nanopore Learning about “A beginner’s guide to structural variation analysis: from discovery to basic annotation.” Steven Rudd, a bioinformatics expert at Oxford Nanopore Technologies, shared a couple of slides and then explored the structural variation tutorial. A structural variant (SV), Rudd said, is typically considered as “a […]
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The Journal of Research in Learning Technology

Saturdays are always full of… emotions and cleaning! Tonight I watched another ALT 2021 session entitled “Getting published in ‘Research in in Learning Technology’: A Workshop with the editors” with speakers: Sarah Honeychurch, James Brunton, and Louise Drumm – all professors and editors. They are all editors for the journal Research in Learning Technology. Honeychurch […]
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CUREs in 2020

Last June, Dr. Erin Dolan and CURENet and ASCB hosted a webinar about how course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE) were taught during the pandemic. This webinar is available on the ASCB YouTube channel. The panel included: Dr. Katelyn Cooper, University of Central Florida Dr. Lauren DePue, University of Texas – Austin Dr. Enid Gonzalez- Orta, […]
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SoTL… and SoAD and SoLC!

Professor Emeritus Milt Cox from Miami University of Ohio presented a recorded Lilly Conference session about the commonalities and differences of three scholarships: Teaching and Learning, Academic Development, and Learning Communities. Cox has done extensive scholarly research and is editor of a Scholarship of Learning Communities journal. Cox compared the processes of the three scholarships […]
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