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Fungi and Dog Skin

I started watching London Calling 2019 sessions to learn about fungal genomics and assembly. Sara D’Andreano from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain gave a “lightning talk” on “MinION application: performing long-fragment analysis on pure fungal cultures (3.5 kb and 6 kb) and genome analysis of Malassezia pachydermatis.” D’Andreano is a Ph.D. student working […]
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The Applications of the Suitcase Lab

Tonight I watched a London Calling 2023 session by Ahmed Abd El Wahed from Leipzig University in Germany. The title of the session is “Pathogen and species identification using a mobile suitcase laboratory,” which aligns nicely with the course I am teaching: Portable Genome Sequencing (PGS). The recording had videos outside highlighting the suitcase lab. […]
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Reticulatus

Samuel Nicholls from the University of Birmingham in the UK presented at London Calling on “Long-read nanopore metagenomics for reconstruction of bacterial genomes.” They spoke about the impact of microbial communities on human health and the difficulties we encounter trying to culture some microbes. Nicholls and team published a study sequencing the Zymo mock communities. […]
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Ultra-long Reads for Sea Snake, Lizard, and Dragon Genomes

I have been reading about the Ultra-long Sequencing Kit from Nanopore to try it this summer. Tonight I found the Ultra-long Reads YouTube playlist from ONT. I watched the session by Jillian Hammond from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia. They presented on the use of Ultra-long Reads for Australian Reptiles. They noted […]
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Fungal-Bacterial Interaction Screens and Plant Pathogens

Manuel Anguita Maeso, a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the CSIC in Spain, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021. The session’s title was “Unravelling the whole genome of olive antagonist xylem-inhabitant bacteria to fight vascular plant pathogens in olive trees.” I had watched this session previously and wanted to learn […]
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Characterization of Genetically-modified Microorganisms

Jolien E’aes from Sciensano in Belgium presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021. The title of the presentation is “Characterization of genetically modified microorganisms is facilitated by long-read whole-genome sequencing.” I don’t think I have watched this session before! D’aes explained how Sciensano, the Belgian Institute for Public and Animal Health. They focus on food […]
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AMRs in Complex Environmental Matrices

Rob James from the University of Warwick in the UK presented a session titled “From amplicons to metagenomes: long-read sequencing the environment” at London Calling 2019. James spoke about complex environmental matrices such as soil, sediment, and excreta that are often impure and biologically and chemically contaminated. Different extraction methods are used depending on the […]
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A Nanopore-based Approach to Detect and Analyze Repeat Anomalies

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 […]
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Use of Long-read Sequencing in a Contract Food Laboratory

Andrzej A. Benkowski from Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories in Madison, WI, presented at London Calling 2023 a lightning talk on the “Practical uses of nanopore long-read sequencing in a high-throughput contract food laboratory.” They presented a few case studies from the contract lab. The first case study was from a client who experienced an increase in […]
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