Mikhail Kolmogorov from the National Cancer Institute, NIH, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston about “Nanopore sequencing reveals structural heterogeneity in canine osteosarcoma.” Structural variants are any alterations greater than 50 bp. These events can affect one or multiple genes… or whole chromosomes! NCI has a comparative osteosarcoma (OS) program that recruits dogs nationwide. […]
Bradley Hall from Asuragen presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston. The session was titled “AmplideX PCR and nanopore sequencing for accessible carrier screening for any lab.” Hall started by stating that “everyone is a genetic carrier of a disease or condition.” There are >2000 conditions, and carrier screening is often challenging for some […]
Mariela Cortes Lopez from the Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Houston about “GoT-Splice: unraveling cell-type-specific impact of splicing factor mutations.” Cortes Lopez is investigating mutations in splicing factors. They started by explaining that cells accumulate mutations with age and, therefore, the genomes of cells are […]
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 […]
Tonight, I watched the video for Kimberlee Musser’s session at the Nanopore Community Meeting Houston 2023. Kimberlee Musser works at Wadsworth Center in the New York State Department of Health. The session’s title is “Improving bacterial disease public health testing with nanopore sequencing.” Musser represents the work of many scientists from the Wadsworth Center, New […]