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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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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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Nanopore Sequencing and Bacterial Disease Public Health Testing

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 […]
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Early Warning: Every Second Counts

Erik Karlsson from the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge in Cambodia, presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore 2023 on “Advances in rapid, accurate, field-forward sequencing to respond to avian influenza virus at the animal-human interface.” Their work focuses on warning and detection systems to detect infectious diseases. Karlsson noted that active surveillance is expensive […]
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Use of ONT by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Ji Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Singapore this year on “Application and history of nanopore sequencing in helping China’s CDC system.” They described extensive network of the CDC in China with 3,000 units. Wang shared data from a survey of lab […]
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Surveillance Efforts in New Zealand

Joep de Ligt from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR) in New Zealand presented at London Calling 2023 a session entitled “The value of real-time, long-read sequencing for public health.” They talked about how they developed technologies during the COVID pandemic. The ESR uses genomics for public health. de Ligt described how […]
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Capacity Building and Surveillance in Senegal

Abdou Padane from the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training (IRESSSEF) in Senegal, spoke at the Nanopore Community MEeting 2021 about the “Molecular distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in Senegal.” Padane is a medical researcher, doctoral student, and manager for the BSL3 lab! They noted that Senegal is a West African country with free movement […]
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Use of Oxford Nanopore Technologies for Microlab Development

Rajesh Pandey from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in India presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Genomic surveillance for future pandemic preparedness.” The lab does integrative genomics of host-pathogen interactions focusing on high-throughput and high-priority sequencing while trying to maintain cost efficiency. They have a sample to sequence microlab workflow using […]
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Starting Graduate School in a Sequencing Laboratory

Hannah Trivett from the University of Liverpool is a doctoral student who presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021. The title of the presentation was “Highlights of a regional sequencing surveillance hub during a global pandemic.” They described the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium involved in a massive sequencing initiative. The University of Liverpool is involved, […]
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