London Calling 2024 - Speakers
Speakers
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Kimberley Billingsley
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- Job title
- Institution
- National Institutes of Health, USA
- Biography
Kimberley Billingsley is leading the Long-Read Sequencing team at the NIH’s Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias. Her work focuses on generating large-scale, high-value datasets to study the impact of structural variants and tandem repeats in neurodegenerative diseases. Kimberley obtained her PhD from the University of Liverpool, studying the role of transposable elements in Parkinson's Disease.
- Recent publications
Kolmogorov, M. et al. Scalable nanopore sequencing of human genomes provides a comprehensive view of haplotype-resolved variation and methylation. Nat. Methods 20:1483–1492 (2023). DOI:10.1038/s41592- 023-01993-x
Genner, R. et al. Assessing methylation detection for primary human tissue using nanopore sequencing. bioRxiv. (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.29.581569