London Calling 2026 - Speakers
Speakers
Check out the line up of speakers at London Calling 2026.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Adela Alcolea-Medina
- Job title
- Institution
- Synnovis, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UK
- Biography
Adela Alcolea-Medina is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Pathogen Sequencing at Synnovis and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. She trained in Pharmacy at the University of Valencia and specialised in Clinical Microbiology in Madrid, later achieving UK consultant equivalence. She completed a PhD at King’s College London, developing a novel human DNA depletion method for metagenomic sequencing. Her work underpins the NHS Respiratory Metagenomics Network and focuses on implementing nanopore sequencing for pathogen detection and outbreak investigation in clinical settings.
- Recent publications
Alcolea-Medina, A. et al. Rapid pan-microbial metagenomics for pathogen detection and personalised therapy in the intensive care unit: a single-centre prospective observational study. Lancet Microbe 6(10):101174 (2025).
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101174Alcolea-Medina, A. et al. Unified metagenomic method for rapid detection of microorganisms in clinical samples. Commun Med. 4:135 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s43856-024-00554-3Alcolea-Medina, A. et al.(2023). Variovorax durovernensis sp. nov., a novel species isolated from an infected prosthetic aortic graft in a human. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 73(12):006184 (2023).
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006184
Talks at this conference
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