Enhancing everyday microbiology workflows with easy-to-use, benchtop nanopore sequencing
Despite microorganisms being the most abundant and diverse forms of life on Earth, only a small percentage have been identified, let alone sequenced. In this webinar, you will hear from two researchers sharing their cutting-edge research and describing how they started using the Oxford Nanopore platform to have complete control of when, where, and how they sequence microbial samples.
To start, Aaron Pomerantz, Segment Marketing Manager at Oxford Nanopore, first introduced nanopore sequencing technology and the benefits it provides for microbiology research. Next Natalie Ring, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Roslin Institute, shared her talk ‘Close genomes, rearrangements, diagnostics and quality control’, where she discussed the rapid detection of bacterial infections in dogs using nanopore sequencing. Then finally, Richard Goodman, PhD Student at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, presented ‘From nanopore novice to nanopore ninja: a microbiologist’s guide to starting out in sequencing’, where he discussed the use of nanopore sequencing to elucidate mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and understand the complete genetic environment.
What will viewers learn?
- How nanopore sequencing is democratising genomics by enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere
- Real-world applications of nanopore sequencing in microbiology research and the journey to sequencing at the bench with Oxford Nanopore
- How nanopore sequencing is enabling discoveries for rapid pathogen identification and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance