Designing custom workflows with EPI2ME for real-time Salmonella detection

Biography As a Bioinformatics Workflow Developer in the Customer Workflow team at Oxford Nanopore, Natalia creates and maintains workflows that help non-expert users to reliably analyse their data with minimal training. Our open-source workflows, implemented using Nextflow, allow life science researchers to go from raw reads to informative reports designed to help them make the most of their data. In particular, she is focused on the analysis of microbial communities through metagenomics data.

Biography Chao Chun Liu is a PhD candidate at the Simon Fraser University supervised by Dr. William Hsiao. His research interests lie in the application of advanced computational methods, including machine learning and graph structures to characterize the molecular evolution of bacterial pathogens. He concurrently works as a bioinformatics consultant for Prairie Diagnostic Services Inc. to advance the data analytics infrastructure required to support the application of nanopore sequencing technologies for monitoring animal health and the emergence of infectious diseases in real-time.