Event overview
Hear about the latest technical updates from Oxford Nanopore Technologies as well as talks from local scientists about their latest work using nanopore technology.
The morning session of this Nanopore Day will focus on plant, animal and microbiology topics with the afternoon session covering human and RNA themes. Please register for the sessions you want to attend using the buttons available on this page.
There will also be an opportunity to submit questions throughout the talks, which will be answered in the Q&A sessions following each presentation.
Please note that this is an in-person event.
There is no delegate fee for this event, but registration is required. Lunch will be provided and is available to all registered delegates. Your place at this event will be confirmed via email from events@nanoporetech.com.
Agenda
09:30 - 17:30 hrs CEST | Agenda (subject to change) | |
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09:30 - 10:15 hrs | Registration and coffee | |
10:15 - 14:00 hrs | Morning session (including lunch) | |
10:15 - 10:30 hrs | Welcome, introduction to Oxford Nanopore | Angelica Vittori, Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
10:30 - 11:00 hrs | Long-read tortoise conservation genomics | Luca Pandolfini, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia |
11:00 - 11:30 hrs | High quality racehorses genome assemblies pave the way to the horse pangenome construction | Massimo Delledonne, Universita di Verona |
11:30 - 12:00 hrs | Coffee break | |
12:00 - 12:30 hrs | An Urokinase-associated Outbreak of Ralstonia mannitolilytica in Haemodialysis patients in Friuli-Venezia Region: Molecular Analysis by Nanopore Whole Genome Sequencing | Annachiara Ghiotti, UCO Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, University of Trieste |
12:30 - 13:00 hrs | Evaluating targeted and metagenomic sequencing for routine microbiology service | Jonathan Edgeworth, Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, London |
13:00 - 14:00 hrs | Lunch | |
13:00 - 17:30 hrs | Afternoon session (including lunch) | |
14:00 - 14:30 hrs | Oxford Nanopore Technologies applications update | Libby Snell, Oxford Nanopore Technologies |
14:30 - 15:00 hrs | Third-Generation Cytogenetic Analysis: Potential Diagnostic Application of Long-Read Sequencing | Pamela Magnini, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna |
15:00 - 15:30 hrs | New diploid human genome reference of widely used laboratory cell line supports isogenomic mapping of multi-omics data | Simona Giunta, Universita La Sapienza |
15:30 - 15:45 hrs | Coffee break | |
15:45 - 16:15 hrs | Deciphering the transcriptional landscape of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes coupling short and long read sc-RNAseq | Beatrice Bodega |
16:15 - 16:45 hrs | Testing tools and pores: an update on ONT direct RNA technologies | Dr. Logan Mulroney, CGS@IIT / EMBL-EBI |
16:45 - 16:55 hrs | Spotlight talk: HLA genotyping of class II alleles in patients with narcolepsy using nanopore sequencing | Luca Morandi, University of Bologna |
16:55 - 17:05 hrs | Spotlight talk: Exome sequencing on Nanopore technology: from bench to bedside | Valentina Favalli, 4bases Italia srl, Pavia |
17:05 - 17:15 hrs | Spotlight talk: Detection of ribonucleotides embedded in DNA by Nanopore sequencing | Lavinia Grasso, Università degli Studi di Milano |
17:15 - 17:30 hrs | Closing remarks | Angelica Vittori, Oxford Nanopore Technologies |