09:00-09:20 Registration and Coffee
09:20-09:30 Welcome & CTU Introduction – Dr. Courtney Ward, CTU Manager
09:30-10:00 Zarmena Khan (ONT), An Introduction to Nanopore Sequencing and Cancer Genomics
10:00-10:30 Prof. David Simpson (QUB), Exploiting the potential of Nanopore sequencing to enhance research at QUB
10:30-11:00 Matthew McCabe (Teagasc), Assessment of viral shotgun metagenomics with the MinION and Epi2ME for rapid untargeted diagnostics of viral pathogens in bovine respiratory disease cases
BREAK
11:15-11:45 Dr. Stephen Bridgett (QUB), ARTIC SARS-CoV-2 Workflow
11:45-12:15 Hannah Coutts (QUB), The application of ONT for the detection of RNA modifications across
IAV transcripts
12:15-12:45 Gabriel Gonzalez (NVRL), Nanopore sequencing for virus surveillance
12:45-13:15 Michael Glenn (QUB), Applications of nanopore for bacterial WGS and 16S metagenomics
13:15-13:30 Closing remarks/Questions
