Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology: 15 – 17 May 2013
The awesome ABPHM meeting is back in 2013! This is a really nice conference that I am very happy to help organise. It’s a bit different from other public health microbiology conferences in that it specifically aims to bring together public health microbiologists and epidemiologists with bioinformaticians. Once we have everyone in the same room, [...]
Whole-genome sequencing for MRSA epidemiology: Transmission and “clouds of variation”
It’s an unusual sensation to wake up in the morning and hear Moira Stewart on the Radio 2 breakfast show talking about bacterial genomics and whole-genome sequencing. But it wasn’t a lucid dream, the publication of a new paper from Simon Harris and Sharon Peacock (of Cambridge University and the Sanger Centre, respectively) in Lancet [...]
Would you be interested in attending a regular, informal meeting on sequencing and bioinformatics in the Midlands?
Something I’ve wanted to do for ages in the Midlands since being inspired by Scotland’s excellent Nextgenbug series, please register below if you are interested:
UK Next Gen Sequencing Meeting 2012 – Loads of good talks
Shameless plug alert, I promise I’ll get back to more in-depth blogging sometime soon! If you haven’t already, please register for the UK NGS Meeting 2012 held in Nottingham, UK on August 28-30. This is the third incarnation of this relaxed meeting which has a diverse cross-section of NGS talks. There are particularly strong talks [...]
SBTM12: Sequence-based typing methods for micro-organisms
I’m going to be helping out with teaching the NGS-related aspects of this course which might be interesting to you if you are thinking about using whole-genome sequencing for bacterial typing. Keith Jolley will also be there, talking about his software BigsDB software and his new rMLST method for bacterial typing. The best news is [...]
Benchtop Sequencer Comparison paper
In case you haven’t seen our recent paper, you can download the paper here (subscription required): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2198 Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms Nature Biotechnology advance online publication published online 22 April 2012 Nicholas J Loman, Raju V Misra, Timothy J Dallman, Chrystala Constantinidou, Saheer E Gharbia, John Wain & Mark J Pallen Here is a press [...]
All the Tweets from #MMGC 2012
Rapid Next-Generation-Sequencing Conference for Public Health and Clinical Microbiology was held in Münster last week. The title is pretty self-explanatory. It is probably the first meeting since last summer’s E. coli outbreak in Germany to allow epidemiologists, microbiologists and genomicists to get together and discuss the impact the rapid release of genome data had on [...]
2011: Review of a Remarkable Year
2011 has been a remarkable year for me, during which I have travelled widely, met lots of interesting people, recruited substantial grant funding and had a paper published in the journal with the highest impact factor of them all! So, at the risk of producing one of those cheesy round-Robin letters that get stuffed in [...]