#TGIF 🎶 happy almost-weekend, everyone! We are just 3 sleeps away from our #LIPNsymposium 2024! Everything is ready and we're so excited to have you all! Registration on Monday is bright and early from 8.30-9.00 (plus coffee ☕🥛) The Francis Crick Institute ! More details ⬇️

For those who weren't able to make the brilliant second annual @LondonPostdoc symposium, an event organised by Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for ECRs this year, don't worry, we've got you covered. Read about the event in our latest blog here microb.io/3WbpMU8 👩‍🔬🧫

Our work evaluating metagenomics and targeted approaches for diagnosis and surveillance of viruses is now out in Genome Medicine! UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Genomics to Enhance Microbiology Screening BTRU UCL Population Health Sciences genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

📣Our next LIPN ECR seminar will be happening on the 24th Oct st Imperial College! Come and hear from Kelly da Costa from University of Kent and @DBrokatzky from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine about their science! Networking refreshments afterwards. Register here: shorturl.at/oK29T

We have a fully funded computational PhD project available in our lab at Institute of Child Health UCL, examining how we can combine metagenomics and host transcriptomics to enable better diagnosis/stratification of infectious illnesses. Deadline 13th of December (see below)

📣 2 more sleeps to our last seminar this year! We'll see you there! (Register here if you haven't yet: shorturl.at/mNmce )

Hear! Hear! Our next seminar will be on 13th Feb at the Blizard Institute. Sean Carlson from Queen Mary University of London and Anna McNaughton from University of Bristol will tell us about fungi and HBV! Don't miss it, register here: tinyurl.com/ymfhsbea Come for the science, stay for the networking social!

NEWS ALERT: Our 3rd annual LINE symposium will be on the 9th of June The Francis Crick Institute. Join for fantastic ECR-science, networking, a careers panel and so much more. Submit your abstract: shorturl.at/7KuXL Free registration: shorturl.at/wLyWY Details: shorturl.at/MyWNl

🚨INCOMING! Join us for our next LINE seminar (9th of April) UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. We are excited to host Oscar Torres and Mohamed ElGhazaly to hear about metagenomics in diagnostics and how host/pathogens battle it out! Followed by a networking social! Register here:shorturl.at/kGmfh

Only one week to go! Don't forget to sign up! See you there for some exciting ECR-science followed by a networking social. Register here: shorturl.at/kGmfh

New preprint! We developed a fast method that allows the use of hybridization capture workflows with Oxford Nanopore without additional ligation-based steps! We validated our method using targeted viral metagenomics Twist Bioscience and Viral WGS Agilent Technologies medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Routine metagenomics are vital in protecting public health, yet current methods are slow. Tune in to Judy Breuer’s talk at #nanoporeconf to uncover their rapid method to detect pathogens from mixed microbial samples using Oxford Nanopore technology. bit.ly/4407LO9

Nanopore-based hybridization capture approaches for targeted viral metagenomics and whole-genome sequencing | medRxiv #nanoporeconf medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our community members then presented incredible Oxford Nanopore use cases, including Judith Brewer showcasing how rapid metagenomics is faster than standard microbiology for identifying respiratory infections and how new targeted methods increase sensitivity & speed for sterile sites

Join us! Postdoc Position – Development of rapid metagenomic workflows for diagnostics and surveillance (Lab-based position) Apply by July 9th. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions! ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se… UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

Only 3 days left to apply!

Clinical metagenomics for diagnosis and surveillance of viral pathogens. #ClinicalMetagenomics #Diagnosis #Surveillance #Genomics Nature Reviews Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4157…

'Rapid pan-microbial metagenomics for pathogen detection and personalised therapy in the ICU' Same day pan-microbial metagenomic testing to detect bacteria, fungi and DNA/RNA viruses has revolutionised the way we care for our sickest patients Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust Critical Care thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Implementing rapid pan-microbial metagenomics in paediatric intensive care medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv